To J. J. Weir 4 April [1868]
Summary
CD thanks JJW for the mine of information his last "ten!" letters contain. Comments on sexual display of pheasants and colour preferences of pigeons.
Asks about hens that pair earliest in spring and about possible existence of unpaired birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6090 |
To Edward Blyth 4 April [1868]
Summary
Glad to hear about colours of Hylobates.
Cannot find any statement about which digits in man are most subject to syndactylism in Isidore Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire]’s Histoire des anomalies [1832–7].
Asks questions concerned with seasonal and sexual changes in plumage of various bird species.
Does male woodpecker share in incubation?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6091 |
From M. T. Masters 4 April 1868
Summary
MTM did not write Gardeners’ Chronicle review of Variation [(1868): 184].
Encloses letters supporting a project [Botanical Congress?] to promote horticulture, and hopes CD will reconsider giving his support.
| Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6092 |
| letter | (3) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
