To W. D. Fox 6 February [1868]
Summary
There is so much detail in Variation that WDF will never be able to finish it. Some chapters, like that on reversion, are "curious".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 6 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 148) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5842 |
To Asa Gray 9 February [1868]
Summary
Asks that Gray forward a letter to J. T. Rothrock. Variation is selling well. Nearly all chapters were at least partially written before Origin was published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 19, 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5851F |
To John Murray 9 February [1868]
Summary
Heartily glad for JM’s sake at sale [of Variation]. Thinks JM right to publish a smaller second edition, for "the public will soon find out that it is dull" – though scientifically valuable. The index is excellent. CD is "always greedy" for presentation copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 180–181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5854 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 February [1868]
Summary
Has heard that Variation sold the whole edition of 1500 copies in a week [see 5844]. Has done him a world of good. Pall Mall Gazette has review which pleased him exceedingly [see 5874].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 50–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5856 |
To Henry Walter Bates 11 February [1868]
Summary
Asks about proportions of male to female insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 11 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5858 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 11 February [1868]
Summary
Wants information on sex ratios in domestic animals. Can WBT help?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 11 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5859 |
To Fritz Müller 11 February 1868
Summary
Is working on sexual selection and is interested in any anomalous sex ratios in lower animals and any sex-related characters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 11 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5860 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 11 February [1868]
Summary
Requests information on published observations on the proportional number of males and females born to various domestic animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 11 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1868): 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5863 |
To Francis Trevelyan Buckland 12 February [1868]
Summary
CD is much interested in FB’s remarks in Land and Water on the apparent excess of male trout over females and asks for further information on other fish, birds, and domestic quadrupeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5866 |
To Roland Trimen 12 February [1868]
Summary
Is interested in the relative numbers of males and females of all animals; wants any instances of males, or females, being in excess.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5867 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 13 February [1868]
Summary
Asks whether mane in male of Macacus silenus protects it from bites or is merely ornamental.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 13 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.341) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5872 |
To B. D. Walsh 14 February 1868
Summary
Requests entomological data on sexual selection, especially proportions of sexes.
Sends Queries about expression with note: "a great hobby of mine".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 14 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5876 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 February [1868]
Summary
Is much obliged that WBT will undertake tabulation of sex ratios in racehorses, greyhounds, and cattle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 15 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5879 |
To John Lubbock 15 February [1868]
Summary
Returns Anthropological Review.
Asks to borrow Desmarest on Crustacea [Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés (1825)].
Has been reading JL’s address to the Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d. ser. 5 (1865–7): cxiii–cxxxi].
Would like to hear JL’s conclusion for or against Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 15 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Hutchinson 1914, 1: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5881 |
To B. D. Walsh 17 February [1868]
Summary
Has looked through BDW’s papers and finds heaps of facts on sexual differences. Asks questions on sexual differences in particular species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 17 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 12A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5883 |
To J. E. Gray 17 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
CD will call on JEG to hear his views on specific differences of pigs.
Does not know who has "cut me up so severely" in the Athenæum but suspects "your great man in the Museum" [Richard Owen].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 17 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 234) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5885 |
To B. J. Sulivan 18 February [1868]
Summary
CD thanks BJS for photographs of Jemmy [Button]’s son
and for the curious case about stallions, which leads him to ask whether BJS has observed that horses when fighting try especially to bite each other’s necks.
Does he know anything about male seals fighting?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 18 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5889 |
To Henry Tibbats Stainton 18 February [1868]
Summary
Asks for information on coloration and proportions of sexes in butterflies and moths for his work on sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
Date: | 18 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5890 |
To George Gabriel Stokes 18 February [1868]
Summary
Wants to know how the colour of the eye of the peacock’s tail is produced, whether it depends upon colouring matter in the feathers or reflection, and whether any varying structural change will account for the series of colours surrounding it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | CUL (Add 7656: D73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5891 |
To H. W. Bates 19 February [1868]
Summary
CD in utter confusion about differences between J. O. Westwood and HWB on division of certain insects. Asks if HWB will homologise certain families for him, telling him which terms would be most generally understood.
Asks also about differences on sound-producing organs of Achetidae Gryllidae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 19 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5895 |
Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
Weir, J. J. | (15) |
Wallace, A. R. | (14) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (11) |
Murray, John (b) | (10) |