To J. D. Hooker 29 [March 1867]
Summary
Anxious for news about baby.
Will remember to save all foreign plants for JDH when he has finished experimenting with them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 [Mar 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5469 |
To William Ogle 29 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks WO for information on inheritance of deficient phalanges [Variation 2:73] and for interesting case of the occurrence of anomalous fingers and teeth in twins[Variation 2: 253].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 29 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 1 (EH 88205899) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5470 |
To Hermann Müller 29 March [1867]
Summary
Has learned that Fritz Müller is HM’s brother.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 29 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 428 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5471 |
From John Lubbock 29 March 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for information.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5472 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 29 March 1867
Summary
Answers CD’s queries about polygamous birds. Does not think appearance of cock makes any difference to female. Dyeing the male has no effect on female.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 30–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5473 |
From H. W. Bates 29 March 1867
Summary
Working on sexual differences in collection of horned beetles and will send CD results.
Answers CD’s questions [sent on behalf of Miss Tollet of Betley Hall, Staffs.] on mimicry – how it helps prevent extinction, the modifications occurring with a change of habitat until mimicry occurred.
Also gives some cases of sexual differences.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 95 (Letters) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5474 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … heard of ‘a few authentic exceptions’ ( Variation 2: 329), and still they kept coming . By …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … de la Provence [Darluc 1782–6] 8vo. 1782. Tom I p. 303 to 329 gives account of migratory sheep of …
