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 |
From Edward Blyth 11 February 1868
Summary
Corrects some facts and gives further information on some points for the 2d ed. of Variation.
Specific distinctions among animals.
Cercopithecus of Africa contrasted with the Cebus of South America.
Notes on domestic fowls and their ancestors.
Slow growth of wild animals compared with domestic varieties.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B169a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5861 |
From Henry Holland 11 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for copy of Variation. Comments on it, especially on Pangenesis.
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 249 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5862 |
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 |
From Charles Spence Bate 11 February 1868
Summary
On the colours of sexes in Crustacea; the structure of male crabs.
| Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A57–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5864 |
From W. S. Dallas 11 February 1868
Summary
WSD is delighted to hear that first edition [of Variation] has sold so well.
Has received a cheque from J. Murray for 30 guineas, double what was agreed upon. Sends a postal order for the five guineas CD sent him [see 5788].
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5865 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
