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 |
From John Lubbock 12 February [1868]
Summary
Discusses [Fritz?] Müller’s confusion about ova and pseudova; JL’s Daphnia paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100; see 1979] first demonstrated their structural identity.
Points out a misleading statement in Variation.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5868 |
From John Murray 12 February [1868]
Summary
CD’s letter encourages Murray to proceed with a new edition of Variation; corrections will cost £176.
First notice has appeared in Pall Mall Gazette [7 (1868): 555].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171 : 355 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5869 |
From Charles Owen Waterhouse 12 February 1868
Summary
On blind beetles [see Descent 1: 367].
Development of mandibles in Brentus.
| Author: | Charles Owen Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A74–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5870 |
From John Blackwall 12 February 1868
Summary
Variability of sizes and colours in spiders; on proportion of sexes; courtship of spiders.
| Author: | John Blackwall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A78–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5871 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Blackwall, John | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Waterhouse, C. O. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Buckland, Frank | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Blackwall, John | (1) |
| Buckland, Frank | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Waterhouse, C. O. | (1) |
