From C. S. Bate [17 February 1868]
Summary
On the proportion of sexes in crabs; coloration and structural differences.
| Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A61–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5826 |
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 |
From James Shaw 17 February 1868
Summary
Mentions review [of Variation] in the Athenæum [15 Feb 1868, pp. 243–4].
Comments on adaptive utility of the right hand, an organ still undergoing specialisation.
| Author: | James Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5884 |
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 |
From J. E. Gray 17 February 1868
Summary
JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].
Colouring in horses.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5886 |
From George Brettingham Sowerby 17 February 1868
Summary
Sends data from J. G. Jeffreys on the form of shells of the sexes of Mollusca. [See Descent 1: 324, 326.]
| Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A55–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5887 |
From William Farr 17 February 1868
Summary
Will gladly supply any information he can. Sends Registrar General’s reports; will inquire about the animals.
| Author: | William Farr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5888 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Gray, J. E. | (2) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Farr, William | (1) |
| Shaw, James | (1) |
2.17 Montford, statuette
Summary
< Back to Introduction Horace Montford reproduced the design of his seated statue of Darwin at Shrewsbury (1897) as a small bronze statuette. He lent the ‘original cast’ of the statuette to the Darwin Centenary exhibition at Christ’s College,…
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- … < Back to Introduction Horace Montford reproduced the design of his seated statue of …
The Mount, Shrewsbury
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Letters from home
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
The whale-bear
Summary
Darwin came to regard ‘bear’ as a ‘word of ill-omen’. In the first edition of Origin he told the story of a black bear seen swimming for hours with its mouth wide open scooping insects from the water ‘like a whale’. He went on to imagine that natural…
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- … the speculation on the bear & the whale, of which I dare say you have heard enough, simply …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … Accompanying the album was a handwritten list of the 217 people included, with their professional …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … 217 Zaaijer Dr. T. (Teunis) …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … 217 Zaaijer Dr. T. (Teunis) …
