To T. H. Huxley 21 February [1868]
Summary
THH’s offer to read proof of essay on man encourages CD to write with satisfaction instead of a vague dread.
Begs Mrs Huxley not to forget corrugator supercilii in a crying child.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 260) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5408 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks WBT for tabulation of sex ratios in racehorses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5906 |
To H. T. Stainton 21 February [1868]
Summary
Discusses factors possibly influencing the sex of caterpillars. Is gathering information on sex ratios in insects and would welcome any cases in which males seem to outnumber females.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5907 |
To Roland Trimen 21 February [1868]
Summary
RT’s argument about the Lasiocampa strikes him as very good; asks for any similar cases. Wonders whether male butterflies may serve more than one female.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5908 |
From H. W. Bates 21 February 1868
Summary
Comments on J. O. Westwood’s entomological nomenclature.
Discusses the organs for stridulation in Orthoptera [see Descent 1: 352ff].
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A32–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5909 |
From Robert McLachlan 21 February 1868
Summary
On numerical proportions of sexes in insects; coloration. Dimorphism in dragonflies (Agrion) in which usual coloration is reversed in sexes [see Descent 1: 362–4].
Wallace seems to ride his hobby too hard.
| Author: | Robert McLachlan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A8–9, DAR 82: A88–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5910 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Stainton, H. T. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
| Stainton, H. T. | (1) |
2.21 Montford, relief at Christ's College
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< Back to Introduction An oval bronze plaque with a relief portrait of Darwin by Horace Montford is at Christ’s College, Cambridge, the college where Darwin had been an undergraduate. It is likely to have been based on one of the many photographs of…
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Chirk Castle, Wales
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A 'steady stupid old matron'
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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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