To Philip Lutley Sclater 28 February [1868]
Summary
Bird specimens collected by Capt. P. P. King eventually went to British Museum, but many specimens were incorrectly marked.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.345) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5948 |
To H. T. Stainton 28 February [1868]
Summary
Asks whether the colouring of particular butterflies has any protective function, to ascertain whether the function is other than sexual.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | E.W. Classey Ltd (dealers) (1974) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5949 |
To G. G. Stokes 28 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks GGS for information on the peacock’s feathers. Asks whether the colour zones around the "eye" could result from varying the thickness of the film of colouring matter or whether it would require different kinds of colouring matter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | CUL (Add MS 7656: D74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5950 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1868]
Summary
Does not understand JDH on Pangenesis: on last page he appears to admit all that he regards as mere words on previous pages.
Wallace admires chapter on Pangenesis.
Pangenesis is a comfort. CD gains no idea from words like "potentiality" or "diffusing an influence"; atoms and cells give a distinct idea.
A. Newton told George that Berthold Seemann wrote the Athenæum review
and that Lewis [Lewes] did not write the Pall Mall Gazette review [see 5874].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 55–7c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5951 |
From William Erasmus Darwin to Emma Darwin 28 February [1868]
Summary
Crying in babies.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5952 |
From Alexander Wallace 28 February 1868
Summary
Proportion of sexes in insects, captured and bred. [see Descent 1: 313.]
| Author: | Alexander Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B41–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5953 |
From W. S. Dallas 28 February 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for second issue of Variation.
Is glad CD is satisfied with his translation of Piderit.
Will not start on Müller [Für Darwin] until CD has communicated with the author.
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5955 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Wallace, Alexander | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
| Stainton, H. T. | (1) |
| Stokes, G. G. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
