To W. B. Tegetmeier 17 [March 1868]
Summary
For experiment on effect of male beauty, pigeons should be coloured on the breast.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 17 [Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6017 |
To A. R. Wallace 17 [March 1868]
Summary
On his Primula paper for the Linnean Society ["On the specific difference between Primula veris, Brit. Fl. (var. officialis, Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. var. acaulis, Linn.), and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the hybrid nature of the common oxlip; with supplementary remarks on naturally produced hybrids of the genus Verbascum", [officinalis!?] J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].
Peacocks and sexual selection.
ARW’s sterility argument has driven CD’s sons half-mad.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 17 [Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 43434: 115–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6018 |
From J. V. Carus 17 March 1868
Summary
Some questions on errata in second English issue of Variation.
Sends a paper by Robert Hartmann on domestic animals of the countries bordering the Nile ["Geographische Verbreitung der im nordöstlichen Afrika wild lebenden Säugethiere" Z. Ges. Erdkd. Berlin 3 (1868): 28–69, 232–70, 345–68, 404–20].
Has thought much about CD’s theory of Pangenesis. It "seems rather a little too complicated … as a molecular theory".
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6019 |
From Jonathan Peel 17 March 1868
Summary
Proportions of male and female lambs.
| Author: | Jonathan Peel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6020 |
From W. S. Dallas 17 March 1868
Summary
Will start translating Für Darwin. Suggests it be called "A Lift for Darwin".
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6021 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Peel, Jonathan | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Peel, Jonathan | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
3.17 Lock and Whitfield, 'Men of Mark'
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< Back to Introduction The ambitious series of photographs of Men of Mark, published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to similar sets which had appeared in the 1850s and 1860s. This one was distinguished by its…
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4.52 'Wasp' caricature
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< Back to Introduction Less than a fortnight after Darwin’s death, an irreverent portrayal of him appeared on the cover of a Californian satirical magazine. The Wasp, based in San Francisco, resembled the better-known New York magazine Puck in its…
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- … 8:302 (12 May 1882), pp. 291, 299; 8:303 (19 May 1882), p. 317; 8:310 (7 July 1882), p. 419. These …
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
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- … (London: Thames and Hudson, 2003), pp. 26, 291–2, 317. Browne, ‘Looking at Darwin: portraits and the …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … genius…” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 316 – 317. 4) “Difference in the Mental Powers …
Darwin and Gender Projects by Harvard Students
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Working in collaboration with Professor Sarah Richardson and Dr Myrna Perez, Darwin Correspondence Project staff developed a customised set of 'Darwin and Gender' themed resources for a course on Gender, Sex and Evolution first taught at Harvard…
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- … between the child and the man” ( Descent 2: 317). Darwin believed, however, that although women …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … ofEngland and Wales. Pt 1. London, 1822. (DAR 35.1: 317). Darwin Library–Down. Cook, James. …
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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- … 1848] quoted in Braun Rejuvenescence [Braun 1853] p. 317 [DAR *128: 176] Moores …
