To J. D. Hooker [4 March 1868]
Summary
Arrangements to dine at JDH’s club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13816 |
To Charles Lyell [9 March 1868]
Summary
Asks to borrow Philosophical Transactions, vol. 157, pt 2 (1868).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [9 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (KU MSS P87: 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5768 |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868]
Summary
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5830 |
To Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse [after 12 March 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse |
Date: | [after 12 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 39-40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5962 |
To Edward Hewitt [c. 22 March 1868]
Summary
Asks for facts relating to courtship of birds and especially cases of females preferring particular males.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Hewitt |
Date: | [c. 22 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5963 |
From J. J. Weir [before 3] March 1868
Summary
Aggressive behaviour of a bullfinch toward new arrival in JJW’s aviary.
Sexual differences in goldfinches: size of beaks.
Sexual selection in Lepidoptera.
Thinks Dr Alex Wallace’s observations on Bombyx not conclusive in proving that no preference is shown by females.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3] Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 51–2 and DAR 82: A107–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5964 |
From A. R. Wallace 1 March 1868
Summary
Offers enclosure demonstrating that natural selection could produce sterility of hybrids.
More on Pangenesis and the inadequacy of H. Spencer’s approach.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B49–50, B53–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5966 |
To Henry Doubleday 1 March [1868]
Summary
Has been interested in copy of HD’s letter to H. T. Stainton on numerical proportions of the sexes of insects. Do they vary during different years?
Does he have opinions about the courtships of butterflies?
Will send a copy of his paper on Primula when it is published. [See 5997.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Doubleday |
Date: | 1 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | George W. Platzman (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5966A |
To H. T. Stainton 2 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks HTS for his valuable information. Hopes to arrive at probable answer to question of proportion of males to females in the progeny of butterflies bred in domestication.
On courtship of butterflies, CD believes something more than chance is involved in determining which male is successful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
Date: | 2 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5967 |
From George Henry Lewes 2 March 1868
Summary
Is engaged on an article for Fortnightly Review on Variation ["Mr Darwin’s hypotheses", n.s. 9: 353–73, 611–28; n.s. 10: 61–80, 492–509]. Asks CD some questions.
While he agrees with natural selection, he believes many "organic details" develop irrespective of advantage.
Author: | George Henry Lewes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5969 |
From J. E. Gray 2 March 1868
Summary
Canine teeth in males are always larger than in females and certainly so in Cervulus moschus.
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 159–60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5970 |
From W. E. Darwin 3 March [1868]
Summary
Asks CD to collect from the Jermyn Street Museum a box containing a skull and bones which belong to Mr Cumberbatch.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5970F |
To J. E. Gray 2 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks JEG for answering questions so fully and clearly, especially as he is troubled with his eyes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 2 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | Winterbourne House and Garden, University of Birmingham (University Herbarium) (WBHERB.HST.L.25.1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5970G |
From J. D. Hooker [3 March 1868]
Summary
Now quite understands Pangenesis. Satisfaction given by it, as CD says, may depend on one’s mental constitution. In all cases of descent JDH has always thought "all the properties of the parents are transmitted in the one cell and were diffused to every part of the future offspring".
Tyndall believes he feels atoms as firmly as St Paul believed he saw Christ.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 204–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5971 |
From John Murray 3 March [1868]
Summary
JM offers a note for 400 guineas as author’s payment on sale of 1250 copies of 2d issue of Variation.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 357 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5972 |
From C. S. Bate 3 March 1868
Summary
Quotes information from Dr Power on colour of sexes of Crustacea in Mauritius [see Descent 1: 335].
Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A65–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5973 |
To William Sedgwick 4 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks WS for information about moss roses and the Le Compte family.
Mentions WS’s recent papers on inheritance [Brit. & Foreign Med.-Chirurg. Rev. (1867)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sedgwick |
Date: | 4 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.347) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5975 |
To C. S. Vesselofski 4 March 1868
Summary
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski |
Date: | 4 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 1. Register 2-1868. Folder 17. P65, 65 r) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5976 |
From Jonathan Peel 4 March 1868
Summary
Sends copy of a paper on his flock of sheep, which confirms much of what CD says in Variation,
together with a note he made of an instance of cattle "determining the existence" of a tree [cf. Origin, ch. 3].
Author: | Jonathan Peel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 96–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5977 |
To John Murray 4 March [1868]
Summary
Payment of 400 guineas [Variation royalties] delights CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 f. 36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5978 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (54) |
Weir, J. J. | (9) |
Wallace, A. R. | (5) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Trimen, Roland | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (66) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Weir, J. J. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |