From George Bentham [before 22 April 1868]
Summary
Has studied Variation with interest.
Cannot quite follow CD on reversion and Pangenesis,
but is amazed at CD’s observations and method.
Comments on varieties of asses, kidney beans, and artichokes.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6134 |
To H. W. Bates 22 April [1868]
Summary
Thanks HWB for answering questions.
The MS on Lepidoptera is almost finished and he is glad HWB will read it; he is fearful of mistakes, not being familiar with the subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6135 |
To Richard Kippist 22 April [1868]
Summary
"Please give Bearer Books for me.–"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms.84.2 (Box 3, Folder 36)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6136 |
From W. E. Darwin [22? April 1868]
Summary
Charles Langstaff on action of muscles in crying. He believes the primary object of the contraction of the orbicularis is to protect the eye from blood.
Blushing on the body.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22? Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 83, 80, 80/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6137 |
To George Bentham 22 April 1868
Summary
Is not surprised that GB cannot digest Pangenesis, but it has been an immense relief to CD in tying together large classes of facts.
Sends names of men writing on crossing of plants. Criticises some French observations. Praises Hildebrand and Federico Delpino.
Sends pamphlets.
CD is experimenting on a large scale on difference in plants raised from self-fertilised and crossed seeds.
F. Hildebrand has produced a graft-hybrid which seems to lend important support to Pangenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 703–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6138 |
From Henry Doubleday 22 April 1868
Summary
On proportion of sexes;
coloration of sexes in Lepidoptera.
Sexual attraction of female Saturnia carpini.
| Author: | Henry Doubleday |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A9–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6139 |
From Fritz Müller 22 April 1868
Summary
His opinion of Pangenesis.
On relative proportion of sexes in marine animals [sthg missing!?] Crustacea.
Sexual differences.
Music of Cicadae.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A85–6; Möller 1915–21, 2: 140; Darwin Library–CUL (tipped into CD’s copy of F. Müller 1864a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6140 |
From Charles Langstaff [after 22? April 1868]
Summary
Describes the appearance of the nose in crying.
| Author: | Charles Langstaff |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22? Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7413 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (1) |
| Langstaff, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (1) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| Langstaff, Charles | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
