To Peter Martin Duncan 13 April [1868?]
Summary
Promises to send coral specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Peter Martin Duncan |
Date: | 13 Apr [1868?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.272) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13802 |
To Moritz Wagner [April–June 1868]
Summary
Thanks MW for his essay [Die Darwin’sche Theorie und das Migrationsgesetz der Organismen (1868)]. Is highly gratified that MW agrees with him to a considerable extent.
Almost wishes that he could believe in the importance of isolation to the same extent as MW.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Moritz Friedrich (Moritz) Wagner |
Date: | [Apr–June 1868] |
Classmark: | LL 3: 157; DAR 148: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5760 |
From W. E. Darwin [13 April 1868]
Summary
Action of facial muscles at onset of crying.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5965 |
From W. E. Darwin [7–15 April 1868]
Summary
Langstaff has never seen the platysma act, and he believes it to be rudimentary in humans.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7–15 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 80/4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6076 |
From Frederick F. Geach April 1868
Summary
Sends expanded answers [to Queries about expression], in view of CD’s statement that his first list had not been sufficiently explanatory. Is pleased that some answers confirmed CD’s views [see Expression, passim].
Author: | Frederick F. Geach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6077 |
From J. J. Weir [before 28 April] 1868
Summary
Proportion of sexes in chaffinches.
Pugnacity of blackbirds and robins.
Harrison Weir reports up to nine eggs in starling nests.
Newspaper report of a sheep born with its owner’s brand.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 Apr] 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: C1–2, DAR 84.1: 73–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6078 |
From William Bowman 1 April [1868]
Summary
Asks for precise reference in Charles Bell to subject of CD’s question. Agrees to assist CD’s investigation. Asks about Bell’s observations on eyes engorged with blood. Has noticed that eyes of children with excessive photophobia tend to be pale when forced open.
Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 268 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6079 |
From G. H. K. Thwaites 1 April 1868
Summary
Has circulated CD’s Queries about expression and gives some of his observations of the natives.
Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6080 |
To William Bowman 2 April [1868]
Summary
Gives Charles Bell’s explanation of the contraction of the orbicularis during screaming and seeks confirmation of his view because the action is "the key-stone of a whole class of expressions". Curious to learn WB’s conclusion in regard to the relation between contraction of the orbicularis and secretion of tears. Notes that voluntary contraction of the orbicularis causes no tears.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 2 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 72 (photocopy) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6081 |
From George Robert Gray 2 April 1868
Author: | George Robert Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 90–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6082 |
From Robert Caspary 2 April 1868
Summary
Finds important differences between English and German versions of Variation on graft-hybrids.
Experiments and observations on submerged flowers.
Author: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6083 |
To John Bush 2 April [1868]
Summary
Thanks JB for his information. Has heard of analogous cases to JB’s observations on [colours of] crossed rats; the offspring of white and grey mice are stated to be either white or grey and never piebald.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Bush |
Date: | 2 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6084 |
To Fritz Müller 3 April [1868]
Summary
Movement in plants.
Dimorphism.
Would welcome FM’s opinion of Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 3 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6085 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 April [1868]
Summary
Asks for [John?] Smith’s exact count of seeds of the crossed and self-fertilised Victoria water-lily. Similar question on Euryale seed and seedlings.
JDH’s coming [BAAS] Presidential Address.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 60–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6086 |
From Henry Doubleday 3 April 1868
Summary
Otto Staudinger’s catalogue shows prices of female Lepidoptera to be higher than those of males.
Author: | Henry Doubleday |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 78, DAR 82: A8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6087 |
From Camille Dareste 3 April 1868
Summary
Thanks for Variation.
CD must be happy about the tendency toward acceptance of his views, though it is regrettable that France is backward in this regard.
His own work goes slowly, but he still hopes his work on artificially produced monstrosities will help to answer the question of the origin of species.
Author: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6088 |
From Edward Blyth [3 April 1868]
Summary
Discusses apes and their relationships to each other. Writes particularly of the gibbon, its structure and well-developed legs giving it the ability to walk without using its hands.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 45: 29, DAR 83: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6089 |
From Fritz Müller 3 April 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for sending him copy of Variation.
Describes results of his brother’s [August Müller] experiments on effect of climate on maize.
Like ancestors of horses, young tapir is also striped.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 137–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6089A |
From W. E. Darwin 3 April 1868
Summary
Discusses how they might enquire about any provisions in the laws of partnership concerning lunacy.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6089F |
To J. J. Weir 4 April [1868]
Summary
CD thanks JJW for the mine of information his last "ten!" letters contain. Comments on sexual display of pheasants and colour preferences of pigeons.
Asks about hens that pair earliest in spring and about possible existence of unpaired birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 4 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6090 |
letter | (82) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
Weir, J. J. | (6) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Blyth, Edward | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (55) |
Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |