To Leonard Jenyns 22 February [1868]
Summary
Asks LJ which British birds are polygamous. His query relates to the possession by the male of secondary sexual characters.
CD is also interested in the numerical proportion of the sexes in birds.
Asks about the use of the horns in male lamellicorn or coprophagous beetles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5911 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 February [1868]
Summary
Reports work on sexual selection. Problems with the relative numbers of the two sexes and polygamy. Asks ARW’s help with several questions on polygamous birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 104–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5912 |
To Jean Jacques Moulinié 22 February [1868]
Summary
Sends corrections [for French edition of Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms suppl. 66, ff. 5–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5913 |
To H. W. Bates 22 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks HWB for bringing "the question of sexes" before the Entomological Society. Feels he will come to some conclusion by comparison of numerous observations.
It appears Pangenesis "will expire unblessed and uncursed by the world".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph file, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5914 |
To J. V. Carus 22 February [1868]
Summary
Sends sheets of second issue [of Variation] with errata and changes to be made.
Refers to a favourable review,
and a contemptuous one in Athenæum written, he thinks, by Richard Owen [see 5931].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 33–34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5915 |
From Edward Wilson 22 February 1868
Summary
CD’s queries on expression.
Sends photo of a native Australian.
| Author: | Edward Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5916 |
From W. S. Dallas 22 February 1868
Summary
Has sent his translations [of parts of Theodor Piderit, System der Mimik und Physiognomik (1867)].
Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin [1864] would sell if well translated. WSD would be glad to undertake it.
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5917 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Wilson, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool
Summary
< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…
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- … < Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being …
Santa Fé, Argentina
Summary
Inland trips
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- … Writes of his journey from Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca, and his illness on an expedition to Santa Fé …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … I could have given no answer’. 21 Page 222, par. 1, line 3, substitute for ‘on high …
1.14 William Richmond, oil
Summary
< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
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- … , 3 vols (London: John Murray, 1887, 1888), vol. 3, p. 222, and catalogue of portraits, p. 371. …
