To Roland Trimen 12 February [1868]
Summary
Is interested in the relative numbers of males and females of all animals; wants any instances of males, or females, being in excess.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 64) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5867 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 3 July 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for mentioning his Corydalis and Primula experiments in Variation.
Has become Professor of Botany at Freiburg.
Encloses specimen of Corydalis cava.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 July 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 209 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6267 |
To John Murray 25 May 1868
Summary
Asks JM to consider publishing a MS on John Wesley by CD’s niece, Frances Julia Wedgwood [John Wesley and the evangelical reaction of the eighteenth century (1870)].
Has received clean sheets for Italian translation [of Variation?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 25 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.186–189) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6207 |
From W. S. Dallas 9 June 1868
Summary
F. Müller’s corrections warrant stating that the English translation has "additions and corrections by the author".
Is gratified to hear his index [to Variation] is considered a good one.
Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1868)], though speculative, strikes him as "one of the most remarkable books of our time".
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6238 |
From G. H. Lewes 12 November 1868
Summary
Disappointed that he missed CD. Hopes still to see him in the flesh.
Has CD seen August Weismann’s inaugural address [see 6297]?
| Author: | George Henry Lewes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: D11–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6458 |
From F. T. Buckland 27 February 1868
Summary
On the proportion of sexes in salmon, trout, and rats. [see Descent 1: 305, 308.]
| Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A46–8b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5946 |
From G. R. Crotch [after 16 October 1868]
Summary
Lists stridulating organs of various Coleoptera.
| Author: | George Robert Crotch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 16 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 81: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6530 |
From Albert Günther 13 May 1868
Summary
Sends proofs of his fish paper.
Will observe modification of colour in fish.
Is studying the development of the axolotl.
Encloses notes in reply to CD’s queries on fishes.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 242a, DAR 82: B23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6170 |
To J. J. Weir 1 September 1868
Summary
Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 319 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6343 |
From Charles William Nunn 23 September 1868
Summary
Sends an ear of wheat that has an oat kernel growing on it.
| Author: | Charles W Nunn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6387 |
From H. T. Stainton 29 February 1868
Summary
Replies to CD on proportion of sexes in butterflies, coloration of moths, and courtship. Encloses copies of letters on these subjects between HTS, Henry Doubleday, and John Hellins.
| Author: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B52-3; DAR 86: A16; |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5960 |
From W. W. Reade 23 May 1868
Summary
Will answer CD’s queries from Africa.
Reports extreme amazement of some natives in Gabon upon seeing a white man for the first time.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6202 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 21 May [1868] . The Fang (or Fans) are a people of northern Gabon. Reade had travelled in West Africa in 1862 and 1863; his account of his travels was published as Reade 1863 . Question 1 of CD’s Queries about expression was, in his own printed version: ‘Is astonishment expressed by the eyes and mouth being opened wide, and by the eyebrows being raised? ’ (Appendix V). Reade describes his encounter with Edmund Gabriel of São Paulo de Loanda (now Luanda), Angola, in Reade 1863 , pp. 303–12, …
To A. R. Wallace 16 September [1868]
Summary
CD’s oscillating views relating to protection and sexual selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 16 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 149–50) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6368 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 October 1868 (see DAR 81: 32); for CD’s conclusions regarding E. longimanus , see Descent 1: 381–2. For Wallace’s musk beetle ‘ Callichroma ’, see the letter from A. R. Wallace, [14 September 1868] and n. 5. Musk beetles, including the European Cerambyx moschatus (now Aromia moschata ), release a strong odour as a sexual attractant. CD and Francis Darwin examined the beetle’s stridulating organ on 21 …
From John Scott 4 May 1868
Summary
Replies to CD’s query on expression of emotions.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6160 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 21 Thus with an advanced … sunk 25] scored blue crayon Question 3, 29 pushed each other … closed fist 30] scored blue crayon Question 4] illeg & partly destroyed note in margin, pencil Questions 6 and 7] crossed pencil Question 10, 5 shrug his shoulders] underl blue crayon, scored blue crayon 9 turning up and down … oil) 10] scored blue crayon 10 lowering brow 11] underl blue crayon 12 …
To J. J. Weir 13 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks for facts about birds displaying plumage during courtship; "for Butterflies I must trust to analogy altogether in regard to sexual selection".
Invites JJW to visit in summer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 13 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2952: 8–10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6009 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 21–3). See letter from J. J. Weir, 11 March 1868 . CD included Weir’s description of the courtship displays of various finches in Descent 2: 94–5. CD refers to the male of the common wild duck, Anas boschas (now Anas platyrhynchos , the mallard; see Descent 2: 84), and to Gallus bankiva (now G. gallus , the red junglefowl). Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Weir, Wallace, and Edward Blyth visited CD from 12 …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Buckland, Frank | (1) |
| Crotch, G. R. | (1) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Weir, J. J. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Weir, J. J. | (2) |
| Buckland, Frank | (1) |
| Crotch, G. R. | (1) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
