To W. D. Fox 21 October [1868]
Summary
Reminds WDF to write about the "great magpie marriage". Sexual selection an "everlasting subject".
News of his children.
Asks for information on instances of sexual preference in animals and data on numbers of males and females born in various domesticated species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1868] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 149); DAR 266 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6426 |
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- … Horace Darwin, 26 [July 1868] and n. 2). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) Henrietta Emma Darwin went abroad on 31 August 1868. CD refers to Francis Sacheveral Darwin, his half-uncle ( Freeman 1978 ). Henrietta probably met Violetta Harriot Darwin and Ann Eliza Thomasine Darwin, the only two daughters who were not married by 1868 ( Darwin pedigree ). In the incomplete letter …
To J. B. Innes 2 September 1868
Summary
Surprised and pleased JBI liked his "big book" [Variation].
Luckily, naturalists do not seem to think he has committed suicide with the work.
CD wants to turn over the school accounts to John Robinson [curate of Down]. Writes of other parish news.
Will vote in person for Sir John Lubbock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6345 |
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- … Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, Shoe String Press. Hutchinson, Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. LL : The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. Edited by Francis …
From A. R. Wallace 8 [April] 1868
Summary
If CD is not convinced by his notes on sterility, ARW has little doubt that he is wrong. In fact he was only half-convinced by his own arguments.
Modifies his first proposition [a species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to free inter-crossing the variations never increase] and further discusses the subject.
Encloses Berthold Seemann’s notes on flora of the Hawaiian Islands. Presence of European alpine species in Hawaiian volcanoes is a "hard nut" for geographical distribution [but see ARW’s Island life (1880), p. 323].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 [Apr] 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B57-8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6104 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
