To W. D. Fox [30 June 1828]
Summary
Mainly concerned with entomological specimens CD has recently captured. Three figures of beetles are included.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [30 June 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-43 |
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- … the stomach marked with bands something like a Cock chafer. About 19 new Carabi—several …
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Was Darwin an ecologist?
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … I gave two seeds to a confounded old cock, but his gizzard ground them up; at least I cd. not find …
Sexual selection
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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
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- … such as the horns on a stag or the spurs on a cock. Sexual selection, he wrote, depends 'not on …
Beauty and the seed
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One of the real pleasures afforded in reading Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the discovery of areas of research on which he never published, but which interested him deeply. We can gain many insights about Darwin’s research methods by following these …
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- … & looking gorgeous. I gave two seeds to a confounded old cock, but his gizzard ground them up; …
