To W. E. Darwin 25 March [1868]
Summary
Gives his opinion on a business transaction involving WED and the Southampton bank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6050 |
To John Murray [25? March 1868]
Summary
American publishers will not wait for woodcuts, so asks Murray to have a copy of the reprint sent to Asa Gray. Will call soon to talk about Für Darwin and to hear about sale of latest edition of Origin
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [25? Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (10 November 2009); PBA Galleries (dealers) (10 May 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6050F |
To J. D. Hooker [26 March 1868]
Summary
He and Lizzie [Elizabeth Darwin] will come to Kew on Saturday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [26 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 58–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6052 |
To A. R. Wallace 27 March [1868]
Summary
There are so many doubtful points on the problems relating to sterility that they will never agree.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 123–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6058 |
To J. J. Weir 27 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks for information [about sex ratios] received from bird-catchers.
"Can you form any theory about all the many cases which you have given me and others which have been published, of when one pair is killed, another soon appearing?"
Facts about gay-coloured caterpillars very satisfactory.
Comments on Pangenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6059 |
To Roland Trimen 27 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks RT for letter which saves him from a "terrible mistake": that no moths were more brilliantly coloured beneath than above. Suggests revised version for comment. [See Descent 1: 397.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A119–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6060 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 March 1868]
Summary
Defers visit [to Kew] because of ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6062 |
To W. E. Darwin [15 March 1868]
Summary
Asks WED to observe blushing in the blind, and yawning.
Mentions elephants’ crying while trumpeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6067 |
To Ernst Haeckel 30 March [1868]
Summary
Now understands importance of swim-bladder in selachians. Always imagined animal like Lepidosiren was parent form of vertebrates.
Has been nearly a month in London, collecting facts on sexual selection from breeders and at Zoological Gardens.
Astonished at hybrid of rabbit and hare. Is it certain that work was done with hare?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6070 |
To William Bowman 30 March [1868]
Summary
Clarifies his earlier query on Bell’s observations. Seeks confirmation of Bell’s statement that the conjunctiva of a child whose eyes are opened forcibly during a screaming fit become engorged with blood. CD has noted a relationship between contraction of the orbicular muscle and secretion of tears; can WB explain why they appear related?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | Doris Harris Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6071 |
To William Thierry Preyer 31 March 1868
Summary
Glad to hear that WP defends species transmutation. German support is the chief reason to hope that their views will prevail.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | LL 3: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6075 |
To Ferdinand von Hochstetter 31 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks for gift of work on the geology of the Novara expedition
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand von Hochstetter |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | A. von Hochstetter (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6075F |
To Edward Alfred Smith [11–31 March 1868]
Summary
Instructions for woodcuts showing sexual differences in beetles, for Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Alfred Smith |
| Date: | [11–31 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 81: 94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7052 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 [March 1868]
Summary
Asks WED to observe a suppressed yawn.
Asks whether scratching a tickling point makes tears come to his eyes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 22 [Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8396 |
| letter | (54) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Weir, J. J. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Trimen, Roland | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (54) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Weir, J. J. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
