To Edward Wilson 20 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks EW for information [on expression] about Australians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Wilson |
Date: | 20 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5899 |
To James Shaw 20 February 1868
Summary
Is obliged for note on right-handedness. The subject is a very curious one, but CD has never attended to it and can give no additional facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | Robert Wallace ed. 1899: lxi |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5905 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks WBT for tabulation of sex ratios in racehorses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5906 |
To H. T. Stainton 21 February [1868]
Summary
Discusses factors possibly influencing the sex of caterpillars. Is gathering information on sex ratios in insects and would welcome any cases in which males seem to outnumber females.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5907 |
To Roland Trimen 21 February [1868]
Summary
RT’s argument about the Lasiocampa strikes him as very good; asks for any similar cases. Wonders whether male butterflies may serve more than one female.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5908 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 February [1868]
Summary
Review in Athenæum full of contempt. Is sure Owen wrote it [see 5931].
Gardeners’ Chronicle review [(1868): 184] favourable.
Fears Pangenesis is still-born. Cites Bates, Spencer, Lubbock, and Sir Henry Holland. Is sure Pangenesis will sometime reappear. Questions that are connected and answered by Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 52–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5918 |
To Hermann Müller 23 February [1868]
Summary
Offers to undertake publication of English translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin. W. S. Dallas will translate it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 23 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 430 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5919 |
To W. D. Fox 25 February [1868]
Summary
Is working on "Sexual selection"; asks WDF to send observations on birds’ finding new mates during breeding season [see Descent 2: 103–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 148a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5929 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 25 February [1868]
Summary
Will forward LR’s memoir to Earl of Tankerville. Has sent LR’s pamphlet on "Darwin Lehre" [Die Grenzen der Thierwelt (1868)] to a German lady he employs as a translator. Cannot agree that there is an innate principle of perfection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5930 |
To John Murray 25 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks JM for presentation copies [of Variation]. Sends directions and list.
Has been told positively that hostile review in Athenæum was by Berthold Seemann, to whom he once refused a testimonial.
On the whole, reviews have been very good.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 182–183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5931 |
To Robert Caspary 25 February [1868]
Summary
Will send English edition [of Variation] when available.
Mentions revisions in second issue concerning graft-hybrids.
Asks for Euryale seed for experiment.
Discusses fertility of crossed and self-fertilised plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5932 |
To Henry Lee 25 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for results on sexes of trout. [See 5793.] CD is collecting information about the proportional numbers of sexes in animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Lee |
Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Walter R. Benjamin Autographs (dealer) (May 1988) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5934A |
To Robert McLachlan 25 February [1868]
Summary
Is obliged for the facts about the hybrids [see 5910], which permit him to reject the view of B. D. Walsh (and H. W. Bates?) that organs play an important part in keeping incipient species distinct.
He has asked John Murray to send RM a copy of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert McLachlan |
Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5934B |
To A. R. Wallace 27 February [1868]
Summary
Pleased by ARW’s response to Pangenesis.
On negative reception by his friends.
Further argument concerning sterility and natural selection.
Polygamy and sexual selection.
Protection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 27 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 108–11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5940 |
To Alfred Newton 27 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for corrections of errors [in Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 27 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5941 |
To John Jenner Weir 27 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks JJW for his paper on apterous insects [see 5939], which contained much new information.
Asks JJW for any information he may have on sexual selection.
Describes an experiment, still untried, of staining tail-feathers of male pigeons in bright colours to find the effect on courtship.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 27 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5942 |
Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
Weir, J. J. | (15) |
Wallace, A. R. | (14) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (11) |
Murray, John (b) | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (323) |
Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
Weir, J. J. | (15) |
Wallace, A. R. | (14) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (11) |