To J. D. Hooker [4 March 1868]
Summary
Arrangements to dine at JDH’s club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13816 |
To Charles Lyell [9 March 1868]
Summary
Asks to borrow Philosophical Transactions, vol. 157, pt 2 (1868).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [9 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (KU MSS P87: 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5768 |
To Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse [after 12 March 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse |
Date: | [after 12 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 39-40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5962 |
To Edward Hewitt [c. 22 March 1868]
Summary
Asks for facts relating to courtship of birds and especially cases of females preferring particular males.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Hewitt |
Date: | [c. 22 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5963 |
To Henry Doubleday 1 March [1868]
Summary
Has been interested in copy of HD’s letter to H. T. Stainton on numerical proportions of the sexes of insects. Do they vary during different years?
Does he have opinions about the courtships of butterflies?
Will send a copy of his paper on Primula when it is published. [See 5997.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Doubleday |
Date: | 1 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | George W. Platzman (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5966A |
To H. T. Stainton 2 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks HTS for his valuable information. Hopes to arrive at probable answer to question of proportion of males to females in the progeny of butterflies bred in domestication.
On courtship of butterflies, CD believes something more than chance is involved in determining which male is successful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
Date: | 2 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5967 |
To J. E. Gray 2 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks JEG for answering questions so fully and clearly, especially as he is troubled with his eyes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 2 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | Winterbourne House and Garden, University of Birmingham (University Herbarium) (WBHERB.HST.L.25.1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5970G |
To William Sedgwick 4 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks WS for information about moss roses and the Le Compte family.
Mentions WS’s recent papers on inheritance [Brit. & Foreign Med.-Chirurg. Rev. (1867)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sedgwick |
Date: | 4 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.347) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5975 |
To C. S. Vesselofski 4 March 1868
Summary
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski |
Date: | 4 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 1. Register 2-1868. Folder 17. P65, 65 r) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5976 |
To John Murray 4 March [1868]
Summary
Payment of 400 guineas [Variation royalties] delights CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 f. 36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5978 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 4 March [1868]
Summary
Sends sheets with alterations to be made [in Russian translation of Variation]. VOK should consider adding to the title-page that CD is a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (St Petersburg).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 4 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5979 |
To Jonathan Peel 6 March [1868]
Summary
Obliged for JP’s account of sheep. Such articles would make naturalists think more of natural selection.
E. A. Darwin’s health bad.
Asks about sex ratio in sheep births.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jonathan Peel |
Date: | 6 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 8059) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5983 |
To J. J. Weir [6 March 1868]
Summary
Discusses beaks and relative numbers of the sexes of goldfinches.
Comments on sexual selection among butterflies.
Mentions Kerguelen moth collected by Hooker.
Comments on JJW’s observations on coloured birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | [6 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.348) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5986 |
To William Ogle 6 March [1868]
Summary
Wishes he had known of the views of Hippocrates, which are almost identical to his Pangenesis hypothesis. CD advances it as provisional, but secretly expects some such view will have to be admitted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 6 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 2 (EH: 88205900) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5987 |
To John Murray 6 March 1868
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of bill for £420.
Will try to attend Athenaeum meeting to help elect Clowes’s son.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 6 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 37–38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5989 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [5–9 March 1868]
Summary
Would like to meet with WBT while in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | [5–9 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5991 |
To Alfred Wrigley 7 March [1868]
Summary
States his intentions regarding Horace’s future education. CD thought he had made those intentions clear in an earlier letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Wrigley |
Date: | 7 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5993 |
To David Forbes [20 March 1868]
Summary
Any notes on idea of human beauty by natives who have little association with Europeans would interest CD.
Also influence of females on males’ choice.
Sends copy of Queries about expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Forbes |
Date: | [20 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6002 |
To G. G. Stokes 11 March [1868]
Summary
Sends GGS examples of feathers from an albino peacock and repeats his query about the zones of colour [see 5950].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 11 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | CUL (Add MS 7656: D75) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6003 |
To Alfred Wrigley 11 March [1868]
Summary
Regrets and apologises for a misunderstanding regarding Horace’s leaving Clapham School. Is sure he wrote an earlier letter which AW evidently did not receive.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Wrigley |
Date: | 11 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 42–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6004 |
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) |