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To G. H. K. Thwaites 13 February [1868]
Summary
Asks whether mane in male of Macacus silenus protects it from bites or is merely ornamental.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 13 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.341) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5872 |
From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]
Summary
Sends photo of four Fuegians, including Jemmy Button’s son.
Reports incident of two wild stallions on the Falklands acting together in an attempt to take a troop of mares from an introduced English horse [see Descent 2: 241].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 188–9, DAR 177: 291 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5873 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 February 1868
Summary
Rejoices over news of Variation sales.
Pall Mall Gazette review [7 (1868): 555, 636, 652] is undoubtedly by G. H. Lewes [see 5951].
Dinner at Lyells’.
Dean Stanley favours a monument to Faraday in Westminster Abbey.
Perceval Wright is back from Seychelles and reports on plants he collected.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 198–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5874 |
From J. E. Gray 13 February 1868
Summary
JEG and Nathusius on pigs.
Reference to JEG’s paper on African and Indian cats [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 258–77, 874–6].
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5875 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
