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 |
From John Murray 6 March [1868]
Summary
JM sends note for £420.
Asks CD to use his good offices on behalf of William Clowes’s son who is up for election to Athenaeum.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 358 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5988 |
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 |
From J. J. Moulinié 6 March [1868]
Summary
First volume of Variation in French has been printed. Second volume has been translated. CD’s additions to chapter 11 arrived in time.
| Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 270 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5990 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Peel, Jonathan | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Peel, Jonathan | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
