To H. E. Litchfield 21 [March 1874]
Summary
Proof-correcting [of 2d ed. of Coral reefs?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 21 [Mar 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9324 |
To H. E. Litchfield 27 [March 1874]
Summary
Thanks her for her excellent criticisms and corrections [for 2d ed. of Coral reefs?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 27 [Mar 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9325 |
To Edmund Hartnack 1 March 1874
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edmund Hartnack |
Date: | 1 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9326 |
To T. W. Denby 1 March 1874
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas William Denby |
Date: | 1 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9327 |
From Leonard Darwin 1 March 1874
Summary
Notes on movements of Mimosa pudica.
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.2: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9328 |
To the Royal Society of London 2 March [1874]
Summary
A certificate for admission [of Robert Swinhoe] to Royal Society with many signatures has been lost by the Post Office. Asks for another so he can get the signatures anew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
Date: | 2 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9329 |
To H. B. Tristram 3 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks HBT for all the trouble he has taken for Robert Swinhoe and himself. Will try to get six signatures on a new certificate and deliver it to the Royal Society in time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Baker Tristram |
Date: | 3 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | New York Academy of Medicine (MS 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9330 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 March 1874
Summary
The row at the Linnean Society and other troubles.
The Agricultural Society has sent Anton De Bary £100 to investigate the potato disease – an insult to M. J. Berkeley, who had worked on it for 30 years.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 189–92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9331 |
From F. E. Abbot 3 March 1874
Summary
Asks CD to read and comment, for publication, on his forthcoming essay in Index on the evolution of conscience and morals through action and reaction between man and the moral environment.
Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9332 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 March [1874]
Summary
CD guessed Carruthers was stirred up by Owen. Disgraceful treatment of Bentham.
Work on Descent and Coral reefs stops his doing anything of real interest.
Asa Gray’s letter. CD has acknowledged the honour [honorary membership in the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.].
"What a demon on earth Owen is. I do hate him."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 313–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9333 |
To T. L. Brunton 4 March 1874
Summary
On digestive powers of Drosera and those of higher animals.
Comments on expression on two halves of human face.
Responds to TLB’s views of serpent- and fire-worship.
Poison of venomous snakes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9334 |
To Eugène Desmarest 4 March 1874
Summary
Thanks for letter announcing election to honorary member of the Entomological Society of France. Has always felt entomology admirable for throwing light on general problems in biology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eugène Desmarest |
Date: | 4 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | Annales de la Société entomologique de France 5th ser. 4 (1874): xlvi |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9334F |
From J. W. Robertson to George Cupples 4 March 1874
Summary
His general rule has been to preserve male deerhound puppies in preference to females.
Author: | J. W Robertson |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 4 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 114–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9335 |
To Walter White [3? March 1874]
Summary
Sending the membership certificate for Robert Swinhoe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter White |
Date: | [3? Mar 1874] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 147) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9335F |
From T. H. Huxley 6 March 1874
Summary
Has heard from Dohrn about his financial problems. Asks CD’s advice on what to do.
THH’s article in Contemporary Review ["Universities: actual and ideal" (1874), Collected essays, vol. 3 (1894)].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 193–4; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (Huxley: 13.256, 13.258) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9336 |
To Anton Dohrn 7 March 1874
Summary
CD is grieved to hear that AD is overworked and troubled about the Zoological Station. Glad he is now writing to seek assistance from English naturalists. Sends a subscription of £100 and £10 each from George and Francis Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 7 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 712) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9338 |
From J. T. Moggridge 7 March 1874
Summary
Sends abstract of Martin Ziegler’s paper on sensitive movements in Drosera ["Sur un fait physiologique observé sur des feuilles de Drosera", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 74 (1872): 1227–9].
JTM’s experiments with formic acid and ants have failed to reveal the secret of the ants, but have taught him a great deal about germination.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9339 |
To J. V. Carus 8 March [1874]
Summary
Looks forward to a visit from JVC and family in August.
Sheets of vol. 1 of Descent [2d ed.] are going to printer;
new edition of Coral reefs is half printed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 8 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 114–115) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9340 |
To a member of the Athenaeum Club 9 March [1874]
Summary
Seeks correspondent’s support for his nephew, Henry Parker, for membership in the Athenaeum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Member of the Athenaeum Club |
Date: | 9 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9341 |
To Thomas Woolner 9 March 1874
Summary
Seeks support for election of his nephew, Henry Parker, to the Athenaeum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Woolner |
Date: | 9 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (A26/112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9342 |
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