From ? [after 14 January 1874]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Jan 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8794 |
From E. T. S. [23–30 April 1874]
Summary
Cancelled: third-party letter from ’ETS’.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23-30 Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425J |
From ? 13 September 1874
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9635 |
From T. L. Brunton 23 May 1874
Summary
Comments on his examination of slides [of milk casein?] sent by CD.
Surprised by CD’s finding that a drop of one per cent hydrochloric acid stops digestion of albumen by Drosera.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 120–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10512 |
From Leonard Darwin [after 14 February 1874]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Feb 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8709 |
From H. H. Howorth 3 January [1874]
Author: | Henry Hoyle Howorth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8722 |
From C. S. Tomes [before 16 February 1874]
Summary
Inherited dental abnormalities in man. [Enclosed are proofs of pp. 113–16 from J. Tomes, A system of dental surgery, 2d ed. (1873).]
Author: | Charles Sissmore Tomes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 16 Feb 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9195 |
From Leonard Darwin [before 27 June 1874]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 27 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9196 |
From W. E. Darwin [before 18 June 1874]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 18 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 137; Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9201 |
From Thomas Aitken [c. 25 June 1874]
Summary
Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.
Author: | Thomas Aitken |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 25 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 150–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9204 |
From W. J. L. Wharton [15 September 1874 or later]
Author: | William James Lloyd Wharton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Sept 1874 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A67–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9205 |
From H. H. Howorth [27 January 1874]
Summary
Sends paper ["Strictures on Darwinism, pt 2", J. Anthropol. Inst. 3 (1874): 208–28].
Refers to articles in the Art Journal on changes in English countenance since the Tudor period.
Author: | Henry Hoyle Howorth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Jan 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9210 |
From J. S. B. Sanderson [1874]
Summary
Note on the chemical composition of teeth.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9214 |
From E. P. T. Houk 3 January 1874
Summary
Sends paper she read before AAAS, but which was not accepted for Proceedings.
Author: | Eliza Phillips Thruston Houk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9225 |
From B. J. Sulivan 5 January 1874
Summary
Mentions family news;
sends a little magazine [missing] dealing with South American mission and showing "what teaching and the gospel of Christ is doing for those poor Natives".
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 299 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9226 |
From Hubert Airy 8 January 1874
Summary
W. J. Beal’s paper ["Phyllotaxis of cones", Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 449–53] shows incompleteness of HA’s theory, but does not invalidate his basic principles on origin of leaf arrangement or the broad applicability of the theory.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9232 |
From William Waring 9 January 1874
Summary
Breeders normally destroy weak and puny puppies in large litters, but would keep females if only one or two.
Author: | William Waring |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 76–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9235 |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 January 1874
Summary
Wants CD to propose him for the Royal Society.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 337 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9242 |
From H. T. Stainton 15 January 1874
Summary
Encloses R. McLachlan’s certificate of nomination for Royal Society. Hopes CD will sign it, as McLachlan is the most philosophic member of the Entomological Society in years.
Author: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9243 |
From William Dealtry 16 January 1874
Summary
On the increases in crossbred English and Tahitian population of Pitcairn islanders. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 190.] Includes copy of letter from George Hunn Nobbs about the population of Norfolk Island.
Author: | William Dealtry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 30–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9244 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (25) |
Darwin, G. H. | (14) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (11) |
Huxley, T. H. | (8) |
Brunton, T. L. | (7) |