From W. D. Fox 22 June [1874]
Summary
Will try to get certain insectivorous plants for CD, especially Utricularia. Is glad to hear he has taken up Drosera.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 198, 198/2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9507 |
From W. D. Fox 8 May [1874]
Summary
Has left Delamere and settled on the Isle of Wight.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9446 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 20 January 1874
Summary
Russian Expression has sold nearly 2000 copies.
Plans to come to England to study collections of vertebrate fossils from the Chalk. This will complement his work in the south of France.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9251 |
From G. H. Darwin 24 October 1874
Summary
GHD explains conduction, radiation, and convection.
His paper on political economy for Royal Institution lecture has reached 60 pages. Plans to send it to Contemporary Review.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 54; 210.2: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9695 |
From G. H. Darwin 18 April 1874
Summary
Sends queries [on proofs of Descent, 2d ed.]. Will be finished, except for the index, in two days.
Is now less satisfied than formerly with his statistics on cousin marriage.
[Enclosure is a copy by GHD of J. S. Mill’s statement about Origin (Logic 2: 18 n.).]
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9417 |
From T. H. Farrer [before 10 April 1874]
Summary
Observations on Coronilla.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 10 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8854 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 August 1874]
Summary
Lady Dorothy Nevill is CD’s best chance for Dionaea.
Reports on Belfast meeting of BAAS. Lubbock’s lecture went off admirably. Huxley’s was the magnum opus.
Encloses letter from Mrs Barber on protective coloration of animals.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Aug 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 219–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9610 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 December 1874]
Summary
Has gone over Huxley’s letter, thinks it a model. All must now await developments. If Mivart does not apologise, JDH will write to him.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Dec 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 241–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9780 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin 1873a ). See letter from T. H. Huxley, 23 December 1874 . Robert Cary Barnard (Major Barnard) was the husband of Anne Barnard , Frances Harriet Hooker’s sister; their son Henslow Barnard was aged 12. Frances died on 13 November 1874 ( Allan 1967 , p. 225). Hooker also refers to Effie Elizabeth …
To J. D. Hooker 25 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks for information about Hedychium. Hopes wings of Sphinx will be found covered with pollen for that will be a fine bit of prophecy from the structure of a flower to special and new means of fertilisation.
Has been at Descent so hard he has done nothing, not even H. Spencer’s answer.
Has not yet read Croll ["Ocean currents", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 47 (1874): 94–122, 168–90].
Has heard nothing about Carter and Eozoon. Eozoon, he infers, is done for.
Has read Belt [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: best of all natural history travel books.
Has written to Fritz Müller about leaf-carrying ants.
Hopes to resume work on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 317–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9372 |
To W. D. Fox 11 May [1874]
Summary
Has just finished new editions of Descent
and Coral reefs.
Is working on a book almost wholly on Drosera; thinks he has made some discoveries.
Will never have strength and life to complete more of the series of books related to Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 11 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 153) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9454 |
From Michael Foster 17 June [1874]
Summary
Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Shark embryology.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9498 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin . Foster wrote his letter to CD on the blank page of the three-page printed leaflet about the Zoological Station that is reproduced here as an enclosure. Balfour and Albert George Dew-Smith had gone to Naples in the autumn of 1873, and Edwin Ray Lankester had worked there in 1872 before the official opening of the station (see Heuss 1991 , pp. 115, 153). Alfred Newton . Probably a copyist’s error for Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell . John William Strutt , third Baron Rayleigh. Elizabeth …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
