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To John Tyndall   27 December 1874

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Asks JT to persuade Lady Lubbock to change physicians and put herself in the care of Andrew Clark. Thinks this alone will save her.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Tyndall
Date:  27 Dec 1874
Classmark:  DAR 261.8: 22 (EH 88205960)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9784

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  • … Mary Harriet. See also letter from Emma Darwin to J.  B.  Innes, 12 October [1874] . CD …

From G. H. Darwin   24 October 1874

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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

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  • … of Abinger. It was designed by Richard Norman Shaw . Frances Allen ( Emma Darwin’s aunt). …
  • … Hensleigh Wedgwood ( Emma Darwin’s brother), Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood (Hensleigh’s …
  • … Whichelo . Ida was Emma Cecilia Farrer , who became Horace Darwin’s wife in 1880. Thomas …
  • Darwin, 17 August 1874 . Claudius James and Emily Georgina Erskine . Maitland Katherine Erskine , Edith Emma

To J. D. Hooker   4 July 1874

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It would be interesting to prove that some plants feed on decayed animal matter whilst others like Drosera can digest fresh animal matter. Suggests the method for observing this.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  4 July 1874
Classmark:  DAR 95: 324–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9532

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  • … n. 2). Mg: morning. Hooker visited CD on 11 July 1874 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …

To Asa Gray   25 December 1874

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Read AG’s article [see 9753] on longevity and duration of varieties with great interest.

Death of Mrs Hooker.

Hopes Insectivorous plants will be out in the spring.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  25 Dec 1874
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (110)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9779

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  • … Allan 1967 , p.  225). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), J.  D.  Hooker stayed …

To Charles Lyell   31 May [1874]

Summary

Comments on CL’s planned bequest to science. CD would do the same if he had fewer sons.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  31 May [1874]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.442)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9477

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  • … Lyell ed.  1881, 2: 477–8). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Lyell visited Down …

To G. J. Romanes   [7 December 1874]

Summary

Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  [7 Dec 1874]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.453)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9747

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  • … G.  J.  Romanes, [9 December 1874] ). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records ‘C.  in bed’ …

To W. M. Hacon   16 April [1874]

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CD’s son Francis is to be married, so CD is seeking advice as to how much he should arrange as a marriage-settlement.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:  16 Apr [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 97: C50–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9415

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  • … Francis married Amy on 23 July 1874 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Amy’s parents were …

From L. C. Harrison   [1 July 1874]

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Sends further details on Pinguicula reference.

Author:  Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 July 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 138v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9528

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  • … See letter from L.  C.  Harrison to Emma Darwin, [before 1 July 1874] and n.  2. Harrison …

To J. V. Carus   17 June [1874]

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Asks JVC if he can provide introductions in Leipzig and Dresden for his son George.

Has not yet received any revised sheets of Descent [2d English ed.].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  17 June [1874]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 118–119)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9495

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  • … and returned home on 11 July 1874 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Carus was preparing a …

To F. C. Donders   7 July 1874

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Asks about the effect of atropine on the eye. Is interested in parallel case: influence of phosphate of ammonia on glands of Drosera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:  7 July 1874
Classmark:  DAR 143: 417
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9535

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  • … while travelling in Europe ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 7 July 1874 (DAR …

To Charles Lyell   [13 January 1874]

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The coral-reef book has been invaluable [J. D. Dana, Corals and coral islands (1872); used by CD in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)].

Thanks for Saturday Review.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [13 Jan 1874]
Classmark:  The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9240

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  • … fell on 13 January 1874. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD fell down the …

To John Ralfs   [after 25 June 1874]

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Wants particularly to know whether seeds or leaves of other plants are ever found adhering to the leaves of Pinguicula. Observations would perhaps best be made in a month or two.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Ralfs
Date:  [after 25 June 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 59.1: 88
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9514F

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  • … this letter by amending a version in Emma Darwin’s hand of a standard letter sent out to …

To G. E. Paget   1 August 1874

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Apologises for delay, but is away from home; has sent telegraph.

Francis Darwin is abroad on his honeymoon and unable to respond to GEP’s offer of a medical position.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Edward Paget
Date:  1 Aug 1874
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (Ms Add. 10379)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9580F

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  • … He married Amy Ruck on 23 July 1874 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Probably Laura …

To John Ralfs   13 July [1874]

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Discusses specimens of Utricularia.

Mentions JR’s work on desmids [The British Desmidieae [Desmidiae!?] (1848)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Ralfs
Date:  13 July [1874]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.443)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9546

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  • … butterwort) and Utricularia . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD had a bad …

To G. H. Darwin   27 May [1874]

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D. A. Spalding has asked for information to help with his experiments on sense of direction in animals. Has arrived at same results as GHD with blindfolded children. Will GHD let him have his results?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  27 May [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9472

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  • … Spalding’s visit is not recorded in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), but see the letter from …

From J. D. Hooker   15 July 1874

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Asks what can be the meaning of appendages to tips of leaflets of enclosed Acacia or Mimosa.

Is at fibrin today.

Michael Foster suggests coagulation of protoplasm may be diseased, not digestive, symptom.

F. M. Balfour is at Kew today.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 July 1874
Classmark:  DAR 103: 206–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9548

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  • … Francis Maitland Balfour . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD had a bad attack …

To F. C. Donders   15 July 1874

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Discusses effect of atropine solution on eye,

and effect of phosphate of ammonia solution on gland of Drosera.

Would like to see work by T. W. Engelmann and possibly one by Dr De Ruyter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:  15 July 1874
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9547

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  • … his journey after reaching Hanover ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); letter to J.  V.   …

To J. V. Carus   9 July [1874]

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Advises JVC on how his publisher might deal with problem of getting satisfactory heliotype copies for 2d [German] edition of Expression.

Regrets that he will again be away in August, when JVC might have come for a visit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  9 July [1874]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 116–117)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9539

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  • … returned from abroad on 11 July 1874 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD was away from …

From V. O. Kovalevsky   20 January 1874

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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

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  • … Gaisinovich ed.  1988 , pp.  180, 210; Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). According to his …
  • … essay was published by Macmillan and Co. , not John Murray . Emma and Elizabeth Darwin . …

From F. C. Donders   12 July 1874

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On hearing of CD’s work with Drosera, tells of his experiment showing extreme sensitivity of the iris of a dog’s eye to atropine. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 173.]

Author:  Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 July 1874
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 79–80
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9545

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  • … visited Donders in Utrecht ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 7 July 1874 (DAR …
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