From W. H. M. Christie 12 October 1874
Summary
Announces arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at Canterbury, New Zealand.
Author: | William Henry Mahoney Christie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9677 |
From Alfred Newton 13 March 1874
Summary
Wishes CD could publish Origin with footnotes.
Increases in bird populations: starlings are increasing, but AN cannot give reason; mistletoe-thrush increasing but not ousting song-thrush. Doubts trustworthiness of [George?] Edwards, CD’s authority in Origin on this matter [see Origin, 6th ed., p. 59].
AN opposed to bird protection legislation to prohibit egging. Argues egging does not decrease number of birds.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9358 |
From J. V. Carus 7 July 1874
Summary
Thanks for proofs [of Descent, 2d English ed.].
Publisher would like better photographs for Expression [2d German ed.].
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9536 |
From G. H. Darwin [4 November 1874]
Summary
GHD has been using E. Norman [CD’s copyist], and he apologises if this has caused delays to CD’s work.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Nov 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9708 |
From J. F. McLennan 13 May 1874
Summary
Bernard Quaritch interested in reprinting Primitive marriage.
Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9458 |
From G. H. Darwin 18 October 1874
Summary
Has been invited to lecture at the Royal Institution by Spottiswoode. Discusses subjects he might deal with and his reasons for attempting it.
Tells of a complicated case of a double sale of a living.
Huxley says F. M. Balfour passed brilliantly.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9683 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 July 1874
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 204–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9537 |
From G. H. Darwin 5 December 1874
Summary
Has finished the "cousin paper" and will offer it to W. Farr for the Statistical Society.
Describes other work in progress.
Has CD heard of A. M. Mayer’s curious work on audition of insects [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 8 (1874): 89–103?]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9743 |
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 G. H. Darwin 20 April 1874
Summary
Sends Descent material. Is staggered by CD’s power of marshalling facts and his conciseness and clearness of thought. The only fault he finds is some slight want of conciseness of diction.
He feels CD’s power more now "that I quail before the thought of arranging the few paltry facts I’ve got about those d––d cousins".
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9421 |
From W. E. Darwin [19? July 1874]
Summary
WED encloses a letter from H. M. Wilkinson about Utricularia and sundew.
H. M. Wilkinson has examined bladders of Utricularia; doubts that they absorb or digest insects.
H. M. Wilkinson describes dragonfly trapped by sundew [Drosera].
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19? July 1874] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 53); DAR 58.1: 135–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9554 |
From J. D. Hooker [3 December 1874?]
Summary
Probably a discussiion of J. D. Hooker’s feelings after death of his wife, Frances Harriet, on 13 November 1874: the letter is badly damaged.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Dec 1874?] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9719F |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 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 …
From L. C. Harrison [1 July 1874]
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 July 1874
Summary
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 |
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 F. C. Donders 12 July 1874
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 September 1874
Summary
Thiselton-Dyer’s announcement of his inability to continue as JDH’s private secretary is a blow. He will now be doing original work. JDH is glad of that but the loss of his help is great.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 88–9; DAR 103: 221; Insectivorous plants, p. 5 n. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9638 |
From G. H. Darwin [8 November 1874]
Summary
Spottiswoode is pressing for an answer to invitation to GHD to lecture at the Royal Institution. GHD is having MS of the paper he has written sent to CD, so that CD can advise whether he should accept the invitation.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Nov 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9688 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 July 1874
Summary
Has "given the slip" to Nepenthes, but is setting a plant up in an enclosure for special observation.
Has some splendid Sarracenia and will perform any miracle regarding them CD puts him up to.
Charmed with CD’s account of Pinguicula. Would like to try whether Lychnis has the same use of viscid fluid.
Has written for English Utricularia for CD.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 200–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9526 |
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