To G. H. Darwin 18 November [1874]
Summary
Sends Murray’s report of November sales of CD’s books. "I am well content."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9724 |
To John Tyndall 27 December 1874
Summary
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 |
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 …
To J. D. Hooker 4 July 1874
Summary
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 |
To Asa Gray 25 December 1874
Summary
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 |
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 |
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 |
To W. M. Hacon 16 April [1874]
Summary
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 |
From L. C. Harrison [1 July 1874]
Summary
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 |
To J. V. Carus 17 June [1874]
Summary
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 |
To F. C. Donders 7 July 1874
Summary
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 |
To Charles Lyell [13 January 1874]
Summary
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 |
To John Ralfs [after 25 June 1874]
Summary
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 |
To G. E. Paget 1 August 1874
Summary
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 |
To John Ralfs 13 July [1874]
Summary
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 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 May [1874]
Summary
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 |
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 |
To F. C. Donders 15 July 1874
Summary
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 |
To J. V. Carus 9 July [1874]
Summary
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 |
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 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (76) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (18) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
