To John Murray 18 October 1874
Summary
Thanks for Quarterly Review [Oct 1874, containing G. H. Darwin’s letter and a rejoinder]. Is convinced the author is Mivart. Is therefore not surprised at malice in the article attacking his son [George Darwin] and grossly misrepresenting CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 345–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9685 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Mivart’s anonymous review of works by John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor ( [Mivart] …
- … Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. ] Quarterly Review …
- … John Murray. 1871. Dickens, Charles. 1837. The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall. [Mivart, St George Jackson. ] 1869. Difficulties of the theory of natural selection. Month 11: 35–53, 134–53, 274–89. [Mivart, St George Jackson. ] 1874b. Primitive man: Tylor and Lubbock. [ …
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 12 October [1874]
Summary
Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9674 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 October 1874
Summary
Oliver will attend to his letter.
Tells of discovery and rediscovery of Aldrovanda.
Asks what CD thinks of "old Pritchard’s discourse" [C. Pritchard, Natural science and natural religion (1874)]. Does not affect evolution at all. It does affect the rather unprofitable doctrine of materialism.
His plans for the Royal Society Presidential Address.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 226–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9673 |
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 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
