From ? [after 14 January 1874]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Jan 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8794 |
From H. H. Howorth 3 January [1874]
Author: | Henry Hoyle Howorth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8722 |
From H. H. Howorth [27 January 1874]
Summary
Sends paper ["Strictures on Darwinism, pt 2", J. Anthropol. Inst. 3 (1874): 208–28].
Refers to articles in the Art Journal on changes in English countenance since the Tudor period.
Author: | Henry Hoyle Howorth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Jan 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9210 |
From J. S. B. Sanderson [1874]
Summary
Note on the chemical composition of teeth.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9214 |
From E. P. T. Houk 3 January 1874
Summary
Sends paper she read before AAAS, but which was not accepted for Proceedings.
Author: | Eliza Phillips Thruston Houk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9225 |
From B. J. Sulivan 5 January 1874
Summary
Mentions family news;
sends a little magazine [missing] dealing with South American mission and showing "what teaching and the gospel of Christ is doing for those poor Natives".
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 299 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9226 |
From Hubert Airy 8 January 1874
Summary
W. J. Beal’s paper ["Phyllotaxis of cones", Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 449–53] shows incompleteness of HA’s theory, but does not invalidate his basic principles on origin of leaf arrangement or the broad applicability of the theory.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9232 |
From William Waring 9 January 1874
Summary
Breeders normally destroy weak and puny puppies in large litters, but would keep females if only one or two.
Author: | William Waring |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 76–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9235 |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 January 1874
Summary
Wants CD to propose him for the Royal Society.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 337 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9242 |
From H. T. Stainton 15 January 1874
Summary
Encloses R. McLachlan’s certificate of nomination for Royal Society. Hopes CD will sign it, as McLachlan is the most philosophic member of the Entomological Society in years.
Author: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9243 |
From William Dealtry 16 January 1874
Summary
On the increases in crossbred English and Tahitian population of Pitcairn islanders. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 190.] Includes copy of letter from George Hunn Nobbs about the population of Norfolk Island.
Author: | William Dealtry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 30–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9244 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 17 January 1874
Summary
French translation of Expression sent for CD’s approval.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9245 |
From C. L. Denison 17 January [1874]
Summary
Sends CD the number of Pitcairn islanders transferred to Norfolk Island cited in her deceased husband’s book [Sir William Thomas Denison, Varieties of a vice-regal life (1870)] but is unable to furnish additional information.
Author: | Caroline Lucy Denison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9246 |
From J. V. Carus 19 January 1874
Summary
A new German edition of Descent is planned. Would like to work on proofs before leaving for lectures at Edinburgh.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9248 |
From J. H. Martin 19 January 1874
Summary
JHM, who has not read CD’s works, must conduct a discussion on Darwinism and theology at a local literary society. He asks CD to define briefly his position on the origin of man and on descent.
Author: | James Hales Martin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9249 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1874
Summary
An awful row at the Linnean Society. William Carruthers and Co. packed a meeting to throw out a decision of the Council. He was beaten by one vote (more than two-thirds majority needed).
Spent two hours with Lyell talking about Thomas Belt’s book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: "the tropical old Glaciers beat the seance I do think".
Lyell agrees that the glacial epoch is the great geological crux of the day. Lowering of the ocean level must also be investigated.
Curious about A. C. Ramsay’s paper coming at Royal Society on 29th ["On the comparative value of certain geological ages", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 22 (1874): 145–8].
Huxley’s new book [? Critiques and addresses (1873)].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 187–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9250 |
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 I. L. Roberti 24 January 1874
Summary
Has grown haricots in England following CD’s suggestion in the Origin that this had never been done.
Wishes to see CD.
Author: | Isaac Louis Roberti |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 183, 183/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9254 |
From C. G. Semper 25 January 1874
Summary
Discusses coral reefs
and encloses a copy of his "Reisebericht" [Z. Wiss. Zool. 13 (1863): 538–70], as requested by CD.
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9255 |
From T. H. Huxley 27 January 1874
Summary
Reports to CD on a spiritualist séance attended by himself (incognito) and G. H. Darwin.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9256 |
letter | (25) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Howorth, H. H. | (2) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Dealtry, William | (1) |
Denison, C. L. | (1) |
Downing, John | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Houk, E. P. T. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Martin, J. H. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
Roberti, I. L. | (1) |
Semper, C. G. | (1) |
Stainton, H. T. | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Waring, William (b) | (1) |