From Leonard Darwin [before 27 June 1874]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 27 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9196 |
From W. E. Darwin [before 18 June 1874]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 18 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 137; Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9201 |
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 J. M. Grandclément [after 15 June 1874]
Summary
Thanks CD for his answer to his letter. It has not convinced him – he still sees no reason to believe in the prophylactic effect of the vaccine.
Sends an article he has written answering Émile Blanchard of the Academy. Naturalists in France who occupy official positions are not independent.
Author: | Joseph Marie Grandclément |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 15 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9479 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 5 June 1874
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 56–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9484 |
From J. T. Moggridge 11 June 1874
Summary
Charles Martins has given the first Darwinian lectures on zoology at Montpellier.
Joseph Duval-Jouve is also a Darwinian. The latter has lost his position as Inspector of the Academy because of his liberal views.
Wallace suggests that a trap-door spider with an exposed nest preys on nocturnal insects.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9488 |
From Asa Gray 16 June 1874
Summary
AG’s article in Nature was "just and moderate".
Sends his review of C. Hodge’s What is Darwinism? (1874) [Nation 18 (1874): 348–51].
It is uphill work making a theist out of CD.
Gives further observations on Sarracenia variolaris.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9492 |
From Ferdinand von Mueller 16 June 1874
Summary
Wants information from CD for a revision of the supplement of his work on timber trees and other industrial plants [Proc. Zool. & Acclim. Soc. Victoria 3 (1874): 47–95].
Reports the ruin of his department thanks to two papers by Edward Wilson, McKinnon, and Sparrow.
Author: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 283 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9494 |
From Joseph Fayrer 17 June 1874
Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9497 |
From Michael Foster 17 June [1874]
Summary
Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Shark embryology.
Author: | Michael Foster |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9498 |
From W. W. Keen 18 June 1874
Summary
The lack of a hereditary effect of circumcision among Jews argues against CD’s views.
Author: | William Williams Keen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9500 |
From Asa Gray 19 June 1874
Summary
Writes of his article in Nature. Corrects some errors that have appeared in the published version.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9501 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 19 June 1874
Summary
Sends cartilage from cat’s ear, the elastic fibres of which will probably resist digestion [by Drosera]. Is preparing fibro-cartilage, which he expects will be digested easily. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 104.]
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 60–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9502 |
From H. W. Jackson 20 June 1874
Summary
Cites instances of invariable correlations of colour he has observed in cats, dogs, and sheep. [See Variation, 2d ed., 2: 316.]
Author: | Henry William Jackson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 203–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9503 |
From T. M. Coan 22 June 1874
Summary
Passes on his father’s answer to CD’s query about Hawaiian infanticide.
Author: | Titus Munson Coan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9506 |
From W. D. Fox 22 June [1874]
Summary
Will try to get certain insectivorous plants for CD, especially Utricularia. Is glad to hear he has taken up Drosera.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 198, 198/2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9507 |
From T. C. Copland 23 June 1874
Summary
Sends a description of Drosera dichotoma and its manner of fly-catching [see Insectivorous plants, p. 282].
Author: | Thomas Cooke Copland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 62–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9509 |
From T. H. Huxley 25 June 1874
Summary
Returns proof of his note on brain for 2d ed. of Descent. Has added a reference to Abbé Lecomte’s "terrible pamphlet" [Le Darwinisme et l’origine de l’homme (1873)] "lest it be thought I meant our cher Owen".
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9510 |
From John Ball 25 June [1874]
Summary
Received CD’s note late and so could not comply, but promises to vote in future for anyone CD recommends for Athenaeum.
Will have new evidence on dog’s intelligence sent to CD.
Author: | John Ball |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9512 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 June 1874
Summary
Reports on his examination of the dried specimens of Pinguicula at Kew to answer CD’s query whether all species secrete.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 64–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9513 |
letter | (27) |
Fayrer, Joseph | (3) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Aitken, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Fayrer, Joseph | (3) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Aitken, Thomas | (1) |
Ball, John | (1) |
Coan, T. M. | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Copland, T. C. | (1) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Davis, Mary | (1) |
Foster, Michael | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Grandclément, J. M. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Jackson, H. W. | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Keen, W. W. | (1) |
Meteyard, Eliza | (1) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
Mueller, Ferdinand von | (1) |
Treat, Mary | (1) |