From H. W. Bates 1 October 1874
Summary
Notes that Mr[s] Barber’s communication [forwarded by CD] will be published because of more striking than usual facts ["Notes on … larva and pupa of Papilio nireus", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1874): 519–21].
Encloses Thomas Belt’s address.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9666 |
From F. J. Cohn 4 October 1874
Summary
An account of his observations on Aldrovanda and Utricularia.
Sends CD his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1875) Heft 3: 71–92] in advance of publication [see Insectivorous plants, pp. 321 et seq., 395–6].
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9667 |
From Edward Frankland 9 October 1874
Summary
Sends information CD requested on phosphate of ammonia and on nitrogenous substances produced during putrefaction of animal matter.
Author: | Edward Frankland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9671 |
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 Daniel Oliver 12 October 1874
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9675 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 12 October 1874
Summary
Suggests an explanation for difference in excitability of Drosera leaves to meat and albumen on the one hand and, on the other, fibrin, areolar tissue, gelatin, and fibrous basis of bone.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 101–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9676 |
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 J. S. Burdon Sanderson 16 October [1874]
Summary
Responds to CD’s questions about relation to gelatin of areolar tissue, fibrous basis of bone, and other substances CD is using in his work on digestion of Drosera.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 104–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9681 |
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 Daniel Oliver 20 October 1874
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 106–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9689 |
From W. J. Beal 22 October 1874
Summary
Sends his observation of honey-bees gleaning after orioles had made holes in calyx of Missouri currant, while humble-bees were getting honey through the tube in the usual way.
Author: | William James Beal |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.2: C60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9691 |
From Gerard Krefft 22 October 1874
Summary
After a conflict with the Museum’s trustees, he has been brutally evicted from his home and office. Plans to leave Australia and asks CD’s help.
Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9694 |
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 |
From Ernst Haeckel 26 October 1874
Summary
Thanks CD for Descent, 2d ed.
Comments on German edition of CD’s collected works.
Sales of his Anthropogenie [1874] in various countries.
Anticlericalism and progress of Darwinism in Germany.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9698 |
From J. V. Carus 27 October 1874
Summary
On German translation of Descent [3d German, 2d English ed.]. Lists some misprints in proofs.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9700 |
From T. L. Brunton [29] October [1874]
Summary
Forwards a photograph he thought had been lost. Has noticed that the two sides of the face are often asymmetric in portrait busts and statues.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29] Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 341 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9701 |
From Auguste Forel 31 October 1874
Summary
Thanks for CD’s favourable opinion of his book [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Habits of ants; observations on their carrying empty eggs.
Author: | Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9704 |
From Mary Treat 22 October 1874
Author: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9692 |
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Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Beal, W. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Beal, W. J. | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Christie, W. H. M. | (1) |
Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
Davis, Mary | (1) |
Forel, Auguste | (1) |
Frankland, Edward | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Krefft, Gerard | (1) |
Treat, Mary | (1) |