To Nature 7 and 11 May [1874]
Summary
Thanks Nature correspondents for their observations on destruction of primroses [Nature 9 (1874): 509; 10 (1874): 6–7]. Reports an error in his observations: ovules, as well as nectar, are taken by the birds. As the habit of cutting off primrose flowers is widespread, CD concludes it is instinctive in bullfinches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 7 and 11 May [1874] |
Classmark: | Nature, 14 May 1874, pp. 24–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9444 |
From T. L. Brunton 23 May 1874
Summary
Comments on his examination of slides [of milk casein?] sent by CD.
Surprised by CD’s finding that a drop of one per cent hydrochloric acid stops digestion of albumen by Drosera.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 120–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10512 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 23 May [1874 or 1875?]
Summary
"With kind regards, & many thanks for Prof. Steenstrup’s Photograph, which is most highly valued by C. Darwin"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 23 May [1874-5] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (tipped into a copy of Orchids) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5098 |
From J. M. Grandclément [May 1874]
Summary
He was chagrined to read in Descent CD’s statement that smallpox vaccine has saved thousands of lives. He has found no scientific reason to believe in the prophylactic effect of the vaccine. In epidemic of 1870–1, smallpox killed more vaccinated persons than were killed by cholera, against which there is no vaccine, in 1853–4. Cites the difficulties in arriving at a conclusive proof of vaccine’s effectiveness.
Author: | Joseph Marie Grandclément |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [May 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9436 |
From W. W. Keen [May–June? 1874]
Summary
CD’s theory has his qualified support.
He suggests the inheritance of syphilis as an example of sexual selection.
Gives an example of inherited expression in his wife’s and daughter’s frowns.
Author: | William Williams Keen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [May–June? 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9437 |
From Leonard Darwin 3 May 1874
Summary
Experiments on sensitive plants.
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9438 |
To F. S. B. François de Chaumont 4 May 1874
Summary
Returns FDeC’s certificate for the Royal Society signed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
Date: | 4 May 1874 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/5) Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9439 |
To Easton and Anderson 4 May [1874]
Summary
CD’s son Horace wishes to continue at Easton and Anderson’s Works. CD trusts they will not bind him to long hours of work as this would be against medical advice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Easton and Anderson |
Date: | 4 May [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9440 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 5 May [1874]
Summary
Thanks for the acid digestion experiments, which can be printed as they are. CD trying Drosera on dentine and enamel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 May [1874] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9441 |
From J. F. McLennan 5 May 1874
Summary
Would like to see C. S. Wake’s paper ["Marriage among primitive peoples", Anthropologia 1 (1873–5): 197–207].
Will return L. H. Morgan’s work [? Systems of consanguinity (1871)].
Murray suggests Macmillan’s are more likely to reprint JFMcL’s Primitive marriage.
Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9442 |
From T. M. Reade 7 May 1874
Summary
Studying glacial drift in NW. England, he finds evidence of intense glacial activity, but the molluscan fauna does not appear to indicate a low sea temperature. Requests information on Tierra del Fuego molluscs for comparison.
Author: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9443 |
To Béla Weisz 8 May 1874
Summary
Would be interesting to discuss political economy in light of evolution. Recommends Walter Bagehot Physics and politics [1872] and Descent in which source of moral sense is discussed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Béla Weisz |
Date: | 8 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9445 |
From W. D. Fox 8 May [1874]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9446 |
From J. F. McLennan 8 May 1874
Summary
Thanks for issue of Anthropologia. Would be pleased if CD would write to Murray on his behalf.
Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9447 |
From Michael Foster [before 9 May 1874]
Author: | Michael Foster |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 9 May 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9448 |
To William Crookes 9 May [1874]
Summary
Regrets he cannot comply with request because of his work and poor health.
Delighted to have seen correspondent’s "wonderful experiment" at Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Crookes |
Date: | 9 May [1874] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9449 |
To T. M. Reade 9 May 1874
Summary
Interested in TMR’s investigation of drift. Narrative 1: 545–6 contains catalogue of shells collected. Much struck by marine productions of Tierra del Fuego.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Date: | 9 May 1874 |
Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9450 |
To John Murray 9 May [1874]
Summary
Recommends that JM consider publishing a new edition of J. F. McLennan’s Primitive marriage [1865]. CD considers it very valuable and not too indelicate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 May [1874] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 347–347A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9451 |
To Michael Foster 9 May [1874]
Summary
CD is rather disappointed by the money raised for Dohrn. Had hoped for £700–800.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Michael Foster |
Date: | 9 May [1874] |
Classmark: | Michael Silverman (dealer) (January 2001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9452 |
To T. L. Brunton 11 May 1874
Summary
Encloses, for examination, residue from skim-milk which has been on the glands of Drosera. Asks TLB to confirm his views on action of Drosera secretion on milk. Asks about effects of pepsin and hydrochloric acid in digestive juice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Date: | 11 May 1874 |
Classmark: | Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Manuscripts Division (C0140 Box 13 AM20431) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9453 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
McLennan, J. F. | (3) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Anderson, G. S. | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (2) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Crookes, William | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Dobson, G. E. | (1) |
Du Prel, Carl | (1) |
Easton and Anderson | (1) |
Foster, Michael | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Frankland, Edward | (2) |
François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
Kemp, J. C. | (1) |
Lockyer, Norman | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Nature | (1) |
Reade, T. M. | (1) |
Saporta, Gaston de | (1) |
Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
Weisz, Béla | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (5) |
Brunton, T. L. | (3) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
McLennan, J. F. | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Dobson, G. E. | (2) |
Foster, Michael | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Frankland, Edward | (2) |
Reade, T. M. | (2) |
Anderson, G. S. | (1) |
Crookes, William | (1) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
Du Prel, Carl | (1) |
Easton and Anderson | (1) |
François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
Grandclément, J. M. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Keen, W. W. | (1) |
Kemp, J. C. | (1) |
Klein, E. E. | (1) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Llewelyn, T. M. | (1) |
Lockyer, Norman | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Merriam, C. H. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Nature | (1) |
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Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
Story-Maskelyne, T. M. | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Weisz, Béla | (1) |