From George Cupples 3 February 1874
Summary
Responds to CD’s queries about breeders’ practices in destroying and saving males or females in litters of deerhounds.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 85–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9263 |
From J. F. McLennan 3 February 1874
Summary
Discusses the evolution of marriage systems; considers the scheme of development CD proposes: 1. Polygyny and monogamy; 2. Polyandry; 3. Promiscuity; 4. Polygyny and monogamy in recurrence. Explains what he understands by promiscuity. JFM believes that polygyny, monogamy, and polyandry must have occurred in "every district from the first, and grown up together into systems sanctioned by usage first and then law". Considers polygyny necessarily the privilege of the few and, as a system, believes it had less to do than any other with the history of marriage. He sees polyandry as an advance from promiscuity and the stage at which contractual obligations between men and their wives begin.
| Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | McLennan 1896, pp. 50–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9264 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 4 February 1874
Summary
Sends £40 for copyright to Édmond Barbier’s revision of Moulinié’s Descent translation.
Journal of researches translation is in press.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9265 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 February 1874
Summary
Do breeders rear more male than female greyhound puppies?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9266 |
To H. W. Bates 6 February 1874
Summary
Orders five works on the Sandwich Islands from the Royal Geographical Society Library for his investigation of infanticide and population trends there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9267 |
From G. H. Darwin 6 February 1874
Summary
Finds statistical evidence that cousin marriages are at least three times as frequent in "our rank" as in the lower.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9268 |
From J. C. Symmes 6 February 1874
Summary
Believes that he has an important physical theory: all atoms revolve.
| Author: | John Cleves Symmes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 339 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9269 |
From E. A. Darwin 7 February [1874?]
Summary
George brought a plant from Cambridge, which he is keeping for CD.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb [1874?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9270 |
From O. G. Rejlander 7 February 1874
Summary
Thanks CD for £10 to help with his law case.
| Author: | Oscar Gustaf Rejlander |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9272 |
From B. J. Sulivan 7 February 1874
Summary
The Bishop of Falkland [Waite Hockin Stirling] is coming to visit BJS, who will question him for CD.
Discusses politics; regrets they have been badly beaten by the Tory candidate.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9273 |
From George Cupples 7 February 1874
Summary
Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9274 |
From H. W. Bates 7 February 1874
Summary
Books CD requested have been packed and sent.
He will present CD with the classified catalogue [of Royal Geographical Society].
He has not learned whereabouts of Thomas Staley.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9275 |
From C. G. Semper 8 February 1874
Summary
Comments on G. H. Lewes’s book [The life and works of Goethe (1855)].
| Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9276 |
From Robert Swinhoe 9 February 1874
Summary
Matters of etiquette concerning his certificate for the Royal Society.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 338 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9277 |
From George Harris 10 February 1874
Summary
Sends about 15 sheets on instinct from his book [A philosophical treatise on the nature and constitution of man (1876)] for CD’s comments.
| Author: | George Harris |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9280 |
From Fritz Müller [c. January 1874]
Summary
Agrees with Bates that neuter termites are not modified imagos (sterile females), but modified larvae (of both sexes).
Systematic relations of stingless honey-bees (Melipona and Trigona) are not yet well established.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. Jan 1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 19 February 1874, p. 309 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9281 |
From W. T. Goodale 11 February 1874
Summary
Asks CD if he can reconcile a passage in Mark Hopkins’ Outline study of man [1873] with the theory of development.
| Author: | Walter Temple Goodale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9282 |
To George Harris 12 February 1874
Summary
Has read GH’s proofs and, although not entirely in agreement, has no criticisms worth sending.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Harris |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | University of California Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division (Ms. 10, Letters concerning George Harris’s A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9284 |
From Anton Dohrn 12 February 1874
Summary
Birthday greetings.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9285 |
From T. N. Staley 12 February 1874
Summary
On the decline of population of the Hawaiian Islands, before advent of Europeans; infanticide, polyandry.
| Author: | Thomas Nettleship Staley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 188–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9286 |
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