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To Albert Günther   12 February 1874

Summary

Asks AG to sign an enclosure [see 9291].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  12 Feb 1874
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (38)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9287

To Fritz Müller   13 February 1874

Summary

Has sent FM’s letter on termites to Nature ["Habits of various insects", Nature 10 (1874): 102–3].

Would be interested in observations on the stingless bees of Brazil.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  13 Feb 1874
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 37)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9288

To Anton Dohrn   13 February 1874

Summary

Thanks for birthday greetings.

Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. Would like to send third son [Francis Darwin] to learn art of observing marine animals.

Health indifferent.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:  13 Feb 1874
Classmark:  Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 711)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9289

From T. M. Coan   14 February 1874

Summary

On the declining population of the Hawaiian Islands [see Descent (1875), pp. 186–7, 187–8 n. 43].

Author:  Titus Munson Coan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 69: A11, DAR 90: 40–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9290

From Albert Günther   14 February 1874

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Summary

Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 97: C39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9291

From Hermann Müller   15 February 1874

Summary

Feels CD’s and Fritz Müller’s judgments on his "Anwendung" essay [see 8313] are of highest value. Mentions some of FM’s comments.

Looks forward to second English edition of Descent.

Author:  Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 171: 303
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9293

To George Harris   16 February [1874]

Summary

Returns proofs; has no criticisms or remarks worth sending.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Harris
Date:  16 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-9294

To H. B. Tristram   16 February 1874

Summary

Asks HBT to sign certificate [for Royal Society] for Robert Swinhoe.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Baker Tristram
Date:  16 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 148: 148
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9295

From A. S. G. Canning   16 February 1874

Summary

Offers information on pea-fowl for new edition of Variation.

Author:  Albert Stratford George Canning
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 161: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9296

From J. A. Gammie   16 February 1874

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Summary

Sends his observations on the fertilisation of Hedychium gardnerianum by sphinx moths. Did not look for pollen on the wing tips.

Author:  James Alexander Gammie
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 157a: 98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9296A

From W. B. Tegetmeier   17 February 1874

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Summary

Gives the answers of two of the best dog breeders to CD’s queries.

Author:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 90: 98–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9298

From Octavius Pickard-Cambridge   17 February 1874

Summary

Criticises sexual selection theory. Supports natural selection.

Gives CD references on proportion of sexes in spiders.

Author:  Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 161: 7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9299

To G. E. Shuttleworth   17 February [1874]

Summary

At the suggestion of Crichton-Browne CD writes on behalf of his son George, who is making a study of marriages between first cousins and of their offspring to determine the proportion of the latter who may be among the insane, deaf and dumb, idiotic, blind etc. Is GES willing to ask his patients [at the Royal Albert Asylum] for the information relevant to this study?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Edward Shuttleworth
Date:  17 Feb [1874]
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (MS.5134)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9299A

To W. B. Tegetmeier   18 February 1874

Summary

Thanks for answering his query on greyhound puppies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  18 Feb 1874
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9300

To L. D. Blake   18 February 1874

Summary

Does not believe in the possibilty of dog suicide.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Lillie Devereux Blake
Date:  18 Feb 1874
Classmark:  Blake 1888, pp. 47–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9300F

From A. S. G. Canning   18 February 1874

Summary

Reports on a female black-winged pea-fowl at his home in Ireland.

Author:  Albert Stratford George Canning
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 161: 41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9302

To Hugo de Vries   19 February 1874

Summary

Thanks for copies of HdV’s two articles on climbing plants (Vries 1873a and 1873b).

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hugo de Vries
Date:  19 Feb 1874
Classmark:  Artis Library (De Vries 1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9303F

To Octavius Pickard-Cambridge   [before 20 February 1874]

Summary

Discusses meaning of term "sexual selection".

Comments on variability in males.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Date:  [before 20 Feb 1874]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.437)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9304

To J. P. Cooke   20 February 1874

Summary

Thanks for his election as Foreign Honorary Member.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Josiah Parsons Cooke
Date:  20 Feb 1874
Classmark:  American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Letterbook 07-36)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9305

To Ludwig Rütimeyer   20 February 1874

Summary

Thanks for LR’s essay on living and fossil turtles [Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchâtel 9 (1873): 439–41].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:  20 Feb 1874
Classmark:  Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9306
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