From ? [after 14 January 1874]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Jan 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8794 |
To ? [1874–5?]
Summary
Although he formed a high opinion of one of the correspondent’s papers, regrets that he could not presume to give an opinion of the merits of a candidate in chemistry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1874–5?] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9217 |
To ? 1 January 1874
Summary
CD sends thanks for the honour conferred by his election as an honorary member, though ill health may prevent his taking advantage of the privileges granted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9222 |
To ? 3 January 1874
Summary
Has no objection to having his name appear as honorary member of [unidentified] club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 3 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9224 |
To G. H. Darwin 30 January [1874?]
Summary
Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan [1874?] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7466F |
From H. H. Howorth 3 January [1874]
Author: | Henry Hoyle Howorth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8722 |
From H. H. Howorth [27 January 1874]
Summary
Sends paper ["Strictures on Darwinism, pt 2", J. Anthropol. Inst. 3 (1874): 208–28].
Refers to articles in the Art Journal on changes in English countenance since the Tudor period.
Author: | Henry Hoyle Howorth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Jan 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9210 |
From J. S. B. Sanderson [1874]
Summary
Note on the chemical composition of teeth.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9214 |
To T. L. Brunton [1874–5?]
Summary
Comments on behaviour of babies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1874–5?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9215 |
To Fritz Müller 1 January 1874
Summary
Thanks for two pamphlets.
Sends Thomas Belt’s [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)], "the best Nat. Hist. book of travels ever published".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 1 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9223 |
From E. P. T. Houk 3 January 1874
Summary
Sends paper she read before AAAS, but which was not accepted for Proceedings.
Author: | Eliza Phillips Thruston Houk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9225 |
From B. J. Sulivan 5 January 1874
Summary
Mentions family news;
sends a little magazine [missing] dealing with South American mission and showing "what teaching and the gospel of Christ is doing for those poor Natives".
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 299 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9226 |
To James Crichton-Browne 5 January 1874
Summary
Requests help for George Darwin’s investigation of marriages of first cousins. Seeks to determine proportion of first-cousin offspring among the insane, deaf and dumb, blind, etc.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 5 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 347 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9227 |
To William Waring 6 January 1874
Summary
CD has previously received information on colours of greyhounds. Now asks whether breeders rear all puppies, and, if not, do they selectively rear more males or females?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Waring |
Date: | 6 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Kent History and Library Centre (CKS-U1906/Z/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9228 |
To B. J. Sulivan 6 January [1874]
Summary
Thanks BJS for the missionary pamphlet and his good account of the Fuegians.
Is under the care of Andrew Clark, and feels "very old & helpless".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 6 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9229 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 January 1874
Summary
Thanks JDH for Asa Gray’s interesting letter.
Would like JDH’s copy of Coral reefs. Needs it for corrections for a new edition. Cannot buy one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 310; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray Correspondence: Letter from Gray to Hooker, folio 658) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9231 |
From Hubert Airy 8 January 1874
Summary
W. J. Beal’s paper ["Phyllotaxis of cones", Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 449–53] shows incompleteness of HA’s theory, but does not invalidate his basic principles on origin of leaf arrangement or the broad applicability of the theory.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9232 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 8 January 1874
Summary
Pleased they will publish a new edition of Coral reefs, and he will soon consider any addenda and write a short preface.
Will return the wood-blocks of Journal of Researches the following week.
Could his copy of Coral Reefs please be returned.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9233F |
To Horace Darwin 9 January [1874]
Summary
CD is glad Horace has done "pretty well" in his examination.
Smith and Elder will publish new edition of Coral reefs [1874]; thanks HD for aid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9234 |
From William Waring 9 January 1874
Summary
Breeders normally destroy weak and puny puppies in large litters, but would keep females if only one or two.
Author: | William Waring |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 76–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9235 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
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