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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From Asa Gray 12 May 1874
Summary
Encloses letter and sketch from O. N. Rood on pointed ears.
Reports observations on Sarracenia variolaris. A correspondent finds that the fluid in the pitchers is anaesthetic and that a sweet trail runs down the plant, nearly to the ground, to lure up ants.
Encloses two articles on insectivorous plants [Nation 18 (1874): 216–17, 232–4].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9455 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 12 May [1874]
Summary
Reports results of experiments comparing digestibility of gluten and fibrin for CD’s work on Drosera.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9456 |
From J. F. McLennan 13 May 1874
Summary
Bernard Quaritch interested in reprinting Primitive marriage.
Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9458 |
From E. E. Klein 14 May 1874
Summary
Reports on his examination of the effects of Drosera secretion on tooth enamel and dentine, and of artificial gastric juice on fibrous basis of bone.
Author: | Edward Emanuel Klein |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9460 |
From C. H. Merriam 19 May 1874
Summary
Sends the 1872 Report of the U. S. Geological Survey of the Territories, for which he was zoologist.
Most American naturalists support CD. His study of ornithology convinced him.
Lepus bairdii has a distribution limited to Yellowstone Lake.
No doubt CD knows of O. C. Marsh’s horse fossils.
Author: | Clinton Hart Merriam |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9461 |
From J. V. Carus 22 May 1874
Summary
Sends Edinburgh address so he may be sent sheets of Descent [2d English, for 3d German ed.].
Has a large class for his lectures.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9463 |
From G. E. Dobson 23 May 1874
Summary
Sends his paper ["On secondary sexual characters in the Cheiroptera", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 241–52]
and some of his observations of the gecko, which appear to contradict CD’s opinion.
Author: | George Edward Dobson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9465 |
From G. S. Anderson 24 May 1874
Summary
Sends CD photograph of a "natural curiosity", a bear apparently "painted" with red iron on the face of a soft rock; has also sent copies to a few U. S. scientists.
Author: | George S. Anderson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9466 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 25 May 1874
Summary
Regret at reading of Huxley’s death [a false report].
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9469 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 26 May [1874]
Summary
Sends CD provisional information that artificial gastric juice dissolves bone entirely and that gluten and fibrin are completely dissolved in hydrochloric, propionic, and butyric acids. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 118–19.]
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 May [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 54–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9470 |
From G. H. Darwin 30 May 1874
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9475 |
letter | (22) |
McLennan, J. F. | (3) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Anderson, G. S. | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
McLennan, J. F. | (3) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Anderson, G. S. | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |