To Smith, Elder & Co 17 December [1873]
Summary
Suggests that his Coral reefs be republished.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 159–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9181 |
From W. M. Hacon 13 October 1879
Summary
How to bargain on Horace Darwin’s marriage-settlement: Francis received £5000; Horace could receive more as an inducement for the Farrers to increase Ida’s dowry.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12256 |
To Down School Board [after 29 November 1873]
Summary
CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | [after 29 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9122 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1874 , and J. R. Moore 1985 , pp. 471 and 480). Henry Powell was vicar of Down from 1869 until 1871. In the letter from Emma Darwin to Horace …
- … Horace Darwin , postmarked ‘29 November 1873’, in DAR 258: 585. In that letter, an appeal to the Education Department seems to have been made, and the result is given in this letter. For more on the dispute that inspired this letter, see the letter from E. F. Lubbock to Emma Darwin , [ c. 29 November 1873] and n. 2. CD was a member of the Down School Board until November 1874 ( …
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 |
From W. C. Marshall 25 September [1878]
Summary
Observations on insectivorous plants.
| Author: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: B1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10173 |
From G. H. Darwin 24 October 1874
Summary
GHD explains conduction, radiation, and convection.
His paper on political economy for Royal Institution lecture has reached 60 pages. Plans to send it to Contemporary Review.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 54; 210.2: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9695 |
To ? 8 June 1874
Summary
Asks about insects and seeds on leaves of Pinguicula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 8 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.435) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9230 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 November [1874]
Summary
CD thinks better of "cousin paper" than GHD does.
With respect to GHD’s "viscous work", remembers endless discussions of movement of viscous matter 20 years back, apropos of movement of glaciers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9735 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1874] and n. 6). CD probably refers to the political economist Charles Stanton Devas . George discussed William Stanley Jevons’s Theory of political economy ( Jevons 1871 ) in his article on the theory of exchange value ( G. H. Darwin 1875d ). CD probably refers to the statistics about British shipping that Thomas Henry Farrer provided to Horace Darwin from the register of wrecks held by the Board of Trade ( letter …
To J. D. Hooker 25 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks for information about Hedychium. Hopes wings of Sphinx will be found covered with pollen for that will be a fine bit of prophecy from the structure of a flower to special and new means of fertilisation.
Has been at Descent so hard he has done nothing, not even H. Spencer’s answer.
Has not yet read Croll ["Ocean currents", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 47 (1874): 94–122, 168–90].
Has heard nothing about Carter and Eozoon. Eozoon, he infers, is done for.
Has read Belt [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: best of all natural history travel books.
Has written to Fritz Müller about leaf-carrying ants.
Hopes to resume work on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 317–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9372 |
Matches: 1 hit
From W. C. Marshall 5 September [1874]
Summary
Sends Pinguicula vulgaris leaves with seeds on them, together with his observations on proportion of leaves with insects on them.
| Author: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 128–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9626 |
From G. H. Darwin 18 October 1874
Summary
Has been invited to lecture at the Royal Institution by Spottiswoode. Discusses subjects he might deal with and his reasons for attempting it.
Tells of a complicated case of a double sale of a living.
Huxley says F. M. Balfour passed brilliantly.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9683 |
To Hubert Airy 24 August 1872
Summary
CD’s son Leonard of the Royal Engineers has applied to Sir George Biddell Airy to be an observer on the Venus Expedition. Leonard failed to mention his qualifications, which CD now relates with the request that HA draw them to his father’s attention.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
| Date: | 24 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | CUL: Royal Greenwich Observatory archives 6/273 (section 3–4: 348–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8486A |
From G. H. Darwin 19 April 1877
Summary
Has heard CD is about to be proposed again for the Académie Française, but Huxley is proposed at the same time and may succeed against CD "as being more orthodox!"
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10933 |
From T. L. Marshall 16 July [1874]
Summary
She and her father have been counting insect remains on Pinguicula hairs.
| Author: | Theodosia Louisa Marshall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 123–4, 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9551 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Horace Darwin was a friend of Marshall’s brother, William Cecil Marshall. The two were students at Trinity College, Cambridge, at the same time ( Freeman 1978 ). The dates of his visit to the Marshalls are unknown. CD suspected that Pinguicula could digest seeds as well as animal matter (see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 June 1874 ). …
To A. G. Dew-Smith 19 October [1873]
Summary
Sends Dionaea plant for experiment involving temperature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albert George Dew-Smith |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1873] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9101 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Letter from A. G. Dew-Smith to Horace Darwin , [30 December 1873] (DAR 258: 1302). William Mudd was the curator of the Botanic Garden at Cambridge. ) Burdon Sanderson had discovered that the electrical current in the blade and footstalk of Dionaea was disturbed when the leaf was irritated in the same way as the electrical current in the muscle of an animal was disturbed during contraction (see Insectivorous plants , pp. 308, 318, and Burdon Sanderson 1874 ). …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Marshall, W. C. | (2) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (1) |
| Marshall, T. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Dew-Smith, A. G. | (1) |
| Down School Board | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
| Marshall, W. C. | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Dew-Smith, A. G. | (1) |
