To Leonard Rudd 18 April [1874]
Summary
Discusses LR’s communication concerning supernumerary mammae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Rudd |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.441) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9416 |
From G. H. Darwin 18 April 1874
Summary
Sends queries [on proofs of Descent, 2d ed.]. Will be finished, except for the index, in two days.
Is now less satisfied than formerly with his statistics on cousin marriage.
[Enclosure is a copy by GHD of J. S. Mill’s statement about Origin (Logic 2: 18 n.).]
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9417 |
To Nature 18 April [1874]
Summary
CD has observed hundreds of primrose flowers cut off their stalks, and conjectures that this was done by birds to obtain the nectar. Asks readers of Nature in England and abroad whether primroses are subject to such destruction in their localities.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 23 April 1874, p. 482 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9418 |
To G. H. Darwin 19 April [1874]
Summary
Is sorry to hear the news about the cousin question – a real misfortune.
Congratulates GHD on being nearly finished with work on Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9419 |
To Henry Willett 19 April [1874]
Summary
F. M. Balfour is in Naples. Comments on rate at which sea eats back the land, as given in early editions of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Willett |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 359 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9420 |
From G. H. Darwin 20 April 1874
Summary
Sends Descent material. Is staggered by CD’s power of marshalling facts and his conciseness and clearness of thought. The only fault he finds is some slight want of conciseness of diction.
He feels CD’s power more now "that I quail before the thought of arranging the few paltry facts I’ve got about those d––d cousins".
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9421 |
From Eliza Meteyard 20 April 1874
Summary
The memorial failed last autumn. She asks for CD’s signature again so that it may be presented now that there is a new Government.
Her [Wedgwood] Handbook is now in press.
| Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9422 |
From Fritz Müller 20 April [1874]
Summary
FM gives his own observations of leaf-cutting ants, which support those of Thomas Belt in his book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1873)]. [See 9223.] These ants feed only upon the fungus that grows upon the leaves that they carry to their nests.
He has caught a moth of the Glaucopidæ that when touched emitted a cloud of snow-white wool.
Observations on the stingless bees of Brazil.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 11 June 1874, pp. 102–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9422A |
To G. H. Darwin [21 April 1874]
Summary
GHD’s corrections seem very good. Murray hopes there will be few corrections in Descent. CD assured him no changes have been made merely for improving style.
Wants very much to hear about "the terrible cousin affair".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9423 |
From Henry Cecil 21 April 1874
Summary
Affirms his belief in an impassable spiritual gulf between man and the lower creatures.
| Author: | Henry Cecil |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9424 |
To Edward Frankland 22 April [1874]
Summary
Requests permission to call briefly to discuss Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9424A |
From W. T. Thiselton Dyer to Nature [23–30 April 1874]
Summary
Cancelled: third-party letter.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [23-30 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9424F |
To Michael Foster 23 April [1874]
Summary
Approves of proof [of subscription appeal for Dohrn’s Naples station]. Suggests names.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425 |
From J. H. Gladstone to Nature [23–30 April 1874]
Summary
Cancel: third-party letter.
| Author: | John Hall Gladstone |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [23-30 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425F |
From H. C. Key to Nature [23–30 April 1874]
Summary
Cancelled: third-party letter from H. C. Key.
| Author: | Henry Cooper Key |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [23-30 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425G |
From G. M. Seabroke to Nature [23–30 April 1874]
Summary
Cancelled: third-party letter from G. M. Seabrook.
| Author: | George Mitchell Seabroke |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [23-30 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425H |
From T. R. Stebbing to Nature [23–30 April 1874]
Summary
Cancelled: third-party letter.
| Author: | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [23-30 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425I |
From E. T. S. [23–30 April 1874]
Summary
Cancelled: third-party letter from ’ETS’.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23-30 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425J |
From Charles Lyell 24 April 1874
Summary
Will subscribe £25 towards F. A. Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Lyell correspondence Mss.B.L981) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9426F |
To Michael Foster 25 April [1874]
Summary
Has received circulars, and contributions from Lyell and George Busk [for Naples biological station].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9427 |
| letter | (71) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Frankland, Edward | (3) |
| Cecil, Henry | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
| Nature | (7) |
| Frankland, Edward | (4) |
| Foster, Michael | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (64) |
| Frankland, Edward | (7) |
| Nature | (7) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
| Foster, Michael | (4) |
