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To John Tyndall   9 March [1874]

Summary

Asks JT to support his nephew, Henry Parker, for election to the Athenaeum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Tyndall
Date:  9 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 261.8: 33 (EH 88205971)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9343

To Alfred Newton   9 March [1874]

Summary

Asks AN to vote for CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, at the Athenaeum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Newton
Date:  9 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/60)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9344

From T. L. Brunton   9 March 1874

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Summary

Writes on the possible origin of serpent-worship.

Is glad CD does not think his view regarding the two sides of the face is erroneous.

Author:  Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 160: 338
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9345

To William Bowman   9 March [1874]

Summary

Urges WB to give his vote "and exert any influence which you properly can" in favour of CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, a fellow of Oriel, at the next balloting at the Athenaeum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:  9 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  Heritage Auctions (dealers) (12 November 2020, lot 47256)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9346

To George Bentham   9 March [1874]

Summary

Asks GB to support the election of CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, to the Athenaeum Club.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Bentham
Date:  9 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Miscellaneous Correspondence Series)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9347

To Edward Frankland   9 March [1874]

Summary

Requests EF’s vote and support in favour of Henry Parker for membership in the Athenaeum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Frankland
Date:  9 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9347A

From Alfred Newton   10 March 1874

Summary

Questions correctness of two statements in Origin: 1. That fulmar petrels are the most numerous birds in the world;

2. That the increase of one form of thrush in Scotland has been concomitant with the decline of another form.

Author:  Alfred Newton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 172: 49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9348

To J. T. Moggridge   10 March 1874

Summary

Criticises paper by Ziegler [see 9339].

Acid experiments on seeds have failed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Traherne Moggridge
Date:  10 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 146: 381
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9349

To ?   11 March 1874

Summary

Thanks correspondent for offer of [unidentified] rare book but does not accept it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  11 Mar 1874
Classmark:  Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9351

From Albert Wigand   11 March 1874

Summary

Sends copy of his book [Der Darwinismus und die Naturforschung Newtons und Cuviers, vol. 1 (1874)]. Expresses respect for CD in spite of the book’s criticism of him.

Author:  Julius Wilhelm Albert (Albert) Wigand
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 181: 100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9352

To P. F. Perfil’eva   11 March 1874

Summary

Sends photograph.

Comments on Mme P’s bulldogs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Perfil’eva, P. F.
Date:  11 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 147: 242
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9353

To Alfred Newton   12 March [1874]

Summary

Cannot answer AN’s questions about Origin; it would take weeks to find the references. Assures AN he stated nothing without an authority he thought good.

Feels sure missel thrushes have increased in number since his youth. Starlings have also increased astonishingly in Kent. "How inexplicable most of these cases are".

In a P.S. remembers his source for statement about increase of missel thrushes in Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Newton
Date:  12 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/61)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9354

From Prior Purvis   12 March 1874

Summary

Sends report on an infant with congenital heart disease who died at ten months. Post-mortem showed it had the "heart of a fish": two cavities, one auricle and one ventricle.

Author:  Prior Purvis
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 174: 80
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9355

From George Cupples   12 March 1874

Summary

Promises answers to CD queries on dogs.

Enclosure 1: G. A. Graham responds to CD’s questions (transmitted by GC) on greyhound breeding and proportion of sexes reared.

Enclosure 2: J. W. Robertson’s general rule has been to preserve male deerhound puppies in preference to females.

Enclosure 3: Proportion of sexes in dog litters [for Descent, 2d ed.] from W. Forbes.

Author:  George Cupples
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 161: 302; DAR 90: 114–16, 119–26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9356

From Hubert Airy   13 March 1874

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Has rewritten paper on leaf arrangement after criticism by Royal Society referees. Has found new factor influencing leaf arrangement, i.e., spontaneous variability in the number of vertical leaf-ranks.

Author:  Hubert Airy
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 159: 29
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9357

From Alfred Newton   13 March 1874

Summary

Wishes CD could publish Origin with footnotes.

Increases in bird populations: starlings are increasing, but AN cannot give reason; mistletoe-thrush increasing but not ousting song-thrush. Doubts trustworthiness of [George?] Edwards, CD’s authority in Origin on this matter [see Origin, 6th ed., p. 59].

AN opposed to bird protection legislation to prohibit egging. Argues egging does not decrease number of birds.

Author:  Alfred Newton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 172: 50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9358

To Alfred Newton   14 March 1874

Summary

Can give no definite information. Believes severe winters are by far the most important check on numbers of birds; the destruction of eggs is of subordinate importance.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Newton
Date:  14 Mar 1874
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/62)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9359

From John Phillips   14 March 1874

Summary

Will be out of town, so he cannot vote for Henry Parker.

CD ought to come to see his Cetiosaurus, of which he draws a likeness.

Author:  John Phillips
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 174: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9360

From A. P. Fletcher   14 March 1874

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Asks for a reference for Charles Pearson, who has applied to be appointed an agent for the Company.

Author:  Alexander Pearson Fletcher
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 97: C54v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9361

To A. P. Fletcher   [after 14 March 1874]

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Testifies to the trustworthiness of Charles Pearson.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alexander Pearson Fletcher
Date:  [after 14 Mar 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 97: C54r
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9362
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