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
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
Summary
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
Summary
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]
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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