To John Lubbock 8 April [1874]
Summary
Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8283 |
From T. H. Farrer [before 10 April 1874]
Summary
Observations on Coronilla.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 10 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8854 |
To G. H. Ford [before 4 April 1874]
Summary
Regrets that a cut [for Descent] does not do justice to TWW’s original drawing and if it cannot be improved then CD will have to omit it. [Refers to fig. 60 in Descent (1874).]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Ford |
| Date: | [before 4 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9220 |
From G. J. Romanes to Herbert Spencer [April 1874]
Summary
Discusses at length the factors acting in reducing rudimentary organs, and their relative importance.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
| Date: | [Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 52: D10–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9382 |
To A. C. H. Gordon April 1874
Summary
Petition to protect gigantic tortoises on the Mascarene.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Charles Hamilton Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore |
| Date: | Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius n.s. 8 (1875): 106–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9382F |
To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874]
Summary
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C52–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9384 |
From T. G. Appleton 2 April 1874
Summary
Sends old Japanese picture suggesting evolution, found by Charles Longfellow.
Is pleased to hear CD attended a séance [18 Jan 1874]; asks for his views about communication among spirits.
| Author: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9385 |
From John Lubbock 2 April 1874
Summary
Is willing to sell the land CD wants for £300.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 198: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9385F |
To John Lubbock 3 April 1874
Summary
Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 9 (EH 88205934) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9386 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 4 April 1874
Summary
Wants some plants for observation and for experimentation on their powers of movement.
Asks WTT-D to make observations on plants with sensitive stamens or pistil.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 4 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 5–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9387 |
To John Murray 4 April 1874
Summary
Has finished corrections for 2d edition of Descent – "as hard work as I have ever had in my life". Estimates it is 40 pages longer than 1st edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 4 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 350–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9388 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [before 5 April 1874]
Summary
Subscribes to a reprint of Pieter Boddaert’s Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle [check ‘éez’!?] [1874].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | [before 5 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.458) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9389 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 April 1874
Summary
Many thanks for Boddaert [see 9389].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 5 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9390 |
From J. V. Carus 5 April 1874
Summary
Hopes to visit CD during a stay in London.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9391 |
From W. W. Reade 6 April [1874]
Summary
Just back from Gold Coast.
Would like to become a member of the Royal Institution.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9392 |
To Nature 6 April [1874]
Summary
Comments on J. T. Moggridge’s article on the fertilisation of Fumaria capreolata [Nature 9 (1874): 423].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 16 April 1874, p. 460 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9393 |
From Anton Dohrn 6 April 1874
Summary
His gratitude for CD’s gift. An account of his difficulties with the Zoological Station and his health.
F. M. Balfour has told him that CD would like to see the question of complemental males in cirripedes studied again. AD would like to enter the field and to study the whole morphological development of cirripedes.
Describes the interest in embryological work in Russia and Germany.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9394 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 [April 1874]
Summary
C. V. Riley’s case of Pronuba moth and the fertilisation of Yucca, is the most wonderful case of fertilisation ever published [Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 619–23].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 [Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 321 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9395 |
From Michael Foster 7 April [1874]
Summary
Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9396 |
From Emma Darwin to Albert Günther 7 April [1874]
Summary
Invites AG to stay at Down.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9397 |
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| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Benson, Berry | (1) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Canning, A. S. G. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Cecil, Henry | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Frankland, Edward | (3) |
| François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
| Gladstone, J. H. | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Key, H. C. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Meteyard, Eliza | (1) |
| Monro, C. J. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Reade, W. W. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Rudd, Leonard | (1) |
| Seabroke, G. M. | (1) |
| Stebbing, T. R. R. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Waring, William (b) | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| 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) |
