To T. H. Farrer 18 January [1874]
Summary
Thanks THF for information from Colonial Office on population statistics showing the inhabitants of some areas are far from becoming sterile.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 18 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362 |
From T. L. Brunton 23 May 1874
Summary
Comments on his examination of slides [of milk casein?] sent by CD.
Surprised by CD’s finding that a drop of one per cent hydrochloric acid stops digestion of albumen by Drosera.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 120–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10512 |
To Williams & Norgate [November 1874 – May 1880]
Summary
Orders a copy of Dassen 1837, Onderzoek aangaande de bladbewegingen (research on leaf movements), published in Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie IV p. 106.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [Nov 1874 – May 1880] |
Classmark: | Ms Caroline Waid (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11028F |
From Emma Darwin to ? [October 1874 – April 1882]
Summary
CD cannot come to London to sit for photograph. Sends one taken by son [Leonard], which family considers the best likeness. CD would be glad to give a sitting at Down.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Oct 1874 – Apr 1882] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 62.10.1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13792 |
To Francis Darwin [after 23 July 1874]
Summary
Asks for a specimen of Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 23 July 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13796 |
To Francis Galton [November 1874 – April 1882]
Summary
Invites FG to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | [Nov 1874 – Apr 1882] |
Classmark: | The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13811 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 23 May [1874 or 1875?]
Summary
"With kind regards, & many thanks for Prof. Steenstrup’s Photograph, which is most highly valued by C. Darwin"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 23 May [1874-5] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (tipped into a copy of Orchids) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5098 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 June [1874]
Summary
Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 24 June [1874] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6405F |
To G. H. Darwin 30 January [1874?]
Summary
Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan [1874?] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7466F |
To H. E. Litchfield 16 February [1874?]
Summary
On the "doubtful & obscure" subject of marriage of cousins, CD believes, that judging from the analogy of animals, no direct evil would follow from their marriage. He would, however, expect the offspring of unrelated parents to be somewhat superior in size and vigour. The injury from the increase of any bad tendency common to the family seems to CD more to be feared than mere consanguinity; "the good effects of crossing distinct families I look at as great & undoubted".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 16 Feb [1874?] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8207 |
To C. S. Tomes 16 February [1874]
Summary
Thanks for facts on inheritance
Thinks CST’s paper (C. S. Tomes 1874) about the enamel on the teeth of the armadillo is most remarkable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Sissmore Tomes |
Date: | 16 Feb [1874] |
Classmark: | Andrusier Autographs (dealer) (Spring 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8216F |
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 |
To J. W. Spengel 27 November [1874]
Summary
Thanks for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Wilhelm Spengel |
Date: | 27 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB) (Mscr. Dresd. s 762) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8650F |
From Leonard Darwin [after 14 February 1874]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Feb 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8709 |
From H. H. Howorth 3 January [1874]
Author: | Henry Hoyle Howorth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8722 |
From ? [after 14 January 1874]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Jan 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8794 |
From T. H. Farrer [before 10 April 1874]
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 |
From C. S. Tomes [before 16 February 1874]
Summary
Inherited dental abnormalities in man. [Enclosed are proofs of pp. 113–16 from J. Tomes, A system of dental surgery, 2d ed. (1873).]
Author: | Charles Sissmore Tomes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 16 Feb 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9195 |
From Leonard Darwin [before 27 June 1874]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 27 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9196 |
From W. de W. Abney to Leonard Darwin [before 27 June 1874]
Summary
Answers questions about chemistry (see 9202).
Author: | William de Wiveleslie Abney |
Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
Date: | [before 27 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9196F |
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