To Nature 11 February [1874]
Summary
Prefaces Fritz Müller’s observations on termites and stingless bees [see 9281].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 19 February 1874, pp. 308–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9283 |
To George Harris 12 February 1874
Summary
Has read GH’s proofs and, although not entirely in agreement, has no criticisms worth sending.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Harris |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | University of California Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division (Ms. 10, Letters concerning George Harris’s A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9284 |
From Anton Dohrn 12 February 1874
Summary
Birthday greetings.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9285 |
From T. N. Staley 12 February 1874
Summary
On the decline of population of the Hawaiian Islands, before advent of Europeans; infanticide, polyandry.
| Author: | Thomas Nettleship Staley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 188–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9286 |
To Albert Günther 12 February 1874
Summary
Asks AG to sign an enclosure [see 9291].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9287 |
To Fritz Müller 13 February 1874
Summary
Has sent FM’s letter on termites to Nature ["Habits of various insects", Nature 10 (1874): 102–3].
Would be interested in observations on the stingless bees of Brazil.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 37) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9288 |
To Anton Dohrn 13 February 1874
Summary
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. Would like to send third son [Francis Darwin] to learn art of observing marine animals.
Health indifferent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 711) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9289 |
From T. M. Coan 14 February 1874
Summary
On the declining population of the Hawaiian Islands [see Descent (1875), pp. 186–7, 187–8 n. 43].
| Author: | Titus Munson Coan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A11, DAR 90: 40–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9290 |
From Albert Günther 14 February 1874
Summary
Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9291 |
From Hermann Müller 15 February 1874
Summary
Feels CD’s and Fritz Müller’s judgments on his "Anwendung" essay [see 8313] are of highest value. Mentions some of FM’s comments.
Looks forward to second English edition of Descent.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9293 |
To George Harris 16 February [1874]
Summary
Returns proofs; has no criticisms or remarks worth sending.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Harris |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1874] |
| Classmark: | University of California Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division (Ms. 10, Letters concerning George Harris’s A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9294 |
To H. B. Tristram 16 February 1874
Summary
Asks HBT to sign certificate [for Royal Society] for Robert Swinhoe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Baker Tristram |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9295 |
From A. S. G. Canning 16 February 1874
Summary
Offers information on pea-fowl for new edition of Variation.
| Author: | Albert Stratford George Canning |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9296 |
From J. A. Gammie 16 February 1874
Summary
Sends his observations on the fertilisation of Hedychium gardnerianum by sphinx moths. Did not look for pollen on the wing tips.
| Author: | James Alexander Gammie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157a: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9296A |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 17 February 1874
Summary
Gives the answers of two of the best dog breeders to CD’s queries.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 98–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9298 |
From Octavius Pickard-Cambridge 17 February 1874
Summary
Criticises sexual selection theory. Supports natural selection.
Gives CD references on proportion of sexes in spiders.
| Author: | Octavius Pickard-Cambridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9299 |
To G. E. Shuttleworth 17 February [1874]
Summary
At the suggestion of Crichton-Browne CD writes on behalf of his son George, who is making a study of marriages between first cousins and of their offspring to determine the proportion of the latter who may be among the insane, deaf and dumb, idiotic, blind etc. Is GES willing to ask his patients [at the Royal Albert Asylum] for the information relevant to this study?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Edward Shuttleworth |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1874] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5134) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9299A |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 18 February 1874
Summary
Thanks for answering his query on greyhound puppies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9300 |
To L. D. Blake 18 February 1874
Summary
Does not believe in the possibilty of dog suicide.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lillie Devereux Blake |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | Blake 1888, pp. 47–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9300F |
From John Wright to George Cupples 18 February 1874
| Author: | unknown |
| Addressee: | unknown |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 107–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9301 |
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