To William Waring 6 January 1874
Summary
CD has previously received information on colours of greyhounds. Now asks whether breeders rear all puppies, and, if not, do they selectively rear more males or females?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Waring |
Date: | 6 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Kent History and Library Centre (CKS-U1906/Z/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9228 |
To B. J. Sulivan 6 January [1874]
Summary
Thanks BJS for the missionary pamphlet and his good account of the Fuegians.
Is under the care of Andrew Clark, and feels "very old & helpless".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 6 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9229 |
To ? 8 June 1874
Summary
Asks about insects and seeds on leaves of Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 8 June 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.435) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9230 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 January 1874
Summary
Thanks JDH for Asa Gray’s interesting letter.
Would like JDH’s copy of Coral reefs. Needs it for corrections for a new edition. Cannot buy one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 310; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray Correspondence: Letter from Gray to Hooker, folio 658) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9231 |
From Hubert Airy 8 January 1874
Summary
W. J. Beal’s paper ["Phyllotaxis of cones", Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 449–53] shows incompleteness of HA’s theory, but does not invalidate his basic principles on origin of leaf arrangement or the broad applicability of the theory.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9232 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 8 January 1874
Summary
Pleased they will publish a new edition of Coral reefs, and he will soon consider any addenda and write a short preface.
Will return the wood-blocks of Journal of Researches the following week.
Could his copy of Coral Reefs please be returned.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9233F |
To Horace Darwin 9 January [1874]
Summary
CD is glad Horace has done "pretty well" in his examination.
Smith and Elder will publish new edition of Coral reefs [1874]; thanks HD for aid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9234 |
From William Waring 9 January 1874
Summary
Breeders normally destroy weak and puny puppies in large litters, but would keep females if only one or two.
Author: | William Waring |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 76–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9235 |
To Andrew Clark 10 January [1874]
Summary
Invites AC to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Clark, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.436) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9236 |
To William Waring 12 January [1874]
Summary
CD requests WW to ask a large breeder of greyhounds whether the increase in litters requires that some puppies be destroyed. If so, is it sufficient to destroy merely the small and weak? Would this result in more males or females being destroyed?
CD once used the Field to tabulate ratios of female to male births in greyhounds (110: 100).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Waring |
Date: | 12 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | Kent History and Library Centre (CKS-U1906/Z/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9238 |
To T. N. Staley 13 January [1874]
Summary
Has read TNS’s article ["On the geography and recent volcanic eruption of the Sandwich Islands", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 38 (1868): 361–9].
Asks for information on decline in population and infanticide in the Sandwich Islands. Seeks corroboration of A. Bishop’s reports.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Nettleship Staley |
Date: | 13 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | The Hawaiian Historical Society (MS B St1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9239 |
To Charles Lyell [13 January 1874]
Summary
The coral-reef book has been invaluable [J. D. Dana, Corals and coral islands (1872); used by CD in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)].
Thanks for Saturday Review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [13 Jan 1874] |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9240 |
To C. L. Denison 14 January 1874
Summary
Seeks information on the number of Pitcairn islanders and the effect on their fertility of the transfer to Norfolk Island.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Lucy Denison |
Date: | 14 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Australia (MS 73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9241 |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 January 1874
Summary
Wants CD to propose him for the Royal Society.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 337 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9242 |
From H. T. Stainton 15 January 1874
Summary
Encloses R. McLachlan’s certificate of nomination for Royal Society. Hopes CD will sign it, as McLachlan is the most philosophic member of the Entomological Society in years.
Author: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9243 |
From William Dealtry 16 January 1874
Summary
On the increases in crossbred English and Tahitian population of Pitcairn islanders. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 190.] Includes copy of letter from George Hunn Nobbs about the population of Norfolk Island.
Author: | William Dealtry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 30–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9244 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 17 January 1874
Summary
French translation of Expression sent for CD’s approval.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9245 |
From C. L. Denison 17 January [1874]
Summary
Sends CD the number of Pitcairn islanders transferred to Norfolk Island cited in her deceased husband’s book [Sir William Thomas Denison, Varieties of a vice-regal life (1870)] but is unable to furnish additional information.
Author: | Caroline Lucy Denison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9246 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 January [1874]
Summary
Reports on a séance. "The Lord have mercy on us all if we have to believe in such rubbish."
Asks JDH to vote for his nephew, Henry Parker, for Athenaeum membership.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 311–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9247 |
From J. V. Carus 19 January 1874
Summary
A new German edition of Descent is planned. Would like to work on proofs before leaving for lectures at Edinburgh.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9248 |
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