From J. D. Hooker [29 August 1874]
Summary
Lady Dorothy Nevill is CD’s best chance for Dionaea.
Reports on Belfast meeting of BAAS. Lubbock’s lecture went off admirably. Huxley’s was the magnum opus.
Encloses letter from Mrs Barber on protective coloration of animals.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Aug 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 219–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9610 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 October 1874
Summary
Oliver will attend to his letter.
Tells of discovery and rediscovery of Aldrovanda.
Asks what CD thinks of "old Pritchard’s discourse" [C. Pritchard, Natural science and natural religion (1874)]. Does not affect evolution at all. It does affect the rather unprofitable doctrine of materialism.
His plans for the Royal Society Presidential Address.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 226–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9673 |
To Auguste Forel 19 June 1876
Summary
Asks how the Coleoptera that inhabit the nests of ants colonise a new nest. Wallace has suggested their ova become attached to winged female ants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel |
| Date: | 19 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:794) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10539 |
From G. H. Darwin 29 July 1874
Summary
After taking advice he has decided to write an explicit denial and short account of his essay and send it to the Quarterly Review.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9575 |
From T. H. Huxley 23 December 1874
Summary
Entirely sympathises with CD about Mivart’s attack on George. THH has had a letter from Mivart in which he pleads guilty, but THH has decided there is no patching the matter up. Advises against doing anything unless Mivart takes initiative.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 356–7; DAR 166: 336 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9773 |
To G. H. Darwin 1 August [1874]
Summary
GHD’s article will not do. It is too long and the denial seems weak and confused; also, it ought to be in the form of a letter to the editor. Encloses draft of the sort of letter of denial he thinks GHD should write.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 27, 29, 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9580 |
From G. H. Darwin 24 October 1874
Summary
GHD explains conduction, radiation, and convection.
His paper on political economy for Royal Institution lecture has reached 60 pages. Plans to send it to Contemporary Review.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 54; 210.2: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9695 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 February 1880
Summary
Has read Butler’s letter and CD’s draft reply and Litchfield’s letter. Has no hesitation in saying CD should take no notice. Litchfield’s advice is judicious.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B82–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12457 |
To A. R. Wallace 17 June 1876
Summary
Further detailed comments on Geographical distribution.
Base treatment [of George Darwin] by Mivart in Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 17 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10538 |
From Eliza Meteyard 20 April 1874
Summary
The memorial failed last autumn. She asks for CD’s signature again so that it may be presented now that there is a new Government.
Her [Wedgwood] Handbook is now in press.
| Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9422 |
To R. B. Litchfield 24 April [1875]
Summary
Sir John Lubbock’s advice on draft of petition on vivisection. Agrees with Lubbock’s opinion that a bill would be more effective – but the more the subject is stirred up, the better.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
| Date: | 24 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9946 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 12 October [1874]
Summary
Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9674 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 December 1874
Summary
Thanks JDH for his and Huxley’s countering of the false attack on George [Darwin] by Mivart. Encloses a note to Mivart on which he asks JDH’s opinion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 350–1, DAR 97: C73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9757 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 4 March 1873
Summary
Recounts the difficulties in preparing the French translation of Origin: the 1870 war, the illness and death of J. J. Moulinié, the alterations and additions from the 6th English edition. Despite competition from Royer’s three editions, Reinwald is contemplating a new edition.
Descent, vol. 1, has almost sold out. Offers CD £40 for rights to reprint a corrected version of Descent.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8797 |
To B. D. Walsh 19 December [1865]
Summary
Discusses a variety of subjects: Cynips, galls, potato bugs,
male Daphnia laying eggs.
His Primula experiment results differ from John Scott’s.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 19 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4952 |
Llewelyn, T. M. (1834–1926)
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Lubbock to ask if Darwin would be willing to send Thereza copies of two texts for use in her botanical studies. Darwin responded to this request and sent the Maskelynes a couple of memoirs, as evidenced by a thank you note Nevil Maskelyne sent on behalf of his wife, who was an invalid at the time. Thereza wrote about both photography and astronomy. Darwin was aware of observations she made of her canary and siskin attacking flowers: he cited her observations in an 1874 …
From G. H. Darwin 30 May 1874
Summary
Intends to keep working on [Descent, 2d ed.] proofs despite his illness.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9475 |
From W. D. Fox 8 May [1874]
Summary
Has left Delamere and settled on the Isle of Wight.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9446 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Lubbock’s Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura was published by the Ray Society ( Lubbock 1873 ). Silverfish belong to the genus Lepisma in the order Thysanura. William Erasmus Darwin was a partner in the Maddison, Atherley, Hankinson and Darwin bank in Southampton ( Banking almanac 1874). …
To James Crichton-Browne 5 January 1874
Summary
Requests help for George Darwin’s investigation of marriages of first cousins. Seeks to determine proportion of first-cousin offspring among the insane, deaf and dumb, blind, etc.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 347 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9227 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Lubbock, 17 July 1870 ). George had written an article based on his earlier investigations, ‘On beneficial restrictions to liberty of marriage’ ( G. H. Darwin 1873a ). He published his later researches in an article on cousin marriage in 1875 ( G. H. Darwin 1875a ). CD was in London from 10 to 17 January 1874. …
From Francis Darwin [4 May 1875]
Summary
Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 May 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9961G |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Lubbock, 3 May [1875] and n. 3). The golden-crested wren or goldcrest ( Regulus regulus ) builds a three-layered nest on the branches of coniferous trees. The nest has an outer layer of mosses and lichens bound together and to the conifer branch with strands of cobweb, a middle layer of flimsy mosses and lichens, and an inner layer made up of hair, feathers, and downy seeds ( Birds of the world 11: 340). Francis probably wanted a garden syringe to continue CD’s experiments on how plants move in order to avoid damage by rain; in 1874, …
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