From John Murray 12 August 1874
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s complaint against a paper [by St George Mivart] in the last Quarterly Review [see 9568]. Agrees to print George Darwin’s answer [see 9596].
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 41914 p. 203) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9599A |
To John Murray 5 November [1874]
Summary
Thanks JM for granting his request. Will write to D. Appleton.
CD is sorry about heavy loss from Expression; still thinks the book will sell in the course of years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 5 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 344) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9710 |
To John Murray 14 December 1874
Summary
Sends a suggested title [for Insectivorous plants?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 14 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 342–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9758 |
To John Murray 9 May [1874]
Summary
Recommends that JM consider publishing a new edition of J. F. McLennan’s Primitive marriage [1865]. CD considers it very valuable and not too indelicate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 May [1874] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 347–347A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9451 |
To John Murray 11 August 1874
Summary
Asks JM, as a favour, to use his influence with the Editor of Quarterly Review to print George Darwin’s answer to the charge made by the author of "Primitive man" [St George Mivart] that GD approved "of the encouragement of vice to check population".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 11 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 48–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9598 |
To John Murray 18 October 1874
Summary
Thanks for Quarterly Review [Oct 1874, containing G. H. Darwin’s letter and a rejoinder]. Is convinced the author is Mivart. Is therefore not surprised at malice in the article attacking his son [George Darwin] and grossly misrepresenting CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 18 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 345–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9685 |
From John Murray 29 July [1874]
Summary
Orchids is at last sold out. Settles account.
The Origin [6th ed.] is making good [sales] progress.
Expression is not selling.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.11: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9574 |
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 |
From John Murray 3 November 1874
Summary
Statement of stock on hand of CD’s works.
Expression, curiously, at a dead stand-still.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 441 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9707 |
To John Murray 12 April 1874
Summary
Discusses 2d edition of Descent. CD is inclined to a cheap edition and asks JM to consider a one-volume edition in double-column format.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 348–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9404 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks for information about Hedychium. Hopes wings of Sphinx will be found covered with pollen for that will be a fine bit of prophecy from the structure of a flower to special and new means of fertilisation.
Has been at Descent so hard he has done nothing, not even H. Spencer’s answer.
Has not yet read Croll ["Ocean currents", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 47 (1874): 94–122, 168–90].
Has heard nothing about Carter and Eozoon. Eozoon, he infers, is done for.
Has read Belt [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: best of all natural history travel books.
Has written to Fritz Müller about leaf-carrying ants.
Hopes to resume work on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 317–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9372 |
From G. H. Darwin 6 [August] 1874
Summary
Sends a draft of his letter to the editor of the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 587–9], answering Mivart’s charges. Encloses draft of CD’s letter to John Murray, urging publication of GHD’s defence, with George’s amendments.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 [Aug] 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C56–8; DAR 210.2: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9590 |
From Asa Gray 12 May 1874
Summary
Encloses letter and sketch from O. N. Rood on pointed ears.
Reports observations on Sarracenia variolaris. A correspondent finds that the fluid in the pitchers is anaesthetic and that a sweet trail runs down the plant, nearly to the ground, to lure up ants.
Encloses two articles on insectivorous plants [Nation 18 (1874): 216–17, 232–4].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9455 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 July 1874
Summary
Thinks Frank and he have worked out Pinguicula well and they long to attack Utricularia. Tried several plants with sticky glandular hairs; some few absorb ammonia, but the greater number do not. If JDH sends plant or seed of Lychnis CD will examine it to see whether it catches many flies. Asa Gray has written him much about Sarracenia, with a specimen showing the splendid dodge by which ground insects are enticed up and then drowned. Describes how it may be investigated, to see whether it absorbs decayed matter from flies, or ammonia thus generated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 322–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9529 |
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 |
From Ernst Haeckel 26 October 1874
Summary
Thanks CD for Descent, 2d ed.
Comments on German edition of CD’s collected works.
Sales of his Anthropogenie [1874] in various countries.
Anticlericalism and progress of Darwinism in Germany.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9698 |
To Thomas Meehan 9 October 1874
Summary
Doubts whether sudden and great variations often occur.
Comments on colours of flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 353 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9672 |
From J. F. McLennan 5 May 1874
Summary
Would like to see C. S. Wake’s paper ["Marriage among primitive peoples", Anthropologia 1 (1873–5): 197–207].
Will return L. H. Morgan’s work [? Systems of consanguinity (1871)].
Murray suggests Macmillan’s are more likely to reprint JFMcL’s Primitive marriage.
Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9442 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray was CD’s publisher. CD referred to McLennan’s Primitive marriage ( McLennan 1865 ) extensively in Descent , and helped to arrange a US edition (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter from J. F. McLennan, 21 August 1871 ). The first edition of McLennan 1865 was published by Adam and Charles Black of Edinburgh. No second edition was published. Andrew Clark was also treating CD (see letter to B. …
From Thomas Meehan 22 September 1874
Summary
Sends CD his photo
and a copy of his address at Hartford ["Change by gradual modification not the universal law", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1874) pt 2: 7–12]. Does not believe his observations are unfavourable to natural selection but feels there are other factors involved in the origin of form.
Discusses further his work on colour and sex in plants; the linking of high colour and maleness.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9651 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray. 1877. Meehan, Thomas. 1869. On the sexes of plants. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1869): 256–60. Meehan, Thomas. 1874. Change by gradual modification not the universal law. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1873) pt B: …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 20 January 1874
Summary
Russian Expression has sold nearly 2000 copies.
Plans to come to England to study collections of vertebrate fossils from the Chalk. This will complement his work in the south of France.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9251 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … B. Cohen. 3 vols. New York: Columbia University Press. 1998. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Cross and self fertilisation : The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. …
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