To ? [before 22 May 1877?]
Summary
Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [before 22 May 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8932 |
To ? 18 July [1873?]
Summary
Comments on ability of recipient to move his scalp.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 July [1873?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.430) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8982 |
To Nature [before 24 July 1873]
Summary
Sends a letter from J. D. Hague confirming his earlier observation [see 8788] of frightened behaviour of ants when they come upon dead ants. CD had asked for confirmation because J. T. Moggridge had suggested that the ants’ behaviour was alarm at the scent of the observer’s fingers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 24 July 1873] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 24 July 1873, p. 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8985 |
To ? [June–September 1873?]
Summary
Printed memorandum giving reasons why there should be subsidy on a large scale of scientific research unencumbered with teaching.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [June–Sept 1873?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (T. H. Huxley papers Mss.B.H981) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9040G |
To Nature 20 September [1873]
Summary
CD, in commenting on Wyville Thomson’s "Notes from the Challenger" [Nature 8 (1873): 347–9], recapitulates his work on rudimentary male cirripedes [Living Cirripedia], especially the complementary males attached to hermaphrodites. Offers an explanation, on evolutionary grounds, of their function and size.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 25 September 1873, pp. 431–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061 |
To ? 28 November [1873]
Summary
Will not require assistance of correspondent’s cousin in correcting his MS [2d ed. of Descent]. His son [George] will undertake it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 28 Nov [1873] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9163 |
To ? [1874–5?]
Summary
Although he formed a high opinion of one of the correspondent’s papers, regrets that he could not presume to give an opinion of the merits of a candidate in chemistry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1874–5?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9217 |
To ? 1 January 1874
Summary
CD sends thanks for the honour conferred by his election as an honorary member, though ill health may prevent his taking advantage of the privileges granted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9222 |
To ? 3 January 1874
Summary
Has no objection to having his name appear as honorary member of [unidentified] club.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9224 |
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 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 ? 15 February [1872–4]
Summary
Seeks permission for his son to look for a paper for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | University of California Berkeley, Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources and Public Health Library Special Collections (Darwin Collection QH365.D251) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9292 |
To ? 11 March 1874
Summary
Thanks correspondent for offer of [unidentified] rare book but does not accept it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9351 |
To Nature 6 April [1874]
Summary
Comments on J. T. Moggridge’s article on the fertilisation of Fumaria capreolata [Nature 9 (1874): 423].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 16 April 1874, p. 460 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9393 |
To ? 12 April 1874
Summary
Thanks an unknown correspondent for the 4th edition of his 'remarkable work'.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9405F |
To Nature 18 April [1874]
Summary
CD has observed hundreds of primrose flowers cut off their stalks, and conjectures that this was done by birds to obtain the nectar. Asks readers of Nature in England and abroad whether primroses are subject to such destruction in their localities.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 23 April 1874, p. 482 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9418 |
From E. T. S. [23–30 April 1874]
Summary
Cancelled: third-party letter from ’ETS’.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23-30 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425J |
To Nature 7 and 11 May [1874]
Summary
Thanks Nature correspondents for their observations on destruction of primroses [Nature 9 (1874): 509; 10 (1874): 6–7]. Reports an error in his observations: ovules, as well as nectar, are taken by the birds. As the habit of cutting off primrose flowers is widespread, CD concludes it is instinctive in bullfinches.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 7 and 11 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 14 May 1874, pp. 24–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9444 |
To Donders [after 15 July 1874]
Summary
Wishes he had known of atropia and hopes he will have time to try it next summer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after 15 July 1874] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 May 1993) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9548F |
From ? 13 September 1874
Summary
An anonymous letter praising the Origin.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9635 |
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