From H. H. Bancroft 3 August 1874
Summary
Sends a volume and will send next volumes of a work intended to contribute to the study of mankind.
Author: | Hubert Howe Bancroft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9581 |
From J. T. Knowles 4 August 1874
Summary
Regrets he is unable to republish Whitney’s article in the Contemporary Review. Would much appreciate an article from CD on the subject and suggests that CD might quote from Whitney to any extent he likes.
Author: | James Thomas Knowles |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9582 |
From G. H. Darwin 5 August 1874
Summary
Regrets he cannot follow the line of denial CD suggests. Explains why he must defend himself against charge that he approves of oppressive laws.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9585 |
From H. M. Wilkinson 5 August 1874
Author: | Henry Marlow Wilkinson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 84–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9586 |
From John Tyndall 5 August 1874
Summary
Asks CD to look over those parts of the proofs of his Belfast address [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): lxvi–xcvii] that mention CD.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9587 |
From Leyson Lewis [before 6 August 1874]
Summary
Encloses specimen of a male hop with female flowers. It is the only peculiarity in the ground.
Author: | Leyson Lewis |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 Aug 1874] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 8 August 1874, p. 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9589F |
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 M. T. Masters 6 August 1874
Summary
Thanks for the monoecious hop. It was the first monstrosity he ever observed.
Contemplates an article in Gardeners’ Chronicle on the horticultural bearing of CD’s fertilisation work.
Will publish note forwarded by CD on a male hop with apparently female flowers (Gardeners’ Chronicle, 8 August 1874, p. 174).
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9591 |
From G. H. Darwin [6 or 7 August 1874]
Summary
Urges CD not to break with Murray even if he does not force the editor [of Q. Rev.] to insert GHD’s letter [in response to Mivart’s attack]. Murray may have a rule not to meddle with editor.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 or 7] Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9592 |
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 |
From D. T. Gardner 13 August 1874
Summary
The Club is proposing to celebrate Humboldt’s 105th birthday and would welcome a message from CD.
Author: | Daniel T. Gardner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9600 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 August 1874
Summary
Describes his work on Nepenthes.
Cephalotus is a beast.
His address is a history of Dionaea, Sarracenia, and Drosera.
Thiselton-Dyer has helped enormously except with the observations; but his health is so poor that JDH thinks he is "evidently cut out for a Literate not a working botanist".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 214–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9602 |
From A. V. W. Bikkers 27 August 1874
Summary
Reports on a crossbreed between a duck and a fowl, having duck’s beak, partly webbed feet, and fowl’s feathers.
Author: | Alexander V. W Bikkers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9608 |
From J. A. Gammie 28 August 1874
Summary
Sends his observations on the method of fertilisation of Hedychium coronarium by Sphinx and other hawk-moths.
Author: | James Alexander Gammie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9609 |
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 Henryk Stecki 29 August 1874
Summary
Reports observations on a chicken with a human face.
Author: | Henryk Stecki |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9611 |
From W. C. Marshall 30 August [1874]
Author: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 125–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9612 |
From L. C. Harrison [22 August 1874]
Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 Aug 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 81–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9606 |
From Francis and Amy Darwin 8 August [1874]
Summary
Describe the Pinguicula species found at Mürren. Have found seeds on some. Their large roots seem to indicate that they do not get much animal food.
Author: | Francis Darwin; Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 139–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9595 |
letter | (19) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Bancroft, H. H. | (1) |
Bikkers, A. V. W. | (1) |
Darwin, Amy | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Bancroft, H. H. | (1) |
Bikkers, A. V. W. | (1) |
Darwin, Amy | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Gammie, J. A. | (1) |
Gardner, D. T. | (1) |
Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
Knowles, J. T. | (1) |
Lewis, Leyson | (1) |
Marshall, W. C. | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Ruck, Amy | (1) |
Stecki, Henryk | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
Wedgwood, L. C. | (1) |
Wilkinson, H. M. | (1) |