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From Anton Dohrn   6 April 1874

Summary

His gratitude for CD’s gift. An account of his difficulties with the Zoological Station and his health.

F. M. Balfour has told him that CD would like to see the question of complemental males in cirripedes studied again. AD would like to enter the field and to study the whole morphological development of cirripedes.

Describes the interest in embryological work in Russia and Germany.

Author:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 162: 214
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9394

From Michael Foster   7 April [1874]

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Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station.

Author:  Michael Foster
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Apr [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 164: 165
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9396

From Henry Cecil   9 April 1874

Summary

Has just read Journal of researches and has been charmed out of his anti-Darwinian prejudice.

Author:  Henry Cecil
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 161: 128
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9399

From Berry Benson   10 April 1874

Summary

Supplies evidence to the contrary of CD’s assertion in Expression that dogs do not eat carrion.

Offers to send mud-wasps.

Author:  Berry Benson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 160: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9401

From Leonard Rudd   12 April 1874

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On supernumerary mammae in a male patient.

Author:  Leonard Rudd
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 87: 168–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9405

From William Waring   13 April 1874

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On proportion of sexes in litters of greyhounds.

Author:  William Waring
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 90: 44–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9407

From T. H. Huxley   14 April 1874

Summary

Sends his screed about the brain [for Descent], which he thinks pounds the enemy into a jelly.

Is in good health.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 103: 198–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9409

From Edward Frankland   15 April 1874

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Sends some phosphates of lime free of animal matter [see Insectivorous plants, p. 109].

Author:  Edward Frankland
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 49–50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9411

From T. H. Huxley   16 April 1874

Summary

His note on the brain should be in small type.

Glad CD agrees with him on hand, foot, and skull question.

Has heard from Dohrn.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 166: 333
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9413

From G. H. Darwin   18 April 1874

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Sends queries [on proofs of Descent, 2d ed.]. Will be finished, except for the index, in two days.

Is now less satisfied than formerly with his statistics on cousin marriage.

[Enclosure is a copy by GHD of J. S. Mill’s statement about Origin (Logic 2: 18 n.).]

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 34
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9417

From G. H. Darwin   20 April 1874

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Sends Descent material. Is staggered by CD’s power of marshalling facts and his conciseness and clearness of thought. The only fault he finds is some slight want of conciseness of diction.

He feels CD’s power more now "that I quail before the thought of arranging the few paltry facts I’ve got about those d––d cousins".

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 35
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9421

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

From Fritz Müller   20 April [1874]

Summary

FM gives his own observations of leaf-cutting ants, which support those of Thomas Belt in his book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1873)]. [See 9223.] These ants feed only upon the fungus that grows upon the leaves that they carry to their nests.

He has caught a moth of the Glaucopidæ that when touched emitted a cloud of snow-white wool.

Observations on the stingless bees of Brazil.

Author:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr [1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 11 June 1874, pp. 102–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9422A

From Henry Cecil   21 April 1874

Summary

Affirms his belief in an impassable spiritual gulf between man and the lower creatures.

Author:  Henry Cecil
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 161: 129
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9424

From Charles Lyell   24 April 1874

Summary

Will subscribe £25 towards F. A. Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Apr 1874
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Lyell correspondence Mss.B.L981)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9426F

From J. S. Burdon Sanderson   25 April 1874

Summary

Purpose of experiments was to determine digestive activity of liquids containing pepsin. Gives required amounts of hydrochloric, propionic, butyric and valerianic acids. Describes experiment and gives results. Also experimented on digestive activity of butyric acid at greater temperatures than the termperature of the body.

Author:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 58.2: 65–70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9427F

From C. J. Monro   26 April 1874

Summary

Sends cherry blossoms damaged by birds in response to CD’s letter in Nature ["Flowers of the primrose", Collected papers 2: 183–4].

Author:  Cecil James Monro
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 171: 230
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9428

From W. B. Dawkins   26 April 1874

Summary

Asks CD’s support for his application for the Chair of Geology at Oxford.

Author:  William Boyd Dawkins
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 162: 128
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9429

From Edward Frankland   26 April 1874

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Bullfinches’ instinctive capacity for removing nectaries from cowslips.

Author:  Edward Frankland
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 164: 210
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9430

From A. S. G. Canning   27 April 1874

Summary

Further particulars on pea-fowl.

Author:  Albert Stratford George Canning
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 161: 43
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9431
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