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]
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
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
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
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
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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Huxley, T. H. | (8) |
Brunton, T. L. | (7) |