From O. G. Rejlander 7 February 1874
Summary
Thanks CD for £10 to help with his law case.
| Author: | Oscar Gustaf Rejlander |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9272 |
From B. J. Sulivan 7 February 1874
Summary
The Bishop of Falkland [Waite Hockin Stirling] is coming to visit BJS, who will question him for CD.
Discusses politics; regrets they have been badly beaten by the Tory candidate.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9273 |
From George Cupples 7 February 1874
Summary
Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9274 |
From H. W. Bates 7 February 1874
Summary
Books CD requested have been packed and sent.
He will present CD with the classified catalogue [of Royal Geographical Society].
He has not learned whereabouts of Thomas Staley.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9275 |
From C. G. Semper 8 February 1874
Summary
Comments on G. H. Lewes’s book [The life and works of Goethe (1855)].
| Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9276 |
From Robert Swinhoe 9 February 1874
Summary
Matters of etiquette concerning his certificate for the Royal Society.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 338 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9277 |
From George Harris 10 February 1874
Summary
Sends about 15 sheets on instinct from his book [A philosophical treatise on the nature and constitution of man (1876)] for CD’s comments.
| Author: | George Harris |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9280 |
From Fritz Müller [c. January 1874]
Summary
Agrees with Bates that neuter termites are not modified imagos (sterile females), but modified larvae (of both sexes).
Systematic relations of stingless honey-bees (Melipona and Trigona) are not yet well established.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. Jan 1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 19 February 1874, p. 309 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9281 |
From W. T. Goodale 11 February 1874
Summary
Asks CD if he can reconcile a passage in Mark Hopkins’ Outline study of man [1873] with the theory of development.
| Author: | Walter Temple Goodale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9282 |
From Anton Dohrn 12 February 1874
Summary
Birthday greetings.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9285 |
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 T. M. Coan 14 February 1874
Summary
On the declining population of the Hawaiian Islands [see Descent (1875), pp. 186–7, 187–8 n. 43].
| Author: | Titus Munson Coan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A11, DAR 90: 40–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9290 |
From Albert Günther 14 February 1874
Summary
Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9291 |
From Hermann Müller 15 February 1874
Summary
Feels CD’s and Fritz Müller’s judgments on his "Anwendung" essay [see 8313] are of highest value. Mentions some of FM’s comments.
Looks forward to second English edition of Descent.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9293 |
From A. S. G. Canning 16 February 1874
Summary
Offers information on pea-fowl for new edition of Variation.
| Author: | Albert Stratford George Canning |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9296 |
From J. A. Gammie 16 February 1874
Summary
Sends his observations on the fertilisation of Hedychium gardnerianum by sphinx moths. Did not look for pollen on the wing tips.
| Author: | James Alexander Gammie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157a: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9296A |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 17 February 1874
Summary
Gives the answers of two of the best dog breeders to CD’s queries.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 98–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9298 |
From Octavius Pickard-Cambridge 17 February 1874
Summary
Criticises sexual selection theory. Supports natural selection.
Gives CD references on proportion of sexes in spiders.
| Author: | Octavius Pickard-Cambridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9299 |
From A. S. G. Canning 18 February 1874
Summary
Reports on a female black-winged pea-fowl at his home in Ireland.
| Author: | Albert Stratford George Canning |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9302 |
From T. N. Staley 20 February 1874
Summary
General observations on the native Hawaiian population.
| Author: | Thomas Nettleship Staley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 191–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9307 |
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