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 |
To John Lubbock 8 April [1874]
Summary
Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 8 Apr [1874] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8283 |
To G. H. Ford [before 4 April 1874]
Summary
Regrets that a cut [for Descent] does not do justice to TWW’s original drawing and if it cannot be improved then CD will have to omit it. [Refers to fig. 60 in Descent (1874).]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Ford |
Date: | [before 4 Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9220 |
To A. C. H. Gordon April 1874
Summary
Petition to protect gigantic tortoises on the Mascarene.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Charles Hamilton Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore |
Date: | Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius n.s. 8 (1875): 106–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9382F |
To John Lubbock 3 April 1874
Summary
Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 3 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 9 (EH 88205934) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9386 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 4 April 1874
Summary
Wants some plants for observation and for experimentation on their powers of movement.
Asks WTT-D to make observations on plants with sensitive stamens or pistil.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 4 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 5–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9387 |
To John Murray 4 April 1874
Summary
Has finished corrections for 2d edition of Descent – "as hard work as I have ever had in my life". Estimates it is 40 pages longer than 1st edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 350–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9388 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [before 5 April 1874]
Summary
Subscribes to a reprint of Pieter Boddaert’s Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle [check ‘éez’!?] [1874].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | [before 5 Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.458) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9389 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 April 1874
Summary
Many thanks for Boddaert [see 9389].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 5 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9390 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 [April 1874]
Summary
C. V. Riley’s case of Pronuba moth and the fertilisation of Yucca, is the most wonderful case of fertilisation ever published [Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 619–23].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 [Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9395 |
To Enrico Morselli 10 April 1874
Summary
Thanks EM for essay ["Sopra un rara anomalia dell’osso malare", Annu. Soc. Nat. Modena 7 (1873): 1–50]. CD agrees as far as he understands. Cannot see how new modifications could arise by atavism. "The more I study nature, the more I feel convinced that species generally change by extremely slight modifications."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Enrico Morselli |
Date: | 10 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | Piero Leonardi (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9403 |
To John Murray 12 April 1874
Summary
Discusses 2d edition of Descent. CD is inclined to a cheap edition and asks JM to consider a one-volume edition in double-column format.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 348–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9404 |
To Edward Frankland 12 April 1874
Summary
Finding that the leaves of Drosera digest all the phosphate of lime out of bones and then remain clasped over the bones for a long time, CD wants to determine whether it is the phosphate of lime or the animal matter in the bones that keeps them clasped. He asks EF to send 2 or 3 grams of pure phosphate of lime for his testing. [See 9411.] Will experiment in the summer using EF’s suggestion that leaves might serve to test weak sewage. Results of Sanderson’s experiments with acids of great use.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9405A |
To Williams & Norgate 13 April [1874]
Summary
Asks correspondent to obtain odd numbers of Flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 13 Apr [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.440) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9406 |
To William Waring 13 April 1874
Summary
WW’s information accords with other accounts lately received. CD had formed an erroneous opinion on the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Waring |
Date: | 13 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | Kent History and Library Centre (CKS-U1906/Z/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9408 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 April 1874
Summary
Thanks for the seeds and plants that he requested.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 15 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9410 |
To Anton Dohrn 16 April and 9 August 1874
Summary
Has written to J. Murray to have account of the Zoological Station inserted in the Murray guidebook.
The circular about the Station has been printed; some have already signed.
Received R. Kossman’s paper on Anelasma ["Untersuchungen über die durch Parasitismus hervorgerufenen Umbildungen in der Familie der Pedunculata", Verh. Phys.-med. Ges. Würz. N. F. 5 (1874): 129–57]. The case is the most interesting ever recorded of gradation, i.e., from an animal with a stomach to one with roots like a plant.
Delighted he will examine the complemental males of Scalpellum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 16 Apr and 9 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 702) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9414 |
To W. M. Hacon 16 April [1874]
Summary
CD’s son Francis is to be married, so CD is seeking advice as to how much he should arrange as a marriage-settlement.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
Date: | 16 Apr [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C50–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9415 |
letter | (35) |
Frankland, Edward | (4) |
Foster, Michael | (3) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Ford, G. H. | (1) |
Foster, Michael | (3) |
Frankland, Edward | (4) |
François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
Gordon, A. C. H. | (1) |
Hacon, W. M. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
John Murray | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Merriam, C. H. | (1) |
Morselli, Enrico | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Nature | (2) |
Rudd, Leonard | (1) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Waring, William (b) | (1) |
Willett, Henry | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (1) |