From C. L. Denison 17 January [1874]
Summary
Sends CD the number of Pitcairn islanders transferred to Norfolk Island cited in her deceased husband’s book [Sir William Thomas Denison, Varieties of a vice-regal life (1870)] but is unable to furnish additional information.
Author: | Caroline Lucy Denison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9246 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 January [1874]
Summary
Reports on a séance. "The Lord have mercy on us all if we have to believe in such rubbish."
Asks JDH to vote for his nephew, Henry Parker, for Athenaeum membership.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 311–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9247 |
From J. V. Carus 19 January 1874
Summary
A new German edition of Descent is planned. Would like to work on proofs before leaving for lectures at Edinburgh.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9248 |
From J. H. Martin 19 January 1874
Summary
JHM, who has not read CD’s works, must conduct a discussion on Darwinism and theology at a local literary society. He asks CD to define briefly his position on the origin of man and on descent.
Author: | James Hales Martin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9249 |
To C. L. Denison 19 January [1874]
Summary
Finds from the Colonial Office that a census [of the Pitcairn Islands?] is expected soon, from which he will get the information he desires. [See 9241 and 9246.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Lucy Denison |
Date: | 19 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 77, 1994) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9249F |
From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1874
Summary
An awful row at the Linnean Society. William Carruthers and Co. packed a meeting to throw out a decision of the Council. He was beaten by one vote (more than two-thirds majority needed).
Spent two hours with Lyell talking about Thomas Belt’s book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: "the tropical old Glaciers beat the seance I do think".
Lyell agrees that the glacial epoch is the great geological crux of the day. Lowering of the ocean level must also be investigated.
Curious about A. C. Ramsay’s paper coming at Royal Society on 29th ["On the comparative value of certain geological ages", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 22 (1874): 145–8].
Huxley’s new book [? Critiques and addresses (1873)].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 187–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9250 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 20 January 1874
Summary
Russian Expression has sold nearly 2000 copies.
Plans to come to England to study collections of vertebrate fossils from the Chalk. This will complement his work in the south of France.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9251 |
To superintendent of a lunatic asylum 20 January 1874
Summary
Would like recipient to ask inmates whether they are offspring of cousin marriages.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Superintendent of a lunatic asylum |
Date: | 20 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9251F |
To J. V. Carus 21 January 1874
Summary
Is glad to hear of new German edition of Descent, but owing to his extensive revisions, corrected sheets will not be ready for about three months.
Is working on a new edition of Coral reefs, which he thinks would sell in Germany.
Would like to hear "out of curiosity & vanity" how many copies of his books have been sold in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibilothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 110–111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9252 |
To C. G. Semper 21 January [1874]
Summary
Asks for information about the title and date of Semper’s essay disputing CD’s theory of coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Date: | 21 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (8 June 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9252G |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 24 January [1874]
Summary
Has ordered James Clerk Maxwell’s book [On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings (1859)] as a present for Sofya Kovalevsky.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 24 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9253 |
From I. L. Roberti 24 January 1874
Summary
Has grown haricots in England following CD’s suggestion in the Origin that this had never been done.
Wishes to see CD.
Author: | Isaac Louis Roberti |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 183, 183/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9254 |
From C. G. Semper 25 January 1874
Summary
Discusses coral reefs
and encloses a copy of his "Reisebericht" [Z. Wiss. Zool. 13 (1863): 538–70], as requested by CD.
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9255 |
From T. H. Huxley 27 January 1874
Summary
Reports to CD on a spiritualist séance attended by himself (incognito) and G. H. Darwin.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9256 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 27 January 1874
Summary
On obtaining Clerk Maxwell’s memoir on Saturn for his wife, Sofya.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9257 |
To T. H. Huxley 29 January [1874]
Summary
Discusses THH’s account of the séance. CD convinced all are fraudulent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 29 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 377) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9258 |
From John Downing 29 January 1874
Summary
On proportion of sexes in births of cattle; variations in families. Encloses a letter from J. G. Grove on proportions of sexes in animals.
The limitation of inbreeding.
Author: | John Downing |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 79–84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9259 |
From G. H. Darwin 31 January 1874
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9260 |
From D. Appleton & Co. 1 February 1874
Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: A92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9261 |
From K. S. Sievert 1 February 1874
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Examiner.
Fear of communism is making CD’s theory popular among possessing classes.
Describes reception of Lyell’s Antiquity of man among German country people.
Author: | Karl Siegwart Sievert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9262 |
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