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To Alfred Newton 9 March [1874]
Summary
Asks AN to vote for CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, at the Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 9 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/60) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9344 |
To Alfred Newton 12 March [1874]
Summary
Cannot answer AN’s questions about Origin; it would take weeks to find the references. Assures AN he stated nothing without an authority he thought good.
Feels sure missel thrushes have increased in number since his youth. Starlings have also increased astonishingly in Kent. "How inexplicable most of these cases are".
In a P.S. remembers his source for statement about increase of missel thrushes in Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/61) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9354 |
To Alfred Newton 14 March 1874
Summary
Can give no definite information. Believes severe winters are by far the most important check on numbers of birds; the destruction of eggs is of subordinate importance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/62) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9359 |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Newton, Alfred | (3) |
