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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
8 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Ford
Date:
[before 4 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C41
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).]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Charles Hamilton Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore
Date:
Apr 1874
Source of text:
Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius n.s. 8 (1875): 106–9
Summary:

Petition to protect gigantic tortoises on the Mascarene.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster
Date:
[7 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C52–3
Summary:

Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 9 (EH 88205934)
Summary:

Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 5–6)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Apr 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 350–1)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[before 5 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.458)
Summary:

Subscribes to a reprint of Pieter Boddaert’s Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle [check ‘éez’!?] [1874].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Many thanks for Boddaert [see 9389].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
6 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Nature , 16 April 1874, p. 460
Summary:

Comments on J. T. Moggridge’s article on the fertilisation of Fumaria capreolata [Nature 9 (1874): 423].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 [Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 321
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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
8 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 290
Summary:

Discusses illustrations for 2d edition of Descent.

"My nephew [Henry Parker] got into the Athenaeum with splendid success."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/22)
Summary:

Delighted to hear about Coronilla. Urges publication ["Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers– Coronilla", Nature 10 (1874): 169–70].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
10 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 291
Summary:

Is glad to have Descent cheaper and sold more largely, but would be sorry to see it printed like the Origin. "The closeness of the lines is the great fault." Fears book might be very thick. "I hear scores of people complaining of the heavy and thick books which you publish."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Enrico Morselli
Date:
10 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Piero Leonardi (private collection)
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."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
12 Apr 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 348–9)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
12 Apr 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri
Summary:

Thanks an unknown correspondent for the 4th edition of his 'remarkable work'.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
13 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.440)
Summary:

Asks correspondent to obtain odd numbers of Flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Waring
Date:
13 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Kent History and Library Centre (CKS-U1906/Z/1)
Summary:

WW’s information accords with other accounts lately received. CD had formed an erroneous opinion on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project