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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
10 November [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
22 November [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
15 November [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.24
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
25 November 1874
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.25
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[29 November 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 302
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Farrer, T. H.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
26 November 1874
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1566
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[Nov 1874 – May 1880]
Source of text:
Ms Caroline Waid (private collection)
Summary:
Orders a copy of Dassen 1837, Onderzoek aangaande de bladbewegingen (research on leaf movements), published in Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie IV p. 106.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[Nov 1874 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:
Invites FG to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Wilhelm Spengel
Date:
27 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB) (Mscr. Dresd. s 762)
Summary:
Thanks for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Mellard Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 28
Summary:
Sends his paper ["Tidal action as a geological cause", Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. 2 (1874): 50–72].
Has not yet studied CD’s list of South American molluscs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Nov 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 43
Summary:
Spottiswoode is pressing for an answer to invitation to GHD to lecture at the Royal Institution. GHD is having MS of the paper he has written sent to CD, so that CD can advise whether he should accept the invitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 342
Summary:
CD may keep the photograph of "the holy Mary of Egypt". TLB may have been led away by his imagination in thinking that one side of the face expressed repentance and the other devout joy.
Comments on David Ferrier’s observations on electrical stimulation of the brain. Extent of response relates to intensity of stimulus.
Crichton-Browne’s observations on the asymmetry of convolutions on the two sides of the brains of maniacs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
3 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112)
Summary:
Thanks JF for copy of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 441
Summary:
Statement of stock on hand of CD’s works.
Expression, curiously, at a dead stand-still.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Nov 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 44
Summary:
GHD has been using E. Norman [CD’s copyist], and he apologises if this has caused delays to CD’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 19] Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 93
Summary:
Accepts CD’s suggestion of new edition of Descent, and asks that Murray supply the stereotype plates and woodcuts for $50 [dollars or pounds!?], as soon as possible; supply of copies of Descent is exhausted.
Will publish CD’s proposed book [Insectivorous plants (1875)] on same terms as other works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
5 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 344)
Summary:
Thanks JM for granting his request. Will write to D. Appleton.
CD is sorry about heavy loss from Expression; still thinks the book will sell in the course of years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 37
Summary:
Mainly family news.
Eager to read GHD’s political economy MS "though Heaven knows whether I shall understand it".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
D. Appleton & Co
Date:
5 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 97: C63–4
Summary:
Has just had printed a new edition of Descent [1874] and is anxious that this improved version be circulated in America.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William James Beal
Date:
9 Nov 1874
Source of text:
Sarah Baker Topper (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks WJB for his reference [see 9691]. Is curious fact that the humble bees did not use the pollen, but the hive bees did.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
- Beal, W. J.1
- Bentham, George1
- Carus, J. V.1
- D. Appleton & Co1
- Darwin, C. R.18
- Darwin, Emma2
- Darwin, G. H.4
- Darwin, Horace1
- Darwin, Leonard3
- Down School Board1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Fiske, John1
- Galton, Francis1
- Gray, Asa1
- Hooker, J. D.4
- Kemp, W. G.1
- King, George1
- Köppen, F. T.1
- McLennan, J. F.1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von3
- Murray, John (b)1
- Murray, John, III1
- Noiré, Ludwig1
- Ramsay, Edward1
- Ramsay, Robert1
- Rawlinson, Henry1
- Sharpe, R. B.1
- Smyth, William1
- Spengel, J. W.1
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner2
- Unidentified1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Williams & Norgate1
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