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DCP-LETT-9309

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 91–2, 94–7, 102–13, 117–19; DAR 161: 301
Summary:

Answers to queries are being sent.

Enclosure 1: statistics on puppies bred by Rayner in 1873.

Enclosure 2 from W. N. Massey: number of males or females raised depends entirely on preference of greyhound breeders.

Enclosure 3 from E. L. Williams: breeders prefer to destroy bitch pups.

Enclosure 4: Thomas Morse answers CD’s three queries, transmitted by GC: (1) in deerhounds, females predominate, three to one; (2) in all but cattle, females are less worth preserving; (3) TM rears all the young.

Enclosure 5: John Wright responds to CD’s queries about proportion of sexes in births of horses, cattle, and dogs.

Enclosure 6: G. W. Hickman cannot give reliable answers to CD’s queries on proportion of sexes born [in greyhounds?].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9356

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 302; DAR 90: 114–16, 119–26
Summary:

Promises answers to CD queries on dogs.

Enclosure 1: G. A. Graham responds to CD’s questions (transmitted by GC) on greyhound breeding and proportion of sexes reared.

Enclosure 2: J. W. Robertson’s general rule has been to preserve male deerhound puppies in preference to females.

Enclosure 3: Proportion of sexes in dog litters [for Descent, 2d ed.] from W. Forbes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
1 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 27, 29, 32
Summary:

GHD’s article will not do. It is too long and the denial seems weak and confused; also, it ought to be in the form of a letter to the editor. Encloses draft of the sort of letter of denial he thinks GHD should write.

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DCP-LETT-9757

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 350–1, DAR 97: C73
Summary:

Thanks JDH for his and Huxley’s countering of the false attack on George [Darwin] by Mivart. Encloses a note to Mivart on which he asks JDH’s opinion.

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DCP-LETT-9290

From:
Titus Munson Coan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 69: A11, DAR 90: 40–3
Summary:

On the declining population of the Hawaiian Islands [see Descent (1875), pp. 186–7, 187–8 n. 43].

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DCP-LETT-9310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 8a (EH 88205933)
Summary:

CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9554

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19? July 1874]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 53); DAR 58.1: 135–6
Summary:

WED encloses a letter from H. M. Wilkinson about Utricularia and sundew.

H. M. Wilkinson has examined bladders of Utricularia; doubts that they absorb or digest insects.

H. M. Wilkinson describes dragonfly trapped by sundew [Drosera].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9590

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 [Aug] 1874
Source of text:
DAR 97: C56–8; DAR 210.2: 39
Summary:

Sends a draft of his letter to the editor of the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 587–9], answering Mivart’s charges. Encloses draft of CD’s letter to John Murray, urging publication of GHD’s defence, with George’s amendments.

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DCP-LETT-9773

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 356–7; DAR 166: 336
Summary:

Entirely sympathises with CD about Mivart’s attack on George. THH has had a letter from Mivart in which he pleads guilty, but THH has decided there is no patching the matter up. Advises against doing anything unless Mivart takes initiative.

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FL-0232

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[27? September 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 7
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0355

From:
Darwin, Reginald
To:
Darwin?, G. H.
Date:
25 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 5
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0356

From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Galton, E. S.
Date:
25 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 6
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0357

From:
Galton, E. S.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
27 July [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 7
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0358

From:
Galton, E. S.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
30 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 8
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0359

From:
Darwin, Reginald
To:
Darwin?, G. H.
Date:
2 August 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 9
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0585

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
20 October [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0750

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[25 April 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 111
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0751

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[30 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 112
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0752

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[26 August 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 113
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0753

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[5 September 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 114
Summary:

No summary available.

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