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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 116
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1874–8]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 250
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1892
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[13 January 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 614
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
13 January 1874
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1735
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
30 January [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1736
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
11 January [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1737
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
18 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/25)
Summary:
Thanks THF for information from Colonial Office on population statistics showing the inhabitants of some areas are far from becoming sterile.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1874?]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 152
Summary:
Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Hoyle Howorth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 28–9
Summary:
On the extinction of populations. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 183.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 Jan 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 120
Summary:
Extract from the Honolulu Gazette on the decreasing population of the Sandwich Islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Hoyle Howorth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Jan 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 279
Summary:
Sends paper ["Strictures on Darwinism, pt 2", J. Anthropol. Inst. 3 (1874): 208–28].
Refers to articles in the Art Journal on changes in English countenance since the Tudor period.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1874–5?]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C40
Summary:
Although he formed a high opinion of one of the correspondent’s papers, regrets that he could not presume to give an opinion of the merits of a candidate in chemistry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 Jan 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD sends thanks for the honour conferred by his election as an honorary member, though ill health may prevent his taking advantage of the privileges granted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
1 Jan 1874
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 36)
Summary:
Thanks for two pamphlets.
Sends Thomas Belt’s [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)], "the best Nat. Hist. book of travels ever published".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Has no objection to having his name appear as honorary member of [unidentified] club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eliza Phillips Thruston Houk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 272
Summary:
Sends paper she read before AAAS, but which was not accepted for Proceedings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 299
Summary:
Mentions family news;
sends a little magazine [missing] dealing with South American mission and showing "what teaching and the gospel of Christ is doing for those poor Natives".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
5 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 347
Summary:
Requests help for George Darwin’s investigation of marriages of first cousins. Seeks to determine proportion of first-cousin offspring among the insane, deaf and dumb, blind, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Waring
Date:
6 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Kent History and Library Centre (CKS-U1906/Z/1)
Summary:
CD has previously received information on colours of greyhounds. Now asks whether breeders rear all puppies, and, if not, do they selectively rear more males or females?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Airy, Hubert1
- Aksakov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich1
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences1
- Argelander, F. W. A.1
- Balfour, F. M.1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Crotch, George Robert1
- Darwin, C. R.25
- Darwin, Emma2
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Dealtry, William1
- Denison, C. L.1
- Downing, John1
- Guppy, Samuel1
- Hampden, John1
- Hay, Arthur1
- Hooker, J. D.4
- Houk, E. P. T.1
- Howorth, H. H.2
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Kovalevsky, V. O.2
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Marshall, William3
- Martin, J. H.1
- Maxwell, James Clerk1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von5
- Müller, Fritz1
- Pasteur, Louis1
- Reinwald, C.-F.1
- Roberti, I. L.1
- Semper, C. G.1
- Stainton, H. T.1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Swinhoe, Robert1
- Taylor, John Traill1
- Unidentified1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel5
- Waring, William (b)1
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