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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Superintendent of a lunatic asylum
Date:
20 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)
Summary:

Would like recipient to ask inmates whether they are offspring of cousin marriages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Staatsbibilothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 110–111)
Summary:

Is glad to hear of new German edition of Descent, but owing to his extensive revisions, corrected sheets will not be ready for about three months.

Is working on a new edition of Coral reefs, which he thinks would sell in Germany.

Would like to hear "out of curiosity & vanity" how many copies of his books have been sold in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
21 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (8 June 2005)
Summary:

Asks for information about the title and date of Semper’s essay disputing CD’s theory of coral reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
24 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Has ordered James Clerk Maxwell’s book [On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings (1859)] as a present for Sofya Kovalevsky.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Isaac Louis Roberti
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 183, 183/1
Summary:

Has grown haricots in England following CD’s suggestion in the Origin that this had never been done.

Wishes to see CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 135
Summary:

Discusses coral reefs

and encloses a copy of his "Reisebericht" [Z. Wiss. Zool. 13 (1863): 538–70], as requested by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 154: 128
Summary:

Reports to CD on a spiritualist séance attended by himself (incognito) and G. H. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 169: 96
Summary:

On obtaining Clerk Maxwell’s memoir on Saturn for his wife, Sofya.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 230: 37
Summary:

CD elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [See 9305.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Henry Rayner
Date:
28 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)
Summary:

Gives his and CD’s thanks for information on consanguinity among parents of asylum inmates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 377)
Summary:

Discusses THH’s account of the séance. CD convinced all are fraudulent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Downing
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 79–84
Summary:

On proportion of sexes in births of cattle; variations in families. Encloses a letter from J. G. Grove on proportions of sexes in animals.

The limitation of inbreeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 32
Summary:

Has finished the index [for Descent, 2d ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: A92
Summary:

Statement of U. S. sales of Origin, Expression, and Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Karl Siegwart Sievert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 161
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Examiner.

Fear of communism is making CD’s theory popular among possessing classes.

Describes reception of Lyell’s Antiquity of man among German country people.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 85–90
Summary:

Responds to CD’s queries about breeders’ practices in destroying and saving males or females in litters of deerhounds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1874
Source of text:
McLennan 1896, pp. 50–5
Summary:

Discusses the evolution of marriage systems; considers the scheme of development CD proposes: 1. Polygyny and monogamy; 2. Polyandry; 3. Promiscuity; 4. Polygyny and monogamy in recurrence. Explains what he understands by promiscuity. JFM believes that polygyny, monogamy, and polyandry must have occurred in "every district from the first, and grown up together into systems sanctioned by usage first and then law". Considers polygyny necessarily the privilege of the few and, as a system, believes it had less to do than any other with the history of marriage. He sees polyandry as an advance from promiscuity and the stage at which contractual obligations between men and their wives begin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 102
Summary:

Sends £40 for copyright to Édmond Barbier’s revision of Moulinié’s Descent translation.

Journal of researches translation is in press.

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

Do breeders rear more male than female greyhound puppies?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
6 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Orders five works on the Sandwich Islands from the Royal Geographical Society Library for his investigation of infanticide and population trends there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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