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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 120–2
Summary:

Comments on his examination of slides [of milk casein?] sent by CD.

Surprised by CD’s finding that a drop of one per cent hydrochloric acid stops digestion of albumen by Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 Feb 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 8
Summary:

Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
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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
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 10 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 77
Summary:

Observations on Coronilla.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Sissmore Tomes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 16 Feb 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 129
Summary:

Inherited dental abnormalities in man. [Enclosed are proofs of pp. 113–16 from J. Tomes, A system of dental surgery, 2d ed. (1873).]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 31
Summary:

LD has misplaced some figures on which he was to work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 137; Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154)
Summary:

Sends references on Utricularia and Pinguicula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Aitken
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 25 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 150–2
Summary:

Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.

Contributor:
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From:
William James Lloyd Wharton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Sept 1874 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A67–70
Summary:

Describes the coral formations of the island of Rodriguez [Indian Ocean].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
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:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 28
Summary:

W. J. Beal’s paper ["Phyllotaxis of cones", Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 449–53] shows incompleteness of HA’s theory, but does not invalidate his basic principles on origin of leaf arrangement or the broad applicability of the theory.

Contributor:
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From:
William Waring
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 76–8
Summary:

Breeders normally destroy weak and puny puppies in large litters, but would keep females if only one or two.

Contributor:
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From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 337
Summary:

Wants CD to propose him for the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 25)
Summary:

Encloses R. McLachlan’s certificate of nomination for Royal Society. Hopes CD will sign it, as McLachlan is the most philosophic member of the Entomological Society in years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Dealtry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 30–7
Summary:

On the increases in crossbred English and Tahitian population of Pitcairn islanders. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 190.] Includes copy of letter from George Hunn Nobbs about the population of Norfolk Island.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 101
Summary:

French translation of Expression sent for CD’s approval.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Lucy Denison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 158
Summary:

Sends CD the number of Pitcairn islanders transferred to Norfolk Island cited in her deceased husband’s book [Sir William Thomas Denison, Varieties of a vice-regal life (1870)] but is unable to furnish additional information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project