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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 34
Summary:

Sends queries [on proofs of Descent, 2d ed.]. Will be finished, except for the index, in two days.

Is now less satisfied than formerly with his statistics on cousin marriage.

[Enclosure is a copy by GHD of J. S. Mill’s statement about Origin (Logic 2: 18 n.).]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
18 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Nature , 23 April 1874, p. 482
Summary:

CD has observed hundreds of primrose flowers cut off their stalks, and conjectures that this was done by birds to obtain the nectar. Asks readers of Nature in England and abroad whether primroses are subject to such destruction in their localities.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
19 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 19
Summary:

Is sorry to hear the news about the cousin question – a real misfortune.

Congratulates GHD on being nearly finished with work on Descent.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Willett
Date:
19 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 359
Summary:

F. M. Balfour is in Naples. Comments on rate at which sea eats back the land, as given in early editions of Origin.

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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 35
Summary:

Sends Descent material. Is staggered by CD’s power of marshalling facts and his conciseness and clearness of thought. The only fault he finds is some slight want of conciseness of diction.

He feels CD’s power more now "that I quail before the thought of arranging the few paltry facts I’ve got about those d––d cousins".

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From:
Eliza Meteyard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 163
Summary:

The memorial failed last autumn. She asks for CD’s signature again so that it may be presented now that there is a new Government.

Her [Wedgwood] Handbook is now in press.

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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Nature , 11 June 1874, pp. 102–3
Summary:

FM gives his own observations of leaf-cutting ants, which support those of Thomas Belt in his book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1873)]. [See 9223.] These ants feed only upon the fungus that grows upon the leaves that they carry to their nests.

He has caught a moth of the Glaucopidæ that when touched emitted a cloud of snow-white wool.

Observations on the stingless bees of Brazil.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[21 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 20
Summary:

GHD’s corrections seem very good. Murray hopes there will be few corrections in Descent. CD assured him no changes have been made merely for improving style.

Wants very much to hear about "the terrible cousin affair".

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From:
Henry Cecil
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 129
Summary:

Affirms his belief in an impassable spiritual gulf between man and the lower creatures.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
22 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Requests permission to call briefly to discuss Drosera.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
23 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 69)
Summary:

Approves of proof [of subscription appeal for Dohrn’s Naples station]. Suggests names.

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From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Lyell correspondence Mss.B.L981)
Summary:

Will subscribe £25 towards F. A. Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
25 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 71)
Summary:

Has received circulars, and contributions from Lyell and George Busk [for Naples biological station].

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From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.2: 65–70
Summary:

Purpose of experiments was to determine digestive activity of liquids containing pepsin. Gives required amounts of hydrochloric, propionic, butyric and valerianic acids. Describes experiment and gives results. Also experimented on digestive activity of butyric acid at greater temperatures than the termperature of the body.

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From:
Cecil James Monro
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 230
Summary:

Sends cherry blossoms damaged by birds in response to CD’s letter in Nature ["Flowers of the primrose", Collected papers 2: 183–4].

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From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 128
Summary:

Asks CD’s support for his application for the Chair of Geology at Oxford.

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From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 210
Summary:

Bullfinches’ instinctive capacity for removing nectaries from cowslips.

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From:
Albert Stratford George Canning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 43
Summary:

Further particulars on pea-fowl.

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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 255
Summary:

Thanks for recent edition of CD’s Journal of researches.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
28 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Thanks for letter relating to domesticated bullfinches’ instinctively cutting off cowslips [see 9430]. Suggests observing whether the birds swallow any part of flower or particular parts.

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