From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 165
Summary:
Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Cecil
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 128
Summary:
Has just read Journal of researches and has been charmed out of his anti-Darwinian prejudice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Berry Benson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 149
Summary:
Supplies evidence to the contrary of CD’s assertion in Expression that dogs do not eat carrion.
Offers to send mud-wasps.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Rudd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 87: 168–9
Summary:
On supernumerary mammae in a male patient.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Waring
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 44–5
Summary:
On proportion of sexes in litters of greyhounds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 198–9
Summary:
Sends his screed about the brain [for Descent], which he thinks pounds the enemy into a jelly.
Is in good health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 49–50
Summary:
Sends some phosphates of lime free of animal matter [see Insectivorous plants, p. 109].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 333
Summary:
His note on the brain should be in small type.
Glad CD agrees with him on hand, foot, and skull question.
Has heard from Dohrn.
Contributor:
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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.).]
Contributor:
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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".
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thereza Mary Llewelyn; Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 263
Summary:
Reply to CD’s letter in Nature ["Flowers of the primrose", Collected papers 2: 183–4]. She has a canary that eats primroses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project