From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
17 Apr 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Thanks for the pure phosphate of lime.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Rudd
Date:
18 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.441)
Summary:
Discusses LR’s communication concerning supernumerary mammae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Clinton Hart Merriam
Date:
29 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Christie’s, New York (dealers) (November 1997)
Summary:
Asks CHM to send his paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Date:
30 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/4) Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
Summary:
Agrees to sign FDeC’s certificate for admission to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
8 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 290
Summary:
Discusses illustrations for 2d edition of Descent.
"My nephew [Henry Parker] got into the Athenaeum with splendid success."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
10 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 291
Summary:
Is glad to have Descent cheaper and sold more largely, but would be sorry to see it printed like the Origin. "The closeness of the lines is the great fault." Fears book might be very thick. "I hear scores of people complaining of the heavy and thick books which you publish."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster
Date:
[7 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C52–3
Summary:
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Frankland, Edward4
- Foster, Michael3
- Lubbock, John3
- Cooke, R. F.2
- Darwin, G. H.2
- John Murray2
- Murray, John (b)2
- Nature2
- Tegetmeier, W. B.2
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.2
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Dohrn, Anton1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Ford, G. H.1
- François de Chaumont, F. S. B.1
- Gordon, A. C. H.1
- Hacon, W. M.1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Merriam, C. H.1
- Morselli, Enrico1
- Rudd, Leonard1
- Sclater, P. L.1
- Unidentified1
- Waring, William (b)1
- Willett, Henry1
- Williams & Norgate1