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DCP-LETT-9298

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 98–9
Summary:

Gives the answers of two of the best dog breeders to CD’s queries.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9299

From:
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 7
Summary:

Criticises sexual selection theory. Supports natural selection.

Gives CD references on proportion of sexes in spiders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9299A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Edward Shuttleworth
Date:
17 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5134)
Summary:

At the suggestion of Crichton-Browne CD writes on behalf of his son George, who is making a study of marriages between first cousins and of their offspring to determine the proportion of the latter who may be among the insane, deaf and dumb, idiotic, blind etc. Is GES willing to ask his patients [at the Royal Albert Asylum] for the information relevant to this study?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9300

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

Thanks for answering his query on greyhound puppies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9300F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lillie Devereux Blake
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Blake 1888 , pp. 47–8
Summary:

Does not believe in the possibilty of dog suicide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9302

From:
Albert Stratford George Canning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 41
Summary:

Reports on a female black-winged pea-fowl at his home in Ireland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9303F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
19 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 1)
Summary:

Thanks for copies of HdV’s two articles on climbing plants (Vries 1873a and 1873b).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Date:
[before 20 Feb 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.437)
Summary:

Discusses meaning of term "sexual selection".

Comments on variability in males.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9305

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah Parsons Cooke
Date:
20 Feb 1874
Source of text:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Letterbook 07-36)
Summary:

Thanks for his election as Foreign Honorary Member.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
20 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 6)
Summary:

Thanks for LR’s essay on living and fossil turtles [Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchâtel 9 (1873): 439–41].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9307

From:
Thomas Nettleship Staley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 89: 191–4
Summary:

General observations on the native Hawaiian population.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9309

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 91–2, 94–7, 102–13, 117–19; DAR 161: 301
Summary:

Answers to queries are being sent.

Enclosure 1: statistics on puppies bred by Rayner in 1873.

Enclosure 2 from W. N. Massey: number of males or females raised depends entirely on preference of greyhound breeders.

Enclosure 3 from E. L. Williams: breeders prefer to destroy bitch pups.

Enclosure 4: Thomas Morse answers CD’s three queries, transmitted by GC: (1) in deerhounds, females predominate, three to one; (2) in all but cattle, females are less worth preserving; (3) TM rears all the young.

Enclosure 5: John Wright responds to CD’s queries about proportion of sexes in births of horses, cattle, and dogs.

Enclosure 6: G. W. Hickman cannot give reliable answers to CD’s queries on proportion of sexes born [in greyhounds?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 8a (EH 88205933)
Summary:

CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9311

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 301
Summary:

The Bishop of Falkland says the Fuegian natives’ health does not suffer through increased civilisation. Relates the Bishop’s observations on the state of Tierra del Fuego and its populace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9312

From:
William Withers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 181: 133
Summary:

Thanks CD for presenting books to a gardeners’ society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9313

From:
Albert Stratford George Canning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 42
Summary:

More details on pea-fowl.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9313F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Temple Goodale
Date:
26 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Stephen R. Marzilli (private collection)
Summary:

Has not the strength to discuss WTG’s letter, and points out that every organism develops from a single cell.

Does not wish to see the Book WTG offered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9314

From:
Thomas Nettleship Staley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 195–6
Summary:

Introduction of tropical fruits in Hawaiian Islands.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9315

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
25 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (38)
Summary:

Has given in Descent 2: 12, an account from AG of the brushes on the sides of Monacanthus; has now learned of brush-like scales on the males of Mallotus. Asks whether the two genera are related.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9316

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 89: 26–7
Summary:

Comments on several points in Descent,

doubts facts about Monacanthus brushes

and the two Cyprinidae males attending the female when spawning.

Contributor:
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