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DCP-LETT-8854

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.

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DCP-LETT-9220

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Ford
Date:
[before 4 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C41
Summary:

Regrets that a cut [for Descent] does not do justice to TWW’s original drawing and if it cannot be improved then CD will have to omit it. [Refers to fig. 60 in Descent (1874).]

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DCP-LETT-9385

From:
Thomas Gold Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 113
Summary:

Sends old Japanese picture suggesting evolution, found by Charles Longfellow.

Is pleased to hear CD attended a séance [18 Jan 1874]; asks for his views about communication among spirits.

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DCP-LETT-9385F

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 198: 127
Summary:

Is willing to sell the land CD wants for £300.

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DCP-LETT-9386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 9 (EH 88205934)
Summary:

Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.

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DCP-LETT-9391

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 94
Summary:

Hopes to visit CD during a stay in London.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9392

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 71
Summary:

Just back from Gold Coast.

Would like to become a member of the Royal Institution.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9394

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 214
Summary:

His gratitude for CD’s gift. An account of his difficulties with the Zoological Station and his health.

F. M. Balfour has told him that CD would like to see the question of complemental males in cirripedes studied again. AD would like to enter the field and to study the whole morphological development of cirripedes.

Describes the interest in embryological work in Russia and Germany.

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DCP-LETT-9395

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 [Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 321
Summary:

C. V. Riley’s case of Pronuba moth and the fertilisation of Yucca, is the most wonderful case of fertilisation ever published [Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 619–23].

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DCP-LETT-9396

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.

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DCP-LETT-9399

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:
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DCP-LETT-9401

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:
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DCP-LETT-9405

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.

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DCP-LETT-9407

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.

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DCP-LETT-9409

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.

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DCP-LETT-9411

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].

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DCP-LETT-9413

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.

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DCP-LETT-9415

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:
16 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C50–1
Summary:

CD’s son Francis is to be married, so CD is seeking advice as to how much he should arrange as a marriage-settlement.

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DCP-LETT-9417

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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DCP-LETT-9419

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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