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DCP-LETT-9277

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 338
Summary:

Matters of etiquette concerning his certificate for the Royal Society.

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DCP-LETT-9280

From:
George Harris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 106
Summary:

Sends about 15 sheets on instinct from his book [A philosophical treatise on the nature and constitution of man (1876)] for CD’s comments.

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DCP-LETT-9282

From:
Walter Temple Goodale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 72
Summary:

Asks CD if he can reconcile a passage in Mark Hopkins’ Outline study of man [1873] with the theory of development.

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DCP-LETT-9283

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
11 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Nature , 19 February 1874, pp. 308–9
Summary:

Prefaces Fritz Müller’s observations on termites and stingless bees [see 9281].

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DCP-LETT-9284

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Harris
Date:
12 Feb 1874
Source of text:
University of California Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division (Ms. 10, Letters concerning George Harris’s A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man )
Summary:

Has read GH’s proofs and, although not entirely in agreement, has no criticisms worth sending.

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DCP-LETT-9285

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 172: 1
Summary:

Birthday greetings.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9286

From:
Thomas Nettleship Staley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 89: 188–90
Summary:

On the decline of population of the Hawaiian Islands, before advent of Europeans; infanticide, polyandry.

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DCP-LETT-9287

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

Asks AG to sign an enclosure [see 9291].

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DCP-LETT-9288

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
13 Feb 1874
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 37)
Summary:

Has sent FM’s letter on termites to Nature ["Habits of various insects", Nature 10 (1874): 102–3].

Would be interested in observations on the stingless bees of Brazil.

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DCP-LETT-9289

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
13 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 711)
Summary:

Thanks for birthday greetings.

Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. Would like to send third son [Francis Darwin] to learn art of observing marine animals.

Health indifferent.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9290

From:
Titus Munson Coan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 69: A11, DAR 90: 40–3
Summary:

On the declining population of the Hawaiian Islands [see Descent (1875), pp. 186–7, 187–8 n. 43].

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DCP-LETT-9291

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 97: C39
Summary:

Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.

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DCP-LETT-9293

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 303
Summary:

Feels CD’s and Fritz Müller’s judgments on his "Anwendung" essay [see 8313] are of highest value. Mentions some of FM’s comments.

Looks forward to second English edition of Descent.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9294

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Harris
Date:
16 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
University of California Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division (Ms. 10, Letters concerning George Harris’s A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man )
Summary:

Returns proofs; has no criticisms or remarks worth sending.

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DCP-LETT-9295

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
16 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 148: 148
Summary:

Asks HBT to sign certificate [for Royal Society] for Robert Swinhoe.

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DCP-LETT-9296

From:
Albert Stratford George Canning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 40
Summary:

Offers information on pea-fowl for new edition of Variation.

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DCP-LETT-9296A

From:
James Alexander Gammie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 157a: 98
Summary:

Sends his observations on the fertilisation of Hedychium gardnerianum by sphinx moths. Did not look for pollen on the wing tips.

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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.

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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:
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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?

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