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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[25 April 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 111
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Leaf, Walter
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
5 April 1874
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1603
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
8 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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).]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Charles Hamilton Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore
Date:
Apr 1874
Source of text:
Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius n.s. 8 (1875): 106–9
Summary:
Petition to protect gigantic tortoises on the Mascarene.
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
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 5–6)
Summary:
Wants some plants for observation and for experimentation on their powers of movement.
Asks WTT-D to make observations on plants with sensitive stamens or pistil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Apr 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 350–1)
Summary:
Has finished corrections for 2d edition of Descent – "as hard work as I have ever had in my life". Estimates it is 40 pages longer than 1st edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[before 5 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.458)
Summary:
Subscribes to a reprint of Pieter Boddaert’s Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle [check ‘éez’!?] [1874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Many thanks for Boddaert [see 9389].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
6 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Nature , 16 April 1874, p. 460
Summary:
Comments on J. T. Moggridge’s article on the fertilisation of Fumaria capreolata [Nature 9 (1874): 423].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
