From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 23 July 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 9
Summary:
Asks for a specimen of Pinguicula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[Nov 1874 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:
Invites FG to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
23 May [1874-5]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (tipped into a copy of Orchids )
Summary:
"With kind regards, & many thanks for Prof. Steenstrup’s Photograph, which is most highly valued by C. Darwin"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 June [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1874?]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 152
Summary:
Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
16 Feb [1874?]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
On the "doubtful & obscure" subject of marriage of cousins, CD believes, that judging from the analogy of animals, no direct evil would follow from their marriage. He would, however, expect the offspring of unrelated parents to be somewhat superior in size and vigour. The injury from the increase of any bad tendency common to the family seems to CD more to be feared than mere consanguinity; "the good effects of crossing distinct families I look at as great & undoubted".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Sissmore Tomes
Date:
16 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Andrusier Autographs (dealer) (Spring 2013)
Summary:
Thanks for facts on inheritance
Thinks CST’s paper (C. S. Tomes 1874) about the enamel on the teeth of the armadillo is most remarkable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Wilhelm Spengel
Date:
27 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB) (Mscr. Dresd. s 762)
Summary:
Thanks for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 Feb 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 8
Summary:
Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Hoyle Howorth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 28–9
Summary:
On the extinction of populations. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 183.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 Jan 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 120
Summary:
Extract from the Honolulu Gazette on the decreasing population of the Sandwich Islands.
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 Sissmore Tomes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 16 Feb 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 129
Summary:
Inherited dental abnormalities in man. [Enclosed are proofs of pp. 113–16 from J. Tomes, A system of dental surgery, 2d ed. (1873).]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 31
Summary:
LD has misplaced some figures on which he was to work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William de Wiveleslie Abney
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 148
Summary:
Answers questions about chemistry (see 9202).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 137; Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154)
Summary:
Sends references on Utricularia and Pinguicula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
William de Wiveleslie Abney
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 147
Summary:
Asks for proportion of water and of nitrogen in various ammonium salts.
[WWA’s replies are with the letter.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Aitken
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 25 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 150–2
Summary:
Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William James Lloyd Wharton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Sept 1874 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A67–70
Summary:
Describes the coral formations of the island of Rodriguez [Indian Ocean].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
