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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
13 January 1874
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1735
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
30 January [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1736
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
11 January [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1737
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[22 Feb 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2345
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
30 September [1874?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1293
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 120–2
Summary:
Comments on his examination of slides [of milk casein?] sent by CD.
Surprised by CD’s finding that a drop of one per cent hydrochloric acid stops digestion of albumen by Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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:
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
From:
Henry Hoyle Howorth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Jan 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 279
Summary:
Sends paper ["Strictures on Darwinism, pt 2", J. Anthropol. Inst. 3 (1874): 208–28].
Refers to articles in the Art Journal on changes in English countenance since the Tudor period.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project