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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Stratford George Canning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 41
Summary:
Reports on a female black-winged pea-fowl at his home in Ireland.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 249: 120
Summary:
Thanks for HHHvZ’s translation of Expression. CD will have HHHvZ’s notes translated by one of his sons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Farrer, K. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
20 February [1874–7]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1538
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Nettleship Staley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 89: 191–4
Summary:
General observations on the native Hawaiian population.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 91–2, 94–7, 102–13, 117–19; DAR 161: 301
Summary:
Answers to queries are being sent.
Enclosure 1: statistics on puppies bred by Rayner in 1873.
Enclosure 2 from W. N. Massey: number of males or females raised depends entirely on preference of greyhound breeders.
Enclosure 3 from E. L. Williams: breeders prefer to destroy bitch pups.
Enclosure 4: Thomas Morse answers CD’s three queries, transmitted by GC: (1) in deerhounds, females predominate, three to one; (2) in all but cattle, females are less worth preserving; (3) TM rears all the young.
Enclosure 5: John Wright responds to CD’s queries about proportion of sexes in births of horses, cattle, and dogs.
Enclosure 6: G. W. Hickman cannot give reliable answers to CD’s queries on proportion of sexes born [in greyhounds?].
Contributor:
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Text Online
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
From:
Praskov’ja Fëdorovna Perfil’eva (Pauline Perfilieff)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 174: 36
Summary:
Asks for CD’s photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Stratford George Canning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 42
Summary:
More details on pea-fowl.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 8a (EH 88205933)
Summary:
CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 301
Summary:
The Bishop of Falkland says the Fuegian natives’ health does not suffer through increased civilisation. Relates the Bishop’s observations on the state of Tierra del Fuego and its populace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Withers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 181: 133
Summary:
Thanks CD for presenting books to a gardeners’ society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Nettleship Staley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 195–6
Summary:
Introduction of tropical fruits in Hawaiian Islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 89: 26–7
Summary:
Comments on several points in Descent,
doubts facts about Monacanthus brushes
and the two Cyprinidae males attending the female when spawning.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 29
Summary:
Asks CD to allow his name to be put on a committee to establish a Scientific Societies Club for the fellows of the six societies that will have rooms in Burlington House.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eugène Desmarest
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 172
Summary:
CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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