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DCP-LETT-8216F

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

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001467

From:
William Sharpey
To:
James Alderson
Date:
17 February 1874
Source of text:
MM/19/64, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

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?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9300F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lillie Devereux Blake
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Blake 1888 , pp. 47–8
Summary:

Does not believe in the possibilty of dog suicide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9302

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

DCP-LETT-9321

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

DCP-LETT-9300

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for answering his query on greyhound puppies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3425

From:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 February 1874
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 82-87
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9303F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
19 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 1)
Summary:

Thanks for copies of HdV’s two articles on climbing plants (Vries 1873a and 1873b).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Date:
[before 20 Feb 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.437)
Summary:

Discusses meaning of term "sexual selection".

Comments on variability in males.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9305

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah Parsons Cooke
Date:
20 Feb 1874
Source of text:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Letterbook 07-36)
Summary:

Thanks for his election as Foreign Honorary Member.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1444

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

DCP-LETT-9306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
20 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 6)
Summary:

Thanks for LR’s essay on living and fossil turtles [Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchâtel 9 (1873): 439–41].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1582

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
20 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.88, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9307

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
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FVM-74-02-20

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
20 February 1874
Source of text:
No. 634, unit 35, pp. 1436-7, VPRS 1187/P outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9309

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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