From:
Francis Eugene Nipher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 172: 69
Summary:
Cites examples of the inheritance of maternal impressions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Gustav Kemp
Date:
11 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
West Berkshire Museum, Newbury (NEBYM:1986.63.1.1)
Summary:
Responds to the correspondent's comments on natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 233
Summary:
Wishes to know where, in his works, CD refers to some particular behaviour in dogs.
Mentions the sensitivity of cirripedes to passing shadows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 442
Summary:
New edition of Descent just off the press. Murray feels price must be 9s instead of 12s, if it is to sell. This will reduce profit to almost nil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 155
Summary:
Thanks for the present of the book [Thomas Belt, The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Nov 1874
Source of text:
Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Collection (MiscMS 253)
Summary:
Is obliged for addressee’s courteous note and is indifferent to how his name is used.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 91: 84
Summary:
Calls CD’s attention to a book that deals with subjects related to both Descent and Expression: Ferdinand Jahn, Die abnormen Zustände des menschlichen Lebens als Nachbildungen und Wiederholungen normaler Zustände des Thierlebens [1842].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
15 November [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.24
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down School Board
Date:
16 Nov 1874
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/10/1)
Summary:
Must resign because of his health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 443
Summary:
Booksellers approve of [9s] price for 2d edition of Descent. 1350 copies were sold at annual sale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
17 November 1874
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Nov 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 342
Summary:
Extremely glad to have JDH come to Down. It is wise of JDH to exert himself and face the inevitable as well as he can. [Death of JDH’s wife, 13 Nov.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 98
Summary:
An omission in a bibliographical note in Descent [2d English ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
18 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 39
Summary:
Sends Murray’s report of November sales of CD’s books. "I am well content."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen)
Date:
18 Nov 1874
Source of text:
Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 92. Register 1. Folder 112. P. 3, 3 r)
Summary:
Thanks FTK for telling him of Jahn’s work [see 9719], of which CD had not heard. It would have been of greatest use in writing Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 19] Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 93
Summary:
Accepts CD’s suggestion of new edition of Descent, and asks that Murray supply the stereotype plates and woodcuts for $50 [dollars or pounds!?], as soon as possible; supply of copies of Descent is exhausted.
Will publish CD’s proposed book [Insectivorous plants (1875)] on same terms as other works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ludwig Noiré
Date:
19 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
Stadtbibliothek Mainz (4 MS 170), Professor John C. Gray (private collection)
Summary:
CD thanks LN for his book [Die Welt als Entwicklung des Geistes], which he hopes to read soon, but his poor German hampers him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
20 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 125–126)
Summary:
Thanks JVC for a correction to 2d English edition of Descent, which is now finished. 1350 copies were sold at Murray’s sale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
20 Nov 1874
Source of text:
Lieutenant-Colonel James Innes (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 13 March 2002
Summary:
Asks for specimen of Aldrovanda for book on insect-eating plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Mellard Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 28
Summary:
Sends his paper ["Tidal action as a geological cause", Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. 2 (1874): 50–72].
Has not yet studied CD’s list of South American molluscs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project