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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 December 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 156
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 41
Summary:

Appleton will bring out the new edition of Descent in the U. S., so GHD’s work will now be in three editions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
2 December 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 157-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 349
Summary:

Farrer has taken the case to Northcote. JDH’s letter will show how overworked he is.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 109–10
Summary:

Observations on the insects captured by Utricularia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
3 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 80
Summary:

Invites TB to visit. Wants to make his acquaintance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Dec 1874?]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 263
Summary:

Probably a discussiion of J. D. Hooker’s feelings after death of his wife, Frances Harriet, on 13 November 1874: the letter is badly damaged.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
[4 Dec] 1874 or [10 or 17] Dec 1875 or [12 Jan] 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.460)
Summary:

Invites WO to lunch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 45
Summary:

Has finished the "cousin paper" and will offer it to W. Farr for the Statistical Society.

Describes other work in progress.

Has CD heard of A. M. Mayer’s curious work on audition of insects [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 8 (1874): 89–103?]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
Date:
[5 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Wants to see Huxley tomorrow, but knows he is going down to High Elms to see Colenso.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[6 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 42
Summary:

Returns historical sketch [of GHD’s "cousin paper"?] with comments. "For Heavens sake put a sentence in some conspicuous place that your results seem to indicate that consanguineous marriage, as far as insanity is concerned, cannot be injurious in any very high degree."

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From:
William Gregory Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 181: 5
Summary:

On voluntary vomiting. Dogs re-swallow vomited food.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 106: B120
Summary:

Thanks for new edition of Descent.

His work on geographical distribution; drudgery and the often unsatisfactory nature of the result.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 December 1874
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B120
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 256
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 284]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
6 December 1874
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/97
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
7 December 1874
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1641
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[7 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.453)
Summary:

Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
8 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FK 1110–1112)
Summary:

Praises JF’s book [Cosmic philosophy (1874)].

Has long wished to understand H. Spencer but is not convinced by him and some others. CD cannot trust deduction from a starting principle, as his mind is so fixed by the inductive method.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 232–3
Summary:

Delighted with Farrer’s assistance. A. Helps has also spoken to Sir S. Northcote.

JDH is getting on well but has periods of great depression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 234–5
Summary:

K. G. Semper’s article ["On the relationship of the Vertebrata and Annelida", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 15 (1875): 94–5] is ill-natured. Misinterprets facts already discovered by F. M. Balfour.

Has been working on Amphioxus. Puts his theory of vertebrate skulls on firm footing at last.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project