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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Jan 1874]
Source of text:
Nature , 19 February 1874, p. 309
Summary:

Agrees with Bates that neuter termites are not modified imagos (sterile females), but modified larvae (of both sexes).

Systematic relations of stingless honey-bees (Melipona and Trigona) are not yet well established.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eliza Phillips Thruston Houk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 272
Summary:

Sends paper she read before AAAS, but which was not accepted for Proceedings.

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:
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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 299
Summary:

Mentions family news;

sends a little magazine [missing] dealing with South American mission and showing "what teaching and the gospel of Christ is doing for those poor Natives".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 28
Summary:

W. J. Beal’s paper ["Phyllotaxis of cones", Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 449–53] shows incompleteness of HA’s theory, but does not invalidate his basic principles on origin of leaf arrangement or the broad applicability of the theory.

Contributor:
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From:
William Waring
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 76–8
Summary:

Breeders normally destroy weak and puny puppies in large litters, but would keep females if only one or two.

Contributor:
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From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 337
Summary:

Wants CD to propose him for the Royal Society.

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:
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From:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 25)
Summary:

Encloses R. McLachlan’s certificate of nomination for Royal Society. Hopes CD will sign it, as McLachlan is the most philosophic member of the Entomological Society in years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Dealtry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 30–7
Summary:

On the increases in crossbred English and Tahitian population of Pitcairn islanders. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 190.] Includes copy of letter from George Hunn Nobbs about the population of Norfolk Island.

Contributor:
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From:
Caroline Lucy Denison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 158
Summary:

Sends CD the number of Pitcairn islanders transferred to Norfolk Island cited in her deceased husband’s book [Sir William Thomas Denison, Varieties of a vice-regal life (1870)] but is unable to furnish additional information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 101
Summary:

French translation of Expression sent for CD’s approval.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 92
Summary:

A new German edition of Descent is planned. Would like to work on proofs before leaving for lectures at Edinburgh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Hales Martin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 53
Summary:

JHM, who has not read CD’s works, must conduct a discussion on Darwinism and theology at a local literary society. He asks CD to define briefly his position on the origin of man and on descent.

Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 187–8
Summary:

An awful row at the Linnean Society. William Carruthers and Co. packed a meeting to throw out a decision of the Council. He was beaten by one vote (more than two-thirds majority needed).

Spent two hours with Lyell talking about Thomas Belt’s book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: "the tropical old Glaciers beat the seance I do think".

Lyell agrees that the glacial epoch is the great geological crux of the day. Lowering of the ocean level must also be investigated.

Curious about A. C. Ramsay’s paper coming at Royal Society on 29th ["On the comparative value of certain geological ages", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 22 (1874): 145–8].

Huxley’s new book [? Critiques and addresses (1873)].

Contributor:
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From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 169: 95
Summary:

Russian Expression has sold nearly 2000 copies.

Plans to come to England to study collections of vertebrate fossils from the Chalk. This will complement his work in the south of France.

Contributor:
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From:
Isaac Louis Roberti
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 183, 183/1
Summary:

Has grown haricots in England following CD’s suggestion in the Origin that this had never been done.

Wishes to see CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 135
Summary:

Discusses coral reefs

and encloses a copy of his "Reisebericht" [Z. Wiss. Zool. 13 (1863): 538–70], as requested by CD.

Contributor:
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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
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 154: 128
Summary:

Reports to CD on a spiritualist séance attended by himself (incognito) and G. H. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project