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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Superintendent of a lunatic asylum
Date:
20 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)
Summary:

Would like recipient to ask inmates whether they are offspring of cousin marriages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Staatsbibilothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 110–111)
Summary:

Is glad to hear of new German edition of Descent, but owing to his extensive revisions, corrected sheets will not be ready for about three months.

Is working on a new edition of Coral reefs, which he thinks would sell in Germany.

Would like to hear "out of curiosity & vanity" how many copies of his books have been sold in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
21 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (8 June 2005)
Summary:

Asks for information about the title and date of Semper’s essay disputing CD’s theory of coral reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Arthur Hay
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 January 1874
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 272
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
24 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Has ordered James Clerk Maxwell’s book [On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings (1859)] as a present for Sofya Kovalevsky.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 January 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 137-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 169: 96
Summary:

On obtaining Clerk Maxwell’s memoir on Saturn for his wife, Sofya.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 230: 37
Summary:

CD elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [See 9305.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Henry Rayner
Date:
28 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)
Summary:

Gives his and CD’s thanks for information on consanguinity among parents of asylum inmates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Aksakov
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
29 January 1874
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 275
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Downing
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 79–84
Summary:

On proportion of sexes in births of cattle; variations in families. Encloses a letter from J. G. Grove on proportions of sexes in animals.

The limitation of inbreeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Branwhite Clarke
Date:
29 January 1874
Source of text:
ML MSS.3608 Clarke papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.For a published version of this letter, see Moyal (2003), pp. 1006-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 377)
Summary:

Discusses THH’s account of the séance. CD convinced all are fraudulent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1874?]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 152
Summary:

Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
30 January [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1736
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 32
Summary:

Has finished the index [for Descent, 2d ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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