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From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: A92
Summary:

Statement of U. S. sales of Origin, Expression, and Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Karl Siegwart Sievert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 161
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Examiner.

Fear of communism is making CD’s theory popular among possessing classes.

Describes reception of Lyell’s Antiquity of man among German country people.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 85–90
Summary:

Responds to CD’s queries about breeders’ practices in destroying and saving males or females in litters of deerhounds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1874
Source of text:
McLennan 1896, pp. 50–5
Summary:

Discusses the evolution of marriage systems; considers the scheme of development CD proposes: 1. Polygyny and monogamy; 2. Polyandry; 3. Promiscuity; 4. Polygyny and monogamy in recurrence. Explains what he understands by promiscuity. JFM believes that polygyny, monogamy, and polyandry must have occurred in "every district from the first, and grown up together into systems sanctioned by usage first and then law". Considers polygyny necessarily the privilege of the few and, as a system, believes it had less to do than any other with the history of marriage. He sees polyandry as an advance from promiscuity and the stage at which contractual obligations between men and their wives begin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 102
Summary:

Sends £40 for copyright to Édmond Barbier’s revision of Moulinié’s Descent translation.

Journal of researches translation is in press.

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

Do breeders rear more male than female greyhound puppies?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
6 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Orders five works on the Sandwich Islands from the Royal Geographical Society Library for his investigation of infanticide and population trends there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 33
Summary:

Finds statistical evidence that cousin marriages are at least three times as frequent in "our rank" as in the lower.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Cleves Symmes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 339
Summary:

Believes that he has an important physical theory: all atoms revolve.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 91
Summary:

Books CD requested have been packed and sent.

He will present CD with the classified catalogue [of Royal Geographical Society].

He has not learned whereabouts of Thomas Staley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 438
Summary:

Asks CD’s help in finding original woodcuts for "Voyage of a naturalist" [Journal of researches] for Reinwald.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 300
Summary:

Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb [1874?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B93
Summary:

George brought a plant from Cambridge, which he is keeping for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 117
Summary:

Thanks CD for £10 to help with his law case.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 300
Summary:

The Bishop of Falkland [Waite Hockin Stirling] is coming to visit BJS, who will question him for CD.

Discusses politics; regrets they have been badly beaten by the Tory candidate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 136
Summary:

Comments on G. H. Lewes’s book [The life and works of Goethe (1855)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.40, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Asa Gray for sending Elliottia & asks if anyone has fruit of it. He is unsure where to place it in relation to other genera. He is sure Cyrilla is near Ilex & Olacineae[?]. JDH has received the Aquilegia[?] roots & copy of BOTANICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. Mentions the visit of Mr & Mrs Sargent &, quoting [Charles] Dickens, describes the lady as "plump and conformable". Asks where Gray saw Rodgersia podophylla advertised. Mentions the reputations of [John Louis Rodolphe] Aggassiz & Humboldt. Calls the idea of trying to disprove [Charles] Darwin's theory before Congress "humiliating". Mentions some excellent apples. [The letter is unsigned and possibly imcomplete.]

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 338
Summary:

Matters of etiquette concerning his certificate for the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Harris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 106
Summary:

Sends about 15 sheets on instinct from his book [A philosophical treatise on the nature and constitution of man (1876)] for CD’s comments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Temple Goodale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 72
Summary:

Asks CD if he can reconcile a passage in Mark Hopkins’ Outline study of man [1873] with the theory of development.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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