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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