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
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
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:
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
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
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
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:
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
11 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Nature , 19 February 1874, pp. 308–9
Summary:
Prefaces Fritz Müller’s observations on termites and stingless bees [see 9281].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 172: 1
Summary:
Birthday greetings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Nettleship Staley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 89: 188–90
Summary:
On the decline of population of the Hawaiian Islands, before advent of Europeans; infanticide, polyandry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Titus Munson Coan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 69: A11, DAR 90: 40–3
Summary:
On the declining population of the Hawaiian Islands [see Descent (1875), pp. 186–7, 187–8 n. 43].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project