From:
William Sharpey
To:
James Alderson
Date:
17 February 1874
Source of text:
MM/19/64, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Edward Shuttleworth
Date:
17 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5134)
Summary:
At the suggestion of Crichton-Browne CD writes on behalf of his son George, who is making a study of marriages between first cousins and of their offspring to determine the proportion of the latter who may be among the insane, deaf and dumb, idiotic, blind etc. Is GES willing to ask his patients [at the Royal Albert Asylum] for the information relevant to this study?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 98–9
Summary:
Gives the answers of two of the best dog breeders to CD’s queries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lillie Devereux Blake
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Blake 1888 , pp. 47–8
Summary:
Does not believe in the possibilty of dog suicide.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Stratford George Canning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 41
Summary:
Reports on a female black-winged pea-fowl at his home in Ireland.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 249: 120
Summary:
Thanks for HHHvZ’s translation of Expression. CD will have HHHvZ’s notes translated by one of his sons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for answering his query on greyhound puppies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
19 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 1)
Summary:
Thanks for copies of HdV’s two articles on climbing plants (Vries 1873a and 1873b).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Date:
[before 20 Feb 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.437)
Summary:
Discusses meaning of term "sexual selection".
Comments on variability in males.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah Parsons Cooke
Date:
20 Feb 1874
Source of text:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Letterbook 07-36)
Summary:
Thanks for his election as Foreign Honorary Member.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
20 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 6)
Summary:
Thanks for LR’s essay on living and fossil turtles [Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchâtel 9 (1873): 439–41].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
20 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.88, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Thomas Nettleship Staley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 89: 191–4
Summary:
General observations on the native Hawaiian population.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 91–2, 94–7, 102–13, 117–19; DAR 161: 301
Summary:
Answers to queries are being sent.
Enclosure 1: statistics on puppies bred by Rayner in 1873.
Enclosure 2 from W. N. Massey: number of males or females raised depends entirely on preference of greyhound breeders.
Enclosure 3 from E. L. Williams: breeders prefer to destroy bitch pups.
Enclosure 4: Thomas Morse answers CD’s three queries, transmitted by GC: (1) in deerhounds, females predominate, three to one; (2) in all but cattle, females are less worth preserving; (3) TM rears all the young.
Enclosure 5: John Wright responds to CD’s queries about proportion of sexes in births of horses, cattle, and dogs.
Enclosure 6: G. W. Hickman cannot give reliable answers to CD’s queries on proportion of sexes born [in greyhounds?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Praskov’ja Fëdorovna Perfil’eva (Pauline Perfilieff)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 174: 36
Summary:
Asks for CD’s photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Stratford George Canning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 42
Summary:
More details on pea-fowl.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 8a (EH 88205933)
Summary:
CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
23 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.216-219, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 301
Summary:
The Bishop of Falkland says the Fuegian natives’ health does not suffer through increased civilisation. Relates the Bishop’s observations on the state of Tierra del Fuego and its populace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Withers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 181: 133
Summary:
Thanks CD for presenting books to a gardeners’ society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project