From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas William Denby
Date:
1 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 97: C43
Summary:
Writes concerning the land he wishes to purchase from Sir John Lubbock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edmund Hartnack
Date:
1 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 97: C42
Summary:
Has been waiting several months for a microscope objective and would like it without delay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
[c. 2 Mar 1874]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (39)
Summary:
Encloses a circular [9384?] to explain the predicament he is in. Asks whether AG can get anyone at the British Museum, other than Owen, to join J. E. Gray in signing.
Believes the account of the Mallotus in American Naturalist [5 (1871): 119] is trustworthy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
2 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
A certificate for admission [of Robert Swinhoe] to Royal Society with many signatures has been lost by the Post Office. Asks for another so he can get the signatures anew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 5
Summary:
Asks CD to read and comment, for publication, on his forthcoming essay in Index on the evolution of conscience and morals through action and reaction between man and the moral environment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 189–92
Summary:
The row at the Linnean Society and other troubles.
The Agricultural Society has sent Anton De Bary £100 to investigate the potato disease – an insult to M. J. Berkeley, who had worked on it for 30 years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
3 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
New York Academy of Medicine (MS 14)
Summary:
Thanks HBT for all the trouble he has taken for Robert Swinhoe and himself. Will try to get six signatures on a new certificate and deliver it to the Royal Society in time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter White
Date:
[3? Mar 1874]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 147)
Summary:
Sending the membership certificate for Robert Swinhoe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 159
Summary:
On digestive powers of Drosera and those of higher animals.
Comments on expression on two halves of human face.
Responds to TLB’s views of serpent- and fire-worship.
Poison of venomous snakes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eugène Desmarest
Date:
4 Mar 1874
Source of text:
Annales de la Société entomologique de France 5th ser. 4 (1874): xlvi
Summary:
Thanks for letter announcing election to honorary member of the Entomological Society of France. Has always felt entomology admirable for throwing light on general problems in biology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 313–16
Summary:
CD guessed Carruthers was stirred up by Owen. Disgraceful treatment of Bentham.
Work on Descent and Coral reefs stops his doing anything of real interest.
Asa Gray’s letter. CD has acknowledged the honour [honorary membership in the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.].
"What a demon on earth Owen is. I do hate him."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
4 March 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.89-90, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 193–4; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (Huxley: 13.256, 13.258)
Summary:
Has heard from Dohrn about his financial problems. Asks CD’s advice on what to do.
THH’s article in Contemporary Review ["Universities: actual and ideal" (1874), Collected essays, vol. 3 (1894)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
7 Mar 1874
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 712)
Summary:
CD is grieved to hear that AD is overworked and troubled about the Zoological Station. Glad he is now writing to seek assistance from English naturalists. Sends a subscription of £100 and £10 each from George and Francis Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 224
Summary:
Sends abstract of Martin Ziegler’s paper on sensitive movements in Drosera ["Sur un fait physiologique observé sur des feuilles de Drosera", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 74 (1872): 1227–9].
JTM’s experiments with formic acid and ants have failed to reveal the secret of the ants, but have taught him a great deal about germination.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
8 March 1874
Source of text:
MM/14/222, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
8 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 114–115)
Summary:
Looks forward to a visit from JVC and family in August.
Sheets of vol. 1 of Descent [2d ed.] are going to printer;
new edition of Coral reefs is half printed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
9 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Miscellaneous Correspondence Series)
Summary:
Asks GB to support the election of CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, to the Athenaeum Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (12 November 2020, lot 47256)
Summary:
Urges WB to give his vote "and exert any influence which you properly can" in favour of CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, a fellow of Oriel, at the next balloting at the Athenaeum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 338
Summary:
Writes on the possible origin of serpent-worship.
Is glad CD does not think his view regarding the two sides of the face is erroneous.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
