From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 10 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 77
Summary:
Observations on Coronilla.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Berry Benson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 149
Summary:
Supplies evidence to the contrary of CD’s assertion in Expression that dogs do not eat carrion.
Offers to send mud-wasps.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
10 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 291
Summary:
Is glad to have Descent cheaper and sold more largely, but would be sorry to see it printed like the Origin. "The closeness of the lines is the great fault." Fears book might be very thick. "I hear scores of people complaining of the heavy and thick books which you publish."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/22)
Summary:
Delighted to hear about Coronilla. Urges publication ["Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers– Coronilla", Nature 10 (1874): 169–70].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Enrico Morselli
Date:
10 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Piero Leonardi (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks EM for essay ["Sopra un rara anomalia dell’osso malare", Annu. Soc. Nat. Modena 7 (1873): 1–50]. CD agrees as far as he understands. Cannot see how new modifications could arise by atavism. "The more I study nature, the more I feel convinced that species generally change by extremely slight modifications."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
10 April 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.90, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH informs Brian Hodgson that Lord Carnarvon [the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert] has offered him a knighthood; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, in recognition of his service to the Colonies. JDH has not sought a knighthood & previously rejected one when offered. This particular honour, as it relates to his colonial work in the name of his Father [William Jackson Hooker] & the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, would be highly prized by JDH. He accepted K.C.M.G. once before only to be later refused the honour by Government, it is now a different Government so Hooker will take no malicious pleasure in refusing the honour this time. Nevertheless JDH will refuse the K.C.M.G. as it is a lesser honour than has been awarded to past Presidents of the Royal Society who were made members of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
12 Apr 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Finding that the leaves of Drosera digest all the phosphate of lime out of bones and then remain clasped over the bones for a long time, CD wants to determine whether it is the phosphate of lime or the animal matter in the bones that keeps them clasped. He asks EF to send 2 or 3 grams of pure phosphate of lime for his testing. [See 9411.] Will experiment in the summer using EF’s suggestion that leaves might serve to test weak sewage. Results of Sanderson’s experiments with acids of great use.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
12 Apr 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 348–9)
Summary:
Discusses 2d edition of Descent. CD is inclined to a cheap edition and asks JM to consider a one-volume edition in double-column format.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Rudd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 87: 168–9
Summary:
On supernumerary mammae in a male patient.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri
Summary:
Thanks an unknown correspondent for the 4th edition of his 'remarkable work'.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Waring
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 44–5
Summary:
On proportion of sexes in litters of greyhounds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Waring
Date:
13 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Kent History and Library Centre (CKS-U1906/Z/1)
Summary:
WW’s information accords with other accounts lately received. CD had formed an erroneous opinion on the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
13 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.440)
Summary:
Asks correspondent to obtain odd numbers of Flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 198–9
Summary:
Sends his screed about the brain [for Descent], which he thinks pounds the enemy into a jelly.
Is in good health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 49–50
Summary:
Sends some phosphates of lime free of animal matter [see Insectivorous plants, p. 109].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 7)
Summary:
Thanks for the seeds and plants that he requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
16 Apr and 9 Aug 1874
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 702)
Summary:
Has written to J. Murray to have account of the Zoological Station inserted in the Murray guidebook.
The circular about the Station has been printed; some have already signed.
Received R. Kossman’s paper on Anelasma ["Untersuchungen über die durch Parasitismus hervorgerufenen Umbildungen in der Familie der Pedunculata", Verh. Phys.-med. Ges. Würz. N. F. 5 (1874): 129–57]. The case is the most interesting ever recorded of gradation, i.e., from an animal with a stomach to one with roots like a plant.
Delighted he will examine the complemental males of Scalpellum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:
16 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C50–1
Summary:
CD’s son Francis is to be married, so CD is seeking advice as to how much he should arrange as a marriage-settlement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 333
Summary:
His note on the brain should be in small type.
Glad CD agrees with him on hand, foot, and skull question.
Has heard from Dohrn.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
17 Apr 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Thanks for the pure phosphate of lime.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project