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DCP-LETT-9741

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 41
Summary:

Appleton will bring out the new edition of Descent in the U. S., so GHD’s work will now be in three editions.

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DCP-LETT-9739

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 349
Summary:

Farrer has taken the case to Northcote. JDH’s letter will show how overworked he is.

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DCP-LETT-9740

From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 109–10
Summary:

Observations on the insects captured by Utricularia.

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DCP-LETT-9742

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
3 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 80
Summary:

Invites TB to visit. Wants to make his acquaintance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9719F

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Dec 1874?]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 263
Summary:

Probably a discussiion of J. D. Hooker’s feelings after death of his wife, Frances Harriet, on 13 November 1874: the letter is badly damaged.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9219

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
[4 Dec] 1874 or [10 or 17] Dec 1875 or [12 Jan] 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.460)
Summary:

Invites WO to lunch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9743

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 45
Summary:

Has finished the "cousin paper" and will offer it to W. Farr for the Statistical Society.

Describes other work in progress.

Has CD heard of A. M. Mayer’s curious work on audition of insects [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 8 (1874): 89–103?]

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DCP-LETT-9743F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
Date:
[5 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Wants to see Huxley tomorrow, but knows he is going down to High Elms to see Colenso.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9746

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[6 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 42
Summary:

Returns historical sketch [of GHD’s "cousin paper"?] with comments. "For Heavens sake put a sentence in some conspicuous place that your results seem to indicate that consanguineous marriage, as far as insanity is concerned, cannot be injurious in any very high degree."

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DCP-LETT-9745

From:
William Gregory Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 181: 5
Summary:

On voluntary vomiting. Dogs re-swallow vomited food.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9744

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 106: B120
Summary:

Thanks for new edition of Descent.

His work on geographical distribution; drudgery and the often unsatisfactory nature of the result.

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DCP-LETT-9747

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[7 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.453)
Summary:

Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9749

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
8 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FK 1110–1112)
Summary:

Praises JF’s book [Cosmic philosophy (1874)].

Has long wished to understand H. Spencer but is not convinced by him and some others. CD cannot trust deduction from a starting principle, as his mind is so fixed by the inductive method.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9750

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 232–3
Summary:

Delighted with Farrer’s assistance. A. Helps has also spoken to Sir S. Northcote.

JDH is getting on well but has periods of great depression.

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DCP-LETT-9748

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 234–5
Summary:

K. G. Semper’s article ["On the relationship of the Vertebrata and Annelida", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 15 (1875): 94–5] is ill-natured. Misinterprets facts already discovered by F. M. Balfour.

Has been working on Amphioxus. Puts his theory of vertebrate skulls on firm footing at last.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9750F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Carl Noll
Date:
8 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (Historische Sammlungen EH 112)
Summary:

Thanks for the essay on a curious new cirripede. He will not accept the offer of microscopical preparations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9751

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[9 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.454)
Summary:

Invites GJR to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9724F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[9 Dec] 1874 or [14 Dec] 1875 or [10 Jan] 1877
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 76, 1994)
Summary:

Invites correspondent to luncheon on Friday or Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9752

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 103
Summary:

Sends French translation of Journal of researches and will send the £20 due to CD when 750 copies have been sold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9753

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 187
Summary:

Cannot help with Pinguicula or Utricularia. Mrs Mary Treat is studying Utricularia.

Forwards his short piece on duration of varieties [New York Tribune 8 Dec 1874; Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 9 (1875): 109–14].

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