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DCP-LETT-9627

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
7 Sept 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.449)
Summary:

Thanks her for specimen of Drosera. Asks for an epiphytic Utricularia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9650

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
21 Sept 1874 and 29 Jan 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Head movements and their expressive significance. [P.S. explains letter was returned to CD because of a mistake in the address.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9654

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.450)
Summary:

Discusses paper on volcanoes by J. W. Judd.

Comments on volcanoes of the S. American Cordillera.

Mentions paper by T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9668

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
8 Oct 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.451)
Summary:

Thanks JC-B for copy of Medical Reports of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9679

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
14 Oct 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.452)
Summary:

Thanks him for specimens.

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-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-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-9762

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.455)
Summary:

Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].

Discusses breeding and sterility.

Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.

Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9772

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.456)
Summary:

Urges GJR to visit Hooker at Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9783

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.457)
Summary:

Discourages grafting ears of rabbits. Suggests comb of fowl.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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