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:
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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:
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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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
25 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (38)
Summary:
Has given in Descent 2: 12, an account from AG of the brushes on the sides of Monacanthus; has now learned of brush-like scales on the males of Mallotus. Asks whether the two genera are related.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Nettleship Staley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 195–6
Summary:
Introduction of tropical fruits in Hawaiian Islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Temple Goodale
Date:
26 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Stephen R. Marzilli (private collection)
Summary:
Has not the strength to discuss WTG’s letter, and points out that every organism develops from a single cell.
Does not wish to see the Book WTG offered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project