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DCP-LETT-9337

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

DCP-LETT-9313

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

DCP-LETT-9310

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

DCP-LETT-9311

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

DCP-LETT-9312

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

DCP-LETT-9315

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

DCP-LETT-9314

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:
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DCP-LETT-9313F

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

DCP-LETT-9316

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 89: 26–7
Summary:

Comments on several points in Descent,

doubts facts about Monacanthus brushes

and the two Cyprinidae males attending the female when spawning.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9317A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
26 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Wheldon & Wesley (dealers) (1984)
Summary:

Asks HBT whether he received the certificate nominating Robert Swinhoe for the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9319

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 29
Summary:

Asks CD to allow his name to be put on a committee to establish a Scientific Societies Club for the fellows of the six societies that will have rooms in Burlington House.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9320

From:
Eugène Desmarest
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 172
Summary:

CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9318

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 8b (EH 88205933)
Summary:

The land CD wants to buy probably belongs to his marriage-settlement and would thus be difficult to sell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9322

From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 47–8, DAR 160: 340
Summary:

Reports negative results of his experiments on digestion of chlorophyll by Drosera and by animals. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 126.]

Sends references for chondrin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9323

From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 184: 17
Summary:

CD’s son is considering translating into English HHHvZ’s notes in Dutch edition of Expression; HHHvZ feels his notes to Descent would be of more interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9327

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:
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DCP-LETT-9326

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:
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DCP-LETT-9383

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

DCP-LETT-9329

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

DCP-LETT-9332

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:
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