From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
15 June 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.225-228, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Wedgwood, Hensleigh
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
15 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2358
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Marie Grandclément
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 15 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 88
Summary:
Thanks CD for his answer to his letter. It has not convinced him – he still sees no reason to believe in the prophylactic effect of the vaccine.
Sends an article he has written answering Émile Blanchard of the Academy. Naturalists in France who occupy official positions are not independent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 439
Summary:
In doubt about size of printing of the 2d edition of Descent. Profit on 2000 at 12s would be only £250.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library, DAR. 171.2 (4)/283
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Bennett
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 185
Summary:
AG’s article in Nature was "just and moderate".
Sends his review of C. Hodge’s What is Darwinism? (1874) [Nation 18 (1874): 348–51].
It is uphill work making a theist out of CD.
Gives further observations on Sarracenia variolaris.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 283
Summary:
Wants information from CD for a revision of the supplement of his work on timber trees and other industrial plants [Proc. Zool. & Acclim. Soc. Victoria 3 (1874): 47–95].
Reports the ruin of his department thanks to two papers by Edward Wilson, McKinnon, and Sparrow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
17 June [1874]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 118–119)
Summary:
Asks JVC if he can provide introductions in Leipzig and Dresden for his son George.
Has not yet received any revised sheets of Descent [2d English ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
17 June [1874]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 340–1)
Summary:
Hopes a printing of 2000 copies [of Descent, 2d ed.] will be safe. Regrets price must be 12s. He is sure it is much improved.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 108
Summary:
Sends CD some cobra poison for his experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 166
Summary:
Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Shark embryology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 137; Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154)
Summary:
Sends references on Utricularia and Pinguicula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
18 June 1874
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1871-6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 June 1874
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154)
Summary:
Asks for living plant of Utricularia and information on Pinguicula lusitanica. Gives notes on habitats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Williams Keen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 169: 3
Summary:
The lack of a hereditary effect of circumcision among Jews argues against CD’s views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 60–1
Summary:
Sends cartilage from cat’s ear, the elastic fibres of which will probably resist digestion [by Drosera]. Is preparing fibro-cartilage, which he expects will be digested easily. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 104.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 186
Summary:
Writes of his article in Nature. Corrects some errors that have appeared in the published version.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Henry? Smith
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.98, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Henry William Jackson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 47: 203–4
Summary:
Cites instances of invariable correlations of colour he has observed in cats, dogs, and sheep. [See Variation, 2d ed., 2: 316.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
