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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.

Contributor:
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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-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-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-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-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-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:
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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:
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DCP-LETT-9221

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
12 [Dec 1874 - Jan 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 43
Summary:

Regrets the trouble GHD has had.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9755

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer
Date:
12 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for work on Lacerta muralis coerulea [Zoologische Studien auf Capri 2 (1874)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9752A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
[12 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 1
Summary:

Thanks for translation of his Journal of researches. Is pleased by its appearance.

Also thank Edmond Barbier for his kind words. [See 9752.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9757

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 350–1, DAR 97: C73
Summary:

Thanks JDH for his and Huxley’s countering of the false attack on George [Darwin] by Mivart. Encloses a note to Mivart on which he asks JDH’s opinion.

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DCP-LETT-9758

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Dec 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 342–3)
Summary:

Sends a suggested title [for Insectivorous plants?].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9760

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
15 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (Rathbone XXI.12.3: 4)
Summary:

Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.

Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.

Contributor:
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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-9763F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/4)
Summary:

Asks four favours: sort out confusion about the name Byblis gigantea or grandiflora; can he see dried specimens of Genlisea ornata; is there a more recent list of Drosera spp. than Steudel 1841; are there at Kew any dried specimens of Utricularia montana collected from the plant’s native haunts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9765F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Sidgwick
Date:
19 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Thanks for his Methods of ethics [1874].

Contributor:
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