From:
Eliza Phillips Thruston Houk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 272
Summary:
Sends paper she read before AAAS, but which was not accepted for Proceedings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Hoyle Howorth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 28–9
Summary:
On the extinction of populations. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 183.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Has no objection to having his name appear as honorary member of [unidentified] club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Augustus Jessopp
Date:
4 January 1874
Source of text:
University Archives Auction (auction)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
5 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 347
Summary:
Requests help for George Darwin’s investigation of marriages of first cousins. Seeks to determine proportion of first-cousin offspring among the insane, deaf and dumb, blind, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 299
Summary:
Mentions family news;
sends a little magazine [missing] dealing with South American mission and showing "what teaching and the gospel of Christ is doing for those poor Natives".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
6 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks BJS for the missionary pamphlet and his good account of the Fuegians.
Is under the care of Andrew Clark, and feels "very old & helpless".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Waring
Date:
6 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Kent History and Library Centre (CKS-U1906/Z/1)
Summary:
CD has previously received information on colours of greyhounds. Now asks whether breeders rear all puppies, and, if not, do they selectively rear more males or females?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 28
Summary:
W. J. Beal’s paper ["Phyllotaxis of cones", Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 449–53] shows incompleteness of HA’s theory, but does not invalidate his basic principles on origin of leaf arrangement or the broad applicability of the theory.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 310; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray Correspondence: Letter from Gray to Hooker, folio 658)
Summary:
Thanks JDH for Asa Gray’s interesting letter.
Would like JDH’s copy of Coral reefs. Needs it for corrections for a new edition. Cannot buy one.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
8 Jan 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127)
Summary:
Pleased they will publish a new edition of Coral reefs, and he will soon consider any addenda and write a short preface.
Will return the wood-blocks of Journal of Researches the following week.
Could his copy of Coral Reefs please be returned.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 3
Summary:
CD is glad Horace has done "pretty well" in his examination.
Smith and Elder will publish new edition of Coral reefs [1874]; thanks HD for aid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Waring
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 76–8
Summary:
Breeders normally destroy weak and puny puppies in large litters, but would keep females if only one or two.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Clark, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.436)
Summary:
Invites AC to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
11 January [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1737
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
11 January 1874
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 190-191]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Waring
Date:
12 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Kent History and Library Centre (CKS-U1906/Z/1)
Summary:
CD requests WW to ask a large breeder of greyhounds whether the increase in litters requires that some puppies be destroyed. If so, is it sufficient to destroy merely the small and weak? Would this result in more males or females being destroyed?
CD once used the Field to tabulate ratios of female to male births in greyhounds (110: 100).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[13 January 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 614
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[13 Jan 1874]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6)
Summary:
The coral-reef book has been invaluable [J. D. Dana, Corals and coral islands (1872); used by CD in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)].
Thanks for Saturday Review.
Contributor:
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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
13 January 1874
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1735
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters