From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
18 January 1874
Source of text:
MM/14/221, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
8 March 1874
Source of text:
MM/14/222, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William de Wiveleslie Abney
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 148
Summary:
Answers questions about chemistry (see 9202).
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 29
Summary:
Has rewritten paper on leaf arrangement after criticism by Royal Society referees. Has found new factor influencing leaf arrangement, i.e., spontaneous variability in the number of vertical leaf-ranks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Aitken
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 25 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 150–2
Summary:
Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Aksakov
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
29 January 1874
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 275
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[6 June 1874]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/4.l.1; Reel 11
Summary:
Encloses inventory of JH's unpublished manuscripts on General History of Double Stars, which AH forwarded to R.A.S. Estimates final total of JH's double star observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Émile Alglave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 39
Summary:
On EA’s persecution by new government for liberal–republican position of his Revues; threat to remove him from Faculté de Droit, unless he renounces relations with Revues or changes their politics.
Has reviewed CD’s Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 230: 37
Summary:
CD elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [See 9305.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George S. Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 58
Summary:
Sends CD photograph of a "natural curiosity", a bear apparently "painted" with red iron on the face of a soft rock; has also sent copies to a few U. S. scientists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Gold Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 113
Summary:
Sends old Japanese picture suggesting evolution, found by Charles Longfellow.
Is pleased to hear CD attended a séance [18 Jan 1874]; asks for his views about communication among spirits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gerald Geoghegan, Inland Revenue, Somerset House
To:
Walter White
Date:
3 June 1874
Source of text:
MM/22/36, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1892
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Ball
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 34
Summary:
Received CD’s note late and so could not comply, but promises to vote in future for anyone CD recommends for Athenaeum.
Will have new evidence on dog’s intelligence sent to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Gerard Winstanley Bancks
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[April] [1874]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/12
Summary:
Asking ARW to accept enclosed pamphlets; Bancks a great admirer of ARW's work on spiritualism (On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism, [1874]).
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Howe Bancroft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 38
Summary:
Sends a volume and will send next volumes of a work intended to contribute to the study of mankind.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 91
Summary:
Books CD requested have been packed and sent.
He will present CD with the classified catalogue [of Royal Geographical Society].
He has not learned whereabouts of Thomas Staley.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 92
Summary:
Notes that Mr[s] Barber’s communication [forwarded by CD] will be published because of more striking than usual facts ["Notes on … larva and pupa of Papilio nireus", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1874): 519–21].
Encloses Thomas Belt’s address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
