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DCP-LETT-8686

From:
A Smither
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 203
Summary:

Considers that the erection of hair and feathers in fear may serve a real defensive purpose, which he details.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8687

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 327
Summary:

Personal affairs – the move to Marlborough Place.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8688

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
20 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/28)
Summary:

Comments on EH’s forthcoming [Die Kalkschwämme (1872)].

Thinks EH is working much too hard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8689

From:
Samuel John Housley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 87: 54–5
Summary:

Describes the pointed right ear of his son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8690

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
21 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 143: 416
Summary:

Mentions publication of Expression.

Asks whether children born blind ever frown, shed tears, or contract orbicular muscles.

Congratulates FCD on his anniversary [as Professor at Utrecht].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Hack Tuke
Date:
22 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Boston College Libraries, John J. Burns Library (Authors Collection (MS 1986–087) Box 4, Folder 32)
Summary:

Comments on DHT’s Influence of the mind upon the body [1872].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8692

From:
Paolo Mantegazza
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 39
Summary:

Ecstatic praise of CD and Expression, which has transformed physiognomy.

Sends his papers on sadness ["Dell’azione del dolore", Gaz. Med. Ital. Lombarda (1866, 1867)]. Sends some observations on physiognomy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8693

From:
H. Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 144
Summary:

Comments on Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8694

From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 219
Summary:

Introduces himself as an acquaintance of E. A. Darwin. Offers miscellaneous observations on human expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8695

From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 234
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Expression.

Agrees to observe expression in children born blind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8696

From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 189
Summary:

Sends story of a dog’s suicide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8696A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paolo Mantegazza
Date:
28 Dec 1872
Source of text:
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 30.066)
Summary:

Thanks for the letter commending Expression [see 8692]. CD "was not at all sure the work was worth publishing".

Acknowledges receipt of some pamphlets from PM, which his wife will translate.

Regretfully must refuse PM’s offer to translate Expression since it has been promised to another.

Has now received PM’s Physiology of pleasure [Fisiologia del piacere (1870)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
30 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/13)
Summary:

F. M. Balfour wants to experiment on Pangenesis. Asks FG to recommend coloured rabbits that breed true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8698

From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 169: 117
Summary:

Has read CD’s latest book and will make observations for CD.

Reports on a monkey that throws things when "angry".

Explains how natives count to more than four; CD incorrect on this point.

Sends photographs of blacks.

Cicadas out in force.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000891

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
10 December 1872
Source of text:
MM/14/161, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000892

From:
August Dupre
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
12 December 1872
Source of text:
MM/14/162, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC1205

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
24 December 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.199-201, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1547

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
23 December 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.27, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC246

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Date:
4 December 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.78, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC361

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
-12-1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Thiselton-Dyer that his wife, Frances Hooker, is unwell & so JDH will not be coming to work [in the RBG Kew herbarium] for a few days. He asks Thiselton-Dyer to consult Mrs Hooker's letters to determine what needs doing, & to continue work on the FLORA INDICA. If he completes the Dipterocarpeae Thiselton-Dyer should put the Impatiens in order for description. JDH has written to Daniel Oliver [Keeper of the herbarium] to ask him to put miscellaneous dried collections in order by genera. JDH will need to come to work to do the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, when will depend on his wife's health.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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