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DCP-LETT-8699

From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 Apr 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 15
Summary:

Observations on her pet pug.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8700

From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[c. 29 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 16
Summary:

Wants the Anthropological Society renamed the Ethnological Society. Is trying to raise funds toward payment of the Society’s debt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8701

From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 14
Summary:

Observations on her pet cat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8702

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 29
Summary:

Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8703

From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 105
Summary:

Praise for and detailed comments on Expression.

Two cases of coloration in animals – one from sexual selection, the other helping to procure prey [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 542–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8703F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Agnes Huschke; Agnes Haeckel
Date:
[before 3 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A [34831])
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8704

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bromley Rural Sanitary Authority
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 165
Summary:

Gives opinion on the merits of Mr [Stephen P. J.] Eng[leheart (Darwin family doctor)]. Believes he would make an excellent county officer if elected to the district office of health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8705

From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 5 May 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 7
Summary:

Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller’s book on fertilisation [Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8706

From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 138
Summary:

Notes on CD’s Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8707

From:
George Leonard Jenyns
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker; Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Date:
[c. 19 Apr 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 142
Summary:

Recipient is to stay with CD;

sender relates some observations of dogs and birds, to be passed on to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8708

From:
Stanley Haynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 125
Summary:

Notes headed "Observations on the expression of the emotions".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8710

From:
Felix Choice
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 145
Summary:

Has read Expression, and assures CD some people cry when happy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8711

From:
James Brander Dunbar-Brander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 July 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 279
Summary:

Offers different explanations [from CD’s in Expression] for movements of dogs after voiding, and for their turning around before lying down.

CD is also wrong in saying hares do not cry except when they suffer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8712

From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 Jan 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 53.1: B44–9
Summary:

Translation of some of his annotations in Dutch edition of Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8713

From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873]
Source of text:
S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408
Summary:

"Sir William Gull has just brought me the enclosed quotations from Chaucer, as illustrations of the closure of the eyes in effort. [In "The Nun’s priest’s tale" in Canterbury tales the fox tricks Chanticleer into crowing, whereupon Chanticleer closes his eyes to make the effort (and gets seized by the fox).] He begs me to send them to you.

I have lately seen a terrier who very distinctly frowns during mental excitement – not always with anger, but often, I think, with anxiety, as in expecting food."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8713F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 11
Summary:

Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8714F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–15 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 10
Summary:

Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn’t suit him. May go to Pryor’s on Sunday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8715

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Nov] 1873 or [26 Apr or 6 Dec] 1874
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 30)
Summary:

Arranges a visit to CL.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8716

From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 44
Summary:

On expression among Kaffirs and Hottentots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8717

From:
Charles Loring Brace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Aug? 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 273 (fragile letters)
Summary:

Reports that the ability to move ears is common among the Sioux.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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