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From:
George Hookham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 266
Summary:

A fact on expression: sheep do use hoofs in fighting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
11 May [1873]
Source of text:
Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Herter Box 1)
Summary:

Requests litmus paper and gum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 May 1873]
Source of text:
Pearson 1914–30 , 2: 177–8
Summary:

Collecting information about antecedents of eminent men of science. Sends questionnaire.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 May 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 89
Summary:

Publisher [Schweizerbart] has seen CD’s new book advertised [Cross and self-fertilisation] and wishes to publish a German translation of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 298
Summary:

Missed hostile review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Agrees it might be by J. H. Stirling [see 8935], who has written in a deplorably polemical style on Huxley and Sir William Hamilton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
1 May 1873
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:

Asks whether, in Italy, varieties of Lathyrus odoratus, Pisum sativum, and Phaseolus multiflorus must be grown separately to come true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isidoro Dell’Oro
Date:
2 May 1873
Source of text:
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 02.014)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for sending him an account of silkworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
2 [May] 1873
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 19 (EH 88205957)
Summary:

Hopes JT does not think him over-cautious in requesting the return of the copies [of Huxley’s letter]. Has sent Huxley a list of the subscribers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 118
Summary:

Suggests hopping lizards may show the connection between reptiles and birds as proposed by Huxley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 74
Summary:

Hopes affairs will enable him to get back to flowers.

Huxley’s letter [about the fund raised for him] was noble. Would like to have seen CD’s to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 May [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 436
Summary:

Asks Murray not to announce Cross and self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
4 May [1873]
Source of text:
Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997)
Summary:

Explains that his publisher has erred in announcing his book [Cross and self-fertilisation] prematurely. [See 8890 and 8897.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
5 May [1873]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix von Luschan
Date:
5 May 1873
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. Felix v. Luschan: Darwin, Charles)
Summary:

Thanks FL for sending his essays and some photographs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Ernst von Baer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 15
Summary:

Has been told CD wants photo of him; sends one. Requests a portrait photo of CD for his album. KEvB apologises for his English and his shaky hand; he is 88 years old.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
5 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 434
Summary:

Comments on HM’s book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Particularly glad to read historical sketch and discussion of work of C. K. Sprengel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
5 May [1873]
Source of text:
James P. Evans (private collection)
Summary:

Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung den Blumen durch Insekten (1873).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Fletcher Barrett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 46
Summary:

Because of current interest in hereditary instinct, relates incident about a baby alligator, just emerged from its shell, attempting to bite a human.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Bray Leffen
Date:
7 May 1873
Source of text:
State Library Victoria, Melbourne (MS 6219, Box 231/3. Diary of G. F. Belcher vol. 3)
Summary:

Thanks for note and information.

Mentions venomous caterpillars in Africa and Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project