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DCP-LETT-8745

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 25
Summary:

Has sent phyllotaxy paper to G. G. Stokes with the letter from CD to show credentials.

Will not have time to read new Sachs edition CD offered.

Thanks for CD’s sponsorship of paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1873): 176–9].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8746

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 90
Summary:

On a correction JVC thinks should be made in Variation on vertebrae of ducks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8746F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Denison Baldwin
Date:
21 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
Steven S. Raab (dealer) (September 2001)
Summary:

Discusses JDB’s views on the spread of human-like creatures across the world, and the development of language.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8747

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 8
Summary:

Concerned about GHD’s health. Sends a prescription for a cough mixture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8748

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
23 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 100–101)
Summary:

Acknowledges correction in text of Variation . "You are a most conscientious editor & are as careful as I am apt to be careless."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8750

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 212
Summary:

The Naples Zoological Station and its library are growing fast. His life is a constant battle with the municipality, but has managed to make a little progress on vertebrate ancestry and morphology. His views get further away from what is generally accepted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8751

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 91
Summary:

A new [German] edition of Expression is to be done. Has CD anything to add or alter?

JVC cites an article on cessation of breathing during mental concentration that supports Gratiolet as quoted in Expression, p. 179.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8752

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
29 Jan [1873?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/37)
Summary:

Has heard from Ashwin Conway Newman of Guy’s Hospital of a case of a child without any prepuce whose father was a renegade, uncircumcised Jew, but whose ancestors had all been Jews. Newman thinks this a good case of inheritance with reversion. JP’s letter [missing] now shows how rash such a conclusion would be.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8753

From:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 138
Summary:

Sends a paper on evolution by his friend J. D. MacDonald ["Distribution of Invertebrata", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 218–23] for CD’s perusal before dispatching it to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9206F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
[before 16 Jan 1873]
Source of text:
Fourth report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science 1874 [C.884] XXII.1 (pp. 31–2)
Summary:

Encourages the government to keep the herbarium and library of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9829

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Othniel Charles Marsh
Date:
25 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (O. C. Marsh Papers (MS 343) Series 1, Box 8, folder 327)
Summary:

Thanks OCM for the papers he has sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1959

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 January [1873]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 250-251
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 280-281]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4108

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 January 1873
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 181: 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace 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-8719

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Date:
1 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Amy Nagashima (private collection)
Summary:

Asks for certain observations to be made on Drosera and Dionaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8749

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 434
Summary:

Popular Edition [6th] of Origin has sold out 3000 copies. Asks CD whether he has found any errors that should be corrected.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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