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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[19 October 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 106
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[27 October 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 300
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[8 October 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1407
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Bradshaw, Henry
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
8 October 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258: 448
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[14 October 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 547b
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[7 October 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 561
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[22 October 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 584
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
19 October [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1290
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[3 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 583
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 16 Oct 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 62
Summary:
Sends table showing relative force of impact of weight dropped on a plane inclined at different angles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 157–8
Summary:
Has heard that Mr Allen wishes to let his house and thinks it probable that it would suit his son [Francis]. Asks whether he may have refusal of it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Heinrich (Karl) Marx
Date:
1 Oct 1873
Source of text:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers D. 1013)
Summary:
Thanks KM for gift of his "great work on Capital" [2d German ed. of Das Kapital]. Wishes he understood more of "the deep & important subject of political Economy".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-7)
Summary:
Hears from Frank [Darwin] that Drosera behaves perversely. Suggests that motor influence may move longitudinally away from the excited glands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel William Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 40
Summary:
Information for CD’s use in investigating digestion by Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wuttke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 181: 189
Summary:
Sends tracing of ancient Egyptian illustration of dogs and cattle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 28
Summary:
Sends CD a draft of a letter to Nature [see 9087], which he thinks expresses CD’s meaning.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 12
Summary:
CD thinks GHD’s letter is an excellent clarification [of CD’s conjectural view on the elimination of useless parts in species], but does not want to publish it as his [CD’s] own. Asks GHD to think carefully before he publishes it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel William Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 41–2
Summary:
Sends formula for pure pepsin for experiments on digestion of Drosera, and information on legumin. Will send chlorophyll soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
4 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 16 October 1873, p. 505
Summary:
Sends, with CD’s approval, a clarification of CD’s explanation of how useless organs might diminish [see 9061]. Using Quetelet’s law of normal distribution GHD shows how horns of cattle, having become useless, would gradually diminish and finally disappear.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
- Bradshaw, Henry1
- Dabney, Virginius1
- Darwin, C. R.30
- Darwin, Elizabeth2
- Darwin, Emma4
- Darwin, Francis2
- Darwin, G. H.6
- Darwin, W. E.2
- Ehrenberg, C. G.1
- Fiske, John1
- Frankland, Edward2
- Gladstone, John Hall1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Hooker, J. D.8
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Moore, S. W.3
- Mueller, Ferdinand von6
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.1
- Wade, W. S.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel2
- Wuttke, Emma1
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