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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Elizabeth
Date:
2–3 January 1872
Source of text:
DAR 245: 7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1872–3]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1266
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1872–3]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1267
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1872–3]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1268
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Wedgwood, Hensleigh
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1872–4?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2362
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1292
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan [1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 65
Summary:
Sends a map of a field showing the effect of earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 146
Summary:
Extract from the History of the rise and progress of the Killerby, Studley and Warlaby herds of shorthorns by William Carr (1867).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 265
Summary:
Gives lengthy details from his medical experience on how structural and other changes in the parts of the eye are related to lacrimation.
Mentions belief in CD’s views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872–4]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 151–2
Summary:
Notes some corrections for 2d ed. of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Hough
Date:
15 Jan [1872-4]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Tipped into Origin 5th ed. Strong Room E 920 D1 (4))
Summary:
His thanks for the curious photograph. Since he has similar ones he will not "rob" AH of it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872]
Source of text:
S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408
Summary:
"I am at work on the nervous mimicry of organic disease: I have some hope that, during my work, I may fall on some facts which may be of interest to you, and you may be sure that I shall send them to you."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1872 or later?]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8051)
Summary:
Queries about the pitch of children’s crying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 101–2
Summary:
Gladstone’s private secretary [West] has written that the Government plans to alter JDH’s position with regard to the First Commissioner of Works [Ayrton].
Huxley is not better after his Brighton trip.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 105
Summary:
Worm action at Stonehenge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 277
Summary:
The difficulties of incorporating the reorganised chapters of the 6th English edition of Origin into JJM’s translation, which was made from the 5th edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 94: 216–17
Summary:
Heartily glad about the news of the Ayrton affair development.
Huxley looks very unwell from too much miscellaneous work; CD wishes he could be made a Director General for transference of British Museum and for other scientific work, as JDH suggests.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 30)
Summary:
Thanks for letter [8137]. Finds observation at Stonehenge of depth of mould at different parts of slope "most valuable".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 18
Summary:
Further details and measurements of the stones in the courtyard pavement for CD’s investigation of earthworm action.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 49)
Summary:
Sends comments on his diagram of Stonehenge. Will go to Beaulieu.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Harvard University Archives1
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- Natural History Museum and Archives5
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- Royal Society2
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- UCL Library Services3
- University of Rochester Library1
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