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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[14 October 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 571
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[21 October 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 604
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[20 October 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1264
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
29 October 1872
Source of text:
DAR 258: 800
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
30 October [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1291
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
[after 11 Oct 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 284
Summary:
Discusses printing of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
[25 Oct 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 285
Summary:
Comments on discussions with C. Reinwald concerning French edition of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 421
Summary:
Has learned that German edition [of Expression] will be on larger pages than English one. No copies of heliotype plates [for Expression] have been delivered. Hopes Heliotype Company is not going to throw them over. Suggests CD write a strong letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 229–30
Summary:
Is sending Drosera back
and "the curious Kerguelen book".
"Drosera has almost been the death of me."
Hopes the accursed man [Ayrton] does not give JDH any more trouble.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 422
Summary:
Heliotype Company assures RC all 8000 sets of the plates [for Expression] will be ready next week.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 181
Summary:
Discusses the coiling of tendrils of climbing plants.
AG’s recent tour of the U. S.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 216
Summary:
He will send his book [Harvesting ants and trap-door spiders (1873)]. Describes two new types of trap-door spider nests.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 121–3
Summary:
Miscellaneous personal matters.
What does CD think of Robert Mallet’s earthquake theory? Would it not account for strata dipping at base of range of mountains?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 84
Summary:
Has translated half of Expression; is delighted with it. Comments on some points that he questions.
Is at work on concluding part of his handbook of zoology [Handbuch der Zoologie, 2 vols. (1863–75), with A. Gerstaecker].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 423
Summary:
Expression is now almost ready. The plates will require great care in the binding.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
9 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 378
Summary:
Discusses JTM’s research on habits of insects. "How incomparably more valuable are such researches than the mere description of a thousand species."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 85
Summary:
Corrects CD’s spelling of the name of a statue: the Arrotino (spelled "Arretino" by CD) [see Expression, p. 184, on grief-muscles].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 424
Summary:
D. Appleton has been sent 3000 sets of plates [for Expression]. Hopes to publish [Expression] on 12 Nov.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 58
Summary:
Much experiment and observation needed before spontaneous generation will be empirically advanced, but philosophically the matter is clear.
Thinks Ludwig Rütimeyer has attacked EH to satisfy pious opinion in Basel.
Will soon be finished with his monograph Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 64
Summary:
Huxley will be asked to review Expression in Pall Mall Gazette.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project