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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Enrico Hillyer Giglioli
Date:
6 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Andrusier Autographs (dealer) (22 November 2013)
Summary:

Thanks his Italian colleague for articles on the skull of a chimpanzee.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Chapman
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Western University Archives, History of Medicine Collection, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (A04-011-051)
Summary:

Thanks for Chapman 1873 (Chapman, John. 1873. Neuralgia and kindred diseases of the nervous system).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 102–103)
Summary:

Has no corrections for second German edition [of Expression]. Plans to bring out an improved edition in a year or two.

Thanks for reference JVC sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Marriott Canby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 25
Summary:

At Asa Gray’s request, responds to CD’s questions about WMC’s observations on Dionaea and particularly about the size of the insects captured and the excitability of the leaves after an insect is captured.

Contributor:
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From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 217
Summary:

He does not accept Wallace’s definition of instinct because it excludes "inherited experience", i.e., "knowledge acquired by and transmitted through ancestors".

House-flies do not seem to have an instinctive fear of trap-door spiders.

Miss Forster gives him news of CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Date:
3 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/474/2); Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
Summary:

Thanks for J. D. MacDonald’s paper ["Distribution of invertebrata", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 218–23].

CD feels lines of genetic connection between animals offer a most difficult problem; Ernst Haeckel may have done mischief by facing the difficulty.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
3 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Cambridge University Archives (GEOL 9/*1 2b)
Summary:

A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
4 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.411)
Summary:

Is glad JEG has made out what the guemul is ["On the Guémul", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 10 (1872): 445–6; 11 (1873): 214–20, 308–10].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 30
Summary:

Cannot find a publisher for Italian translation of Expression. Gives up the project.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 62
Summary:

Would like a museum set up illustrating origins, varieties, and uses of domestic animals; seeks CD’s approval of the idea.

Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 328
Summary:

Forwards Matthew Arnold’s Literature and dogma [1873].

Hopes they can secure Hooker for President of Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Matthew Arnold
Date:
9 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 1
Summary:

Thanks MA for his Literature and dogma [1873].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 435
Summary:

Encloses cheque for 1000 guineas, CD’s share of profits on first 7000 copies of Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
11 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Thinks FBG’s idea of a room at the British Museum of domestic birds and animals an excellent one, but a collection of plants would be much more difficult.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Date:
11 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Kotte Autographs (dealers) (30 October 2008)
Summary:

Is sorry that CIFM has had to give up translating Expression into Italian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 13 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 13 February 1873, pp. 281–2
Summary:

Sends a letter from William Huggins about a case of inherited fright in three generations of mastiffs. Discusses the different origins of instincts and their inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
William Huggins
Date:
15 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 105: A72–3
Summary:

Returns family documents about "Kepler" [William Huggins’ dog, see Collected papers 2: 170–1]; there is still some sort of investigation into the "precise mental condition" of "Kepler" and his relatives.

Contributor:
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From:
Mariabella Hodgkin; Mariabella Fry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 220
Summary:

Remarks on the "grief-muscles" shown in a Dürer picture.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
Date:
17 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828)
Summary:

Is glad JLGK has been interested in Descent.

Thanks him for his observations on monkey behaviour [see 8698]

and drawings of skulls, which CD has sent to George Busk.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 257–8
Summary:

Is drawing up the account of his crossing experiments. Requests JDH to add the families after nine genera, the names of which he encloses. Whenever there is no objection he would like to arrange the families in some sort of natural order.

Recommends Spalding’s article on instinct in Macmillan’s Magazine [27 (1873): 265–81].

Contributor:
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