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DCP-LETT-10581F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles John Plumptre
Date:
19 Aug [1873?]
Source of text:
Plumptre 1876, pp. 224–5
Summary:

Agrees François Delsarte’s view [that the eyes do not show emotion, only indicate the object of it], is probably wrong.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11337A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
28 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 68, 1990)
Summary:

Is pleased that HHHvZ has appended his notes to his translation [of Expression and is obliged for the abstract of these notes [see 8712].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13772G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
11 Dec [1873-5]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/2)
Summary:

Requests hydrated magnesia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13794

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 26 June 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 5
Summary:

Sends FD £5 for the loan of his microscope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7429A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
6 Jan [1873-4]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

"If you will apply to any bookseller whatever you will procure a copy.–– Publisher Murray."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8139F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Jan [1873-4]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. 141 (Slg. Adam) 33, Darwin, Charles)
Summary:

CD appreciates the correspondent’s suggestion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 253–6
Summary:

Drosophyllum arrived; none of his observations turned out as he expected, but nevertheless he understands its habits better than he did. The secreting hairs that he observed may be explained as a mere chemical reaction.

Comments on various articles he has read.

Asks for Thiselton-Dyer’s notes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8201A

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

DCP-LETT-8251

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Willett
Date:
26 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD subscribes an additional £10.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8287

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
15 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 31
Summary:

Discusses error in CD’s calculation of natural increase of elephants.

Includes extract from Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin
Date:
30 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 27
Summary:

HCFJ’s review of the Origin was the wittiest and in some respects the best written.

Thanks him for his Electricity and magnetism [1873].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
11 May [1873]
Source of text:
Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Herter Box 1)
Summary:

Requests litmus paper and gum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8524

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
18 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (B MS Misc.)
Summary:

JJW is quite at liberty to use CD’s name as patron of cat show.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8552F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 327
Summary:

Hopes that Charles Lyell has enjoyed his excursion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8703F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Agnes Huschke; Agnes Haeckel
Date:
[before 3 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A [34831])
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8704

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bromley Rural Sanitary Authority
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 165
Summary:

Gives opinion on the merits of Mr [Stephen P. J.] Eng[leheart (Darwin family doctor)]. Believes he would make an excellent county officer if elected to the district office of health.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8715

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Nov] 1873 or [26 Apr or 6 Dec] 1874
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 30)
Summary:

Arranges a visit to CL.

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-8724

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/14)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s article ["Hereditary improvement", Fraser’s Mag. 87 (1873): 116–30]. Finds it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race".

Thanks for rabbits for Balfour.

Mentions reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas [of life (1872)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8726

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 243–7
Summary:

Asks whether his observations on absorptive powers of glandular hairs of plants are new facts.

Asks for a Drosophyllum.

Comments on Francis Galton’s article in Fraser’s Magazine,

Greg’s Enigmas,

and Alphonse de Candolle’s Histoire des sciences.

Contributor:
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