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DCP-LETT-8843

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 261–2
Summary:

Wants to discuss raising a testimonial fund for Huxley and whether Huxley would stand this.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8845

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Davidson
Date:
7 Apr 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.426)
Summary:

Thanks TD for catalogue of his Cretacean fossils.

Regrets he cannot visit Brighton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8848A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 6
Summary:

Sends to Pantlludw [North Wales] bottle of formic acid. FD and Amy [Darwin] can search for spawn. If found, keep in two basins and add 6 drops of acid to one and look for differences.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8850

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 13 (EH 88205951)
Summary:

CD will write to William Spottiswoode about the fund for Huxley. CD is raising his subscription to £300. "We have done a good day’s work … [it] gives me a higher opinion of human nature than I had before, though I am not one of those who think lowly of mankind."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8851

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Spottiswoode
Date:
[8 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 169–70
Summary:

Discusses the arrangements being made to present a gift to Huxley [see 8872].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8853

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 3 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 10 April 1873, pp. 443–4
Summary:

"The following fact with respect to the habits of ants, which I believe to be quite new, has been sent to me by a distinguished geologist, Mr J. D. Hague [see 8788]; and it appears well worth publishing."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8856

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 14 (EH 88205952)
Summary:

Sends JT the list and amounts subscribed for Huxley. It will probably amount to £1800. He will write to Huxley and use every argument he can to make him accept.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8858

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
12 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (40)
Summary:

CD did not bring any tortoises back from the Galapagos. There may be specimens at the Military Institution in Whitehall.

Sorry AG was unable to lunch with the Darwins during their stay in London.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8858F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Walter Merriam
Date:
13 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Tinker 1953 , p. 331
Summary:

Thanks AWM for "Comus" and an abusive New Orleans Mardi Gras newspaper editorial; he cannot tell from the "wonderful mistakes" whether the writer is "witty, ignorant, or blunders for the sake of fun".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8862

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 6
Summary:

"Try only 1 or 2 drops of Formic A[cid]."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8863

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
17 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (LET3016)
Summary:

Thanks LB for his essay on local biology.

CD with much care and discomfort is now able to work a few hours almost every day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8864

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Reuter
Date:
17 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 226–227)
Summary:

Thanks for letter and curious photographs. Urges AR not to send anything valuable unless he publishes it elsewhere because CD is growing old and may not have strength and time to continue his former researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8865

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
17 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 344
Summary:

Photographs sent by JC-B show great power of acting.

David Ferrier’s researches sound wonderful. Does he believe that he excites an idea and this leads to the movement, or that he acts directly on the motor nerves?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8866

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 7
Summary:

Fears all the seeds are dead. Will try with less vapour of formic acid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8867

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
18 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953)
Summary:

The Huxley fund amounts to £1955. CD trembles about THH’s answer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8869

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
21 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 7 (EH 88205924)
Summary:

Writes of his extreme interest in WBC’s article ["On the hereditary transmission of acquired psychical habits", Contemp. Rev. 21 (1873): 779–95].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8872

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 295)
Summary:

Informs THH that 18 friends have given him a fund of £2100 to enable him to take a holiday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8875

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
25 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 297)
Summary:

Affected by THH’s letter – will send a copy to the other 17 friends. Hopes for his and public’s sake his health will improve.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8876

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Subscribers to T. H. Huxley gift
Date:
[25 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 71
Summary:

A circular letter forwarding to subscribers a copy of Huxley’s letter of thanks [8873].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8877

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 16 (EH 88205954)
Summary:

Sends Huxley’s "charming letter". Asks whether it should be sent to Lady Millicent Jones. CD is "so happy about the whole affair".

Contributor:
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