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DCP-LETT-8501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
[after 12] Sept 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Darwin Misc. Letters 8)
Summary:

Note authorising James West to collect Transactions on CD’s behalf.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
23 Sept 1872
Source of text:
Moulinié trans. 1873, pp. ix–x
Summary:

States his reasons for authorising JJM to translate the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[2 Sept 1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Huxley’s report of Bastian’s having watched the development of the scale of Sphagnum. The importance of studies of possible causes of heterogenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8506

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
2 Sept 1872
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/27)
Summary:

Comments on EH’s criticism of authors in third edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1872].

Discusses book by H. C. Bastian [The beginnings of life (1872)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8510

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
4 Sept [1872?]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Orders some salts for plant experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernest Edwards
Date:
4 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 96: 148–9
Summary:

Testimonial letter stating how valuable CD found their advice and information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
6 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Recommends J. C. Houzeau’s Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux [1872].

Was glad to make CW’s acquaintance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8517

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
12 Sept 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Darwin Misc. Letters 9)
Summary:

Instructions for forwarding a parcel and outstanding issues of Transactions due him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8523

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
17 Sept [1872?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders sulphuric ether, nitric ether, chloroform, and prussic acid [for Drosera experiments? See Insectivorous plants, pp. 209, 219].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8525

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
18 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

CD sends schedule for VOK’s visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8531

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
23 Sept 1872
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 88–89)
Summary:

Thanks JVC for his History of zoology [Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Charl. Darwin (1872)]. Considers the title one of the greatest honours ever paid him.

Reports on foreign orders for the heliotype plates of Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8533

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
24 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Sends proof-sheets [of Expression].

Is unwell and must stop work and leave home for a time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8536

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Félix Joseph Henri (Henri) de Lacaze-Duthiers
Date:
28 Sept 1872
Source of text:
Archives de l’Académie des sciences, Paris (27 J Fonds Lacaze-Duthiers)
Summary:

Thanks HdeL-D for two papers on Ascidians [by A. Giard in Arch. Zool. 1 (1872): 233–88; 397–428].

Some of the expressions in HdeL-D’s paper ["Direction des études zoologiques", Arch. Zool. 1 (1872): 1–64] made CD think he accepted the principle of evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8537

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

DCP-LETT-8538

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

DCP-LETT-8539F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Date:
[after 30 Sept 1872]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 148)
Summary:

Requesting two books by Lionel Smith Beale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8540

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
3 Oct 1872
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 262)
Summary:

Arrangements for foreign editions [of Expression]. Delay by Heliotype Company is provoking.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8541

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Harris
Date:
4 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
University of California Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division (Ms. 10, Letters concerning George Harris’s A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man )
Summary:

Thanks GH for his Theory of the ants [1869] and offers to supply any zoological information that he can.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8542

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

DCP-LETT-8550

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
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