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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
10 Nov [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maria Isabella Snow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 [Nov 1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 213
Summary:

Describes her experiences of blushing on her hands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 146: 13
Summary:

Obliged for letter on worm-castings. Asks GK to observe them in southern Europe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
2 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for AdeC’s Histoire des sciences [1873].

Sends a copy of Expression.

His health keeps him weak; he dreads grappling with the fearful subject of variation [in nature]

so he is working up some observations in botanical physiology to publish with his old papers on climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 51)
Summary:

Is delighted to receive expression. Some comments on swallowing and scratching. Asks to be sent reviews.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ludwig Heinrich Jeitteles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 184: 7
Summary:

Sends CD a copy of the second part of his paper on the remains and antiquities of Olmütz in Moravia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Smith Craig
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 96: 112
Summary:

A number of students wish to nominate CD as Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen and JSC inquires whether CD’s state of health would prevent his standing as a candidate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 83
Summary:

Asks CD’s opinion of John Denny’s idea that males have prepotent transmission power in plants. A. J. F. Wegmann says the females are prepotent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Auguste Benjamin Hippolyte (Auguste) Houzeau de Lehaie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 274
Summary:

Has received Expression and will forward it to his brother [Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 65
Summary:

Observations on expression: women gnash teeth when sexually excited. W. Africans do not kiss.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 428
Summary:

Is convinced that 2000 more copies [of Expression] must be printed without delay in order to meet demand. He therefore asks CD to send his corrections to the printer at once.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Maudsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 94
Summary:

Thanks for Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 254
Summary:

Has finished reading Descent and sends some comments [missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ludwig Heinrich Jeitteles
Date:
7 Nov 1872
Source of text:
Knox College Seymour Library, Special Collections and Archives (Bookfellow Foundation Scrapbooks, p.47)
Summary:

Thanks LHJ for a memoir [about remains and antiquities of Olmütz in Moravia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Smith Craig
Date:
7 Nov 1872
Source of text:
University of Aberdeen Library, Special Collections (MS 2289)
Summary:

Cannot accept honour of nomination as Lord Rector [of Aberdeen University].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A67–8
Summary:

Sends thanks for Expression; offers some additions, and will send printed queries abroad if CD wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
7 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Has sent off a few trifling errata [of Expression] to Mr Clowes. Asks about the heliotypes.

Would like to hear about the sale of his books. [See 8616.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/12)
Summary:

Rabbits’ coats true in character. If the next ones are true, it is superfluous to keep trying.

Does not know why crying children rub eyes with knuckles.

Mentions FG’s article on prayer ["Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 12 (1872): 125–35].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 130–2
Summary:

Has been asked to take shares in the Artizans’ Dwellings Co., in which CD is a shareholder. If it is really a project for public good, he would be glad to be associated.

Owen has answered his letter in Nature [7 (1872): 5–7].

A letter from Tyndall [from America] was read at the X Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 133–4
Summary:

Writes, as a P.S. to his previous letter, stating his friends have advised him not to answer Owen’s attack.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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