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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
27 February [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 25
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
12 February 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258: 556
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
28 February [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 557
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[12 February 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1269
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[8 February 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1729
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[23 February 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1730
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Myers, A. T.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
17 February [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1747
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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:
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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:
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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:
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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].
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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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:
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