From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 May [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 436
Summary:
Asks Murray not to announce Cross and self-fertilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
4 May [1873]
Source of text:
Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997)
Summary:
Explains that his publisher has erred in announcing his book [Cross and self-fertilisation] prematurely. [See 8890 and 8897.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
5 May [1873]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix von Luschan
Date:
5 May 1873
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. Felix v. Luschan: Darwin, Charles)
Summary:
Thanks FL for sending his essays and some photographs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Ernst von Baer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 15
Summary:
Has been told CD wants photo of him; sends one. Requests a portrait photo of CD for his album. KEvB apologises for his English and his shaky hand; he is 88 years old.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
5 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 434
Summary:
Comments on HM’s book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Particularly glad to read historical sketch and discussion of work of C. K. Sprengel.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
5 May [1873]
Source of text:
James P. Evans (private collection)
Summary:
Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung den Blumen durch Insekten (1873).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Fletcher Barrett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 46
Summary:
Because of current interest in hereditary instinct, relates incident about a baby alligator, just emerged from its shell, attempting to bite a human.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Bray Leffen
Date:
7 May 1873
Source of text:
State Library Victoria, Melbourne (MS 6219, Box 231/3. Diary of G. F. Belcher vol. 3)
Summary:
Thanks for note and information.
Mentions venomous caterpillars in Africa and Australia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Marriott Canby
Date:
7 May 1873
Source of text:
Natural History Society of Delaware
Summary:
Thanks for the Dionaea leaves. They support CD’s anticipation that they are adapted to let the smaller fry escape [see Insectivorous plants, p. 312].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 140
Summary:
Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller on fertilisation [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Publication plans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
8 May [1873]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 104–105)
Summary:
John Murray has announced his next book [Cross and self-fertilisation] without CD’s knowledge. It is only half-written. JVC will hear when it is published and will decide whether it is worth translating. It will be dry, but, CD believes, of value.
Has read an account of JVC’s Scottish lectures.
Invites JVC to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 76: B181–2, DAR 77: 139
Summary:
Praises Expression.
Reports on Fritz Müller’s observations of cross- and self-fertilisation. HM will cultivate the two forms [i.e., mainly self-fertilised and mainly cross-fertilised] in the way CD has described.
He continues his observation of wild flowers. Encloses drawing of Viola tricolor with notes on its self-fertility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Jean Pozzi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 174: 60
Summary:
French translation of Expression [1874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 300
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s praise of his book [see 8901].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ludwik Masłowski
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 89
Summary:
Requests permission to translate Descent into Polish.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 100
Summary:
Samuel Pozzi’s translation of Expression progressing slowly.
J. J. Moulinié’s translation of Descent is stylistically poor, which may account for low sales.
Difficult to find European naturalists to translate CD’s works. They would rather write books on "Darwinisme" under their own names.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 67
Summary:
Has completed his book [The African sketch-book (1873)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
15 May 1873
Source of text:
Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018
Summary:
Asks for results of FH’s experiments fertilizing some flowers with pollen from the same flower, & other flowers with pollen from distinct flowers borne by the same plant.
Has read FH’s paper on the distribution of the seeds of the Graminæ (Hildebrand 1872, pp. 740–1) with great interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Jean Pozzi
Date:
15 May 1873
Source of text:
Nicholas Bourdet (private collection)
Summary:
Answers questions about the translations of some species names.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project