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DCP-LETT-9185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down School Board
Date:
19 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/4)
Summary:

Expresses his opinion that the Board should allow the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evenings by the villagers of Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
Date:
20 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for copy of translation of Variation

and the "admirable work on the microscopical structure of rock" [C. G. Ehrenberg, Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 308–9
Summary:

His indignation at the malignant, odious, hypocrite Owen’s attack on JDH. History of Secretaryship [of Royal Society in Nature 9 (1873): 129–30] was best answer to Owen.

Is hard at work on new edition of Descent – a truly awful job.

No use going on with experiments on effects of water on bloom-divested leaves. May have erred. Or it may be that water is only injurious when there is a good supply of actinic rays. Will wait until spring.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9188

From:
John Langdon Haydon Down
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 87: 61–2
Summary:

Describes an ear from a microcephalous idiot, which does not lend support to Ludwig Mayer’s view [that points on ears are mere variations; see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 15–16].

Is working on involution rather than evolution, with results confirming CD’s teaching.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9189

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 3–4)
Summary:

Concerning secretion of "bloom";

movements of Robinia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9189F

From:
George Sketchley Ffinden
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/5)
Summary:

Answers Emma Darwin’s request that the school room be used in the winter as a Reading Room. Protests the Darwins approaching the Education Department directly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9190

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 321
Summary:

Is about to undertake an intensive investigation with other scientists of general paralysis in its various aspects. Would appreciate CD’s comments on photographs he would submit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9191

From:
John Langdon Haydon Down
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 87: 63–4
Summary:

Describes features of an ear of a microcephalous idiot, one of which contradicts Carl Vogt’s views [Mémoire sur les microcéphales (1867)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Date:
30 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Nachlass Ehrenburg, Nr. 321)
Summary:

Thanks CGE for gift of his latest work [Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
30 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 143: 346
Summary:

Will do what he can to help JC-B with his work on expression of patients suffering from general paralysis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9194

From:
Henry Hoyle Howorth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 278
Summary:

Thanks CD for subsidence references in response to HHH’s Nature paper ["The distribution of volcanoes", 9 (1874): 141–2].

Hopes to refer to CD’s having previously suggested the corresponding elevation of continents and sinking of the larger oceans in his next letter to Nature [9 (1874): 201–2]. Occurrence of volcanoes at boundary between rising and sinking lands reconciles his views with CD’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE348

From:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
To:
Martha Somerville
Date:
22 Dec 1873
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 316, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE349

From:
John Herschel jnr
To:
Martha Somerville
Date:
6 Dec 1873
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 317, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE444

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Miss Somerville
Date:
6 Dec 1873
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 149, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE489

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
3 Dec 1873
Source of text:
43, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE490

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
16 Dec 1873?
Source of text:
45, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

JHC1551

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
8 December 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.33, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1552

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
13 December 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.34-35, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC625

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 December 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 8, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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