From:
William Honnywill Hall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 123
Summary:
Asks CD about the origin of certain expressions in man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Frederick Collier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 211
Summary:
Opposes all corporal punishment. Pleased CD agrees with his pamphlet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 82
Summary:
Insists that suckling babies pound and scratch mothers’ breasts. Perhaps CD’s evidence to the contrary comes from ladies, who only expose small portion of bosom, as opposed to working-class women.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
F. B Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 183–4
Summary:
Various observations on sexual selection portion of Descent – ostriches, rosy-billed duck, egrets, rails, etc.
Contributor:
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From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 173
Summary:
Thanks CD for one of his books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
10 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 379
Summary:
Much obliged for seeds. Will expose seeds to chemical vapours.
Comments on JTM’s spider experiments.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (106)
Summary:
Astonished by Agassiz’s argument; has sent AG’s memorandum to Nature [see 8786].
Is working on cross- and self-fertilising plants and has temporarily stopped work on Drosera.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jan Constantijn Costerus; Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
Date:
[22?] Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 139.12: 11
Summary:
Thanks them for their kind letter and interest in his work. Sends photograph.
Contributor:
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From:
Gotthold Heinrich Otto (Otto) Caspari
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 117
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of his book [Die Urgeschichte der Menschheit, 2 vols. (1873)].
In Germany CD’s views have achieved great recognition among naturalists, but in other disciplines there is great controversy. OC’s book seeks to resolve the controversy by showing how state, morals, religion, and church have developed from natural beginnings.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 13 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 13 March 1873, p. 360
Summary:
Recounts instances suggesting that animals have a sense of direction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Murray Humphry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 14] Mar 1873
Source of text:
CUL Cambridge University Registry guard books: Sedgwick Memorial Museum 1873–1924 CUR 110: 1
Summary:
A circular advertising a meeting at the Senate House, Cambridge, on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Professor Adam Sedgwick.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:
13 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS.Add. 7652/III I.11)
Summary:
Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Murray Humphry
Date:
14 Mar 1873
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2016)
Summary:
Sorry that his health prevents him attending a meeting to honour Adam Sedgwick.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 139
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
Contributor:
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From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 26
Summary:
Thanks for congratulations on appearance of abstract of HA’s paper [Nature 7 (1873): 343–4].
Explains again his theory of "contraction with twist" by which compact buds and a spiral phyllotaxy have evolved. Explains how the peculiar phyllotaxy of the teasel is explicable by this process of "condensation".
Contributor:
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From:
William Pengelly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1873
Source of text:
Pengelly ed. 1897 , pp. 229–30
Summary:
CD’s notice in Nature [Collected papers 2: 171–2] induces WP to send letters from correspondents recounting stories of a dog that learned to open a door and of another that found his way home from London to Cowes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
18 Mar [1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 168
Summary:
CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.
Contributor:
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From:
Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 200
Summary:
Two students express their gratitude and admiration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
19 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 352
Summary:
Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.
Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Pengelly
Date:
19 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Documenting History (dealers) (1995)
Summary:
Thanks WP for his accounts of sagacity of dogs. "I can believe almost anything about them."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project