From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 or 20] Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 138–9
Summary:
The Drosophyllum goes to Orpington by train this evening.
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 17
Summary:
Thanks for Expression, which has made him wonder whether his shyness in public until the age of 55 resulted from fear of subjecting his face to ridicule.
Criticises F. Galton’s Hereditary genius [1869] for neglecting environmental influence.
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 181: 8
Summary:
Is not surprised CD dissents from his criticisms [of Expression?]. Holds to his own interpretation of the expression of astonishment.
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From:
August (Ernst) Meitzen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 115
Summary:
Sends his book [Bhawani (1872)], which is a poem in praise of evolutionary theory and showing its roots in ancient India.
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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 87: 56–8
Summary:
Describes a patient’s ears with peculiar tufts of hair in places where he has never seen them before. Encloses sketch.
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From:
Alois Humbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18] Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 89: 76
Summary:
On a humming-bird Sphinx moth which tried to extract nectar from flowers on wallpaper. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 317.]
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 148
Summary:
Hopes Drosophyllum was all right.
Opinion of Council of Royal Society [on Presidency] is twelve for JDH, five for Duke of Devonshire, and G. B. Airy for William Spottiswoode.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
[before 21 Jan 1873]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS. Add. 7656: RS899)
Summary:
Sends HA’s paper ["On leaf arrangement"] with a supporting note [from CD] to Royal Society.
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From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 25
Summary:
Has sent phyllotaxy paper to G. G. Stokes with the letter from CD to show credentials.
Will not have time to read new Sachs edition CD offered.
Thanks for CD’s sponsorship of paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1873): 176–9].
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 90
Summary:
On a correction JVC thinks should be made in Variation on vertebrae of ducks.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 8
Summary:
Concerned about GHD’s health. Sends a prescription for a cough mixture.
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 434
Summary:
Popular Edition [6th] of Origin has sold out 3000 copies. Asks CD whether he has found any errors that should be corrected.
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Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
24 [January] 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1631
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
25 January 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 24
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 212
Summary:
The Naples Zoological Station and its library are growing fast. His life is a constant battle with the municipality, but has managed to make a little progress on vertebrate ancestry and morphology. His views get further away from what is generally accepted.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 253–6
Summary:
Drosophyllum arrived; none of his observations turned out as he expected, but nevertheless he understands its habits better than he did. The secreting hairs that he observed may be explained as a mere chemical reaction.
Comments on various articles he has read.
Asks for Thiselton-Dyer’s notes.
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From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 Jan 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 53.1: B44–9
Summary:
Translation of some of his annotations in Dutch edition of Expression.
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
28 [January 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 572
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[28 January 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.15
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 91
Summary:
A new [German] edition of Expression is to be done. Has CD anything to add or alter?
JVC cites an article on cessation of breathing during mental concentration that supports Gratiolet as quoted in Expression, p. 179.
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