From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 141
Summary:
On cats’ habit of leaving the room or house in which a corpse is lying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Aug 1872]
Source of text:
CUL, DAR Pamphlet Collection G779
Summary:
Discusses the research for his paper on Arctic plant beds in the freshwater aquifers of Scania (Nathorst 1872).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 120
Summary:
Kew’s Drosera capensis is at CD’s service.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 170
Summary:
Arranges to visit CD at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 420
Summary:
R. Cooke has increased the order for heliotypes [for Expression] to 8000. Reimburses CD for cost of artists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
N. Sobko
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 215
Summary:
Asks whether he may have the sheets of Expression to produce a Russian edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 92
Summary:
Studying palaeontology, as the British Museum is closed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 62
Summary:
Sends extract [from Carl Johan Andersson, Lake Ngami (1856)] on expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 171
Summary:
Discusses the mental powers and habits of animals and considers that those of man are not separated from those of animals by any sort of fundamental barrier; the gulf seems formidable only from a self-conscious, human point of view. Man’s important distinction is his greater ability to act and respond independently of external stimuli, in consequence of his internal accumulation of personal experience.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 169: 93
Summary:
Alexander [Kovalevsky] is intent on assisting Russian publication of Expression. Sends estimates of costs and profits. At 7s 6d per copy a net profit of £150–200 is expected.
Wilhelm Wundt [Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] probably of no use.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 63
Summary:
Beginning work on his African travels [The African sketch-book (1873)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Leslie Sutherland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 320
Summary:
Sends CD a book on mule breeding in Poitou [Eugène Ayrault, De l’industrie mulassière en Poitou (1867)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 94
Summary:
J. J. Moulinié is ill in Geneva, but translations of Origin and Descent progress.
Will undertake to publish translation of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 95
Summary:
J. J. Moulinié’s mental faculties are much weakened.
Fortunately Descent and Origin are completely translated except the indexes.
A new translator will be needed for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry A. Head
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 126
Summary:
Impressions of Duluth and the natural history of its environs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 21
Summary:
Disputes Thomas Meehan’s observations on the hardiness of exposed buds, and believes bud-scales are for the protection of the bud-leaves. Reiterates his opinion that the phyllotaxy of a plant is determined by causes acting when the leaves are crowded into close contact. Attempts to explain how a different phyllotaxy on the upper and lower parts of the same shoot could have arisen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 67
Summary:
His visit to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Cooper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 223
Summary:
Requests financial support for horticultural researches, which, he promises, will enormously increase yields.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 22
Summary:
Thanks for letter, in which CD cited [Anton] Kerner’s alpine observations.
Describes with diagrams the curious disposition of leaves on some Acacia twigs, and points out that his theory should account for these anomalies as well as normal cases.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 121
Summary:
Acting as Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Observations on worm-castings in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project