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DCP-LETT-8592

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
2 [Dec 1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks about possible animal substances in samples of Belladonna and Digitalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8049F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 [Dec 1872]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence vol. 156, Indian Letters, Calcutta Botanic Garden II 1860–1900, f. 1086)
Summary:

JDH Should do as he sees fit about proposing him [John Scott] [for fellowship of the Linnean Society].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8658

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alpheus Hyatt
Date:
4 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007)
Summary:

If decapod does not pass through zoea stage, is this acceleration? If hypothetical adult retained zoea characters, would this be retardation? Believes obliteration of growth stages frequently due to natural selection. Most interesting points in AH’s letter deal with senile characters. CD attributes them to laws of growth not selection. Explains degraded characters as result of readaptation to simpler conditions. Believes no innate tendency to progressive development exists.

Hopes AH visits F. Hilgendorf’s famous deposit [at Steinheim]. A. Weismann [Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)] makes good use of Hilgendorf’s observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8659F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[after 4 Dec 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 70
Summary:

Thanks for information about the Atropia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8660F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Obliged for the note of reference, but does not know what to think of the statement about the watering mouth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8660H

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (3 November 2011)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of a book, and offers to send copy of Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8662

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick James Furnivall
Date:
6 Dec [1872-3]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FU 257)
Summary:

Formally declines the vice-presidency of a proposed society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8663

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
7 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 289
Summary:

Comments on additional printing of Expression. Complains about poor quality of plates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8664

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Johnson Maynard
Date:
7 Dec [1872-3]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:

CD sends a better photo for CJM.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8665F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Galerie Frédéric Castaing (dealer) (November 2013)
Summary:

Thanks an unidentifiable natural history society for electing him an honorary member.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8668

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Date:
10 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Harcourt Amory collection of Lewis Carroll MS Eng 718.12: 2)
Summary:

Thanks for offer of photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8669F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Topham
Date:
10 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (14 November 2014)
Summary:

Thanks JT for his information and hopes to attend to it in any future edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8672

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
11 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks AdeC for great pleasure his new book [Histoire des sciences (1873)] has given him. Comments on several of the essays.

When AdeC backs up Asa Gray in saying all instincts are congenital habits, CD must protest.

Asks several questions about butterflies of the Alps discussed on p. 322 [of Histoire].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8673

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Félix Joseph Henri (Henri) de Lacaze-Duthiers
Date:
11 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Archives de l’Académie des sciences, Paris (27 J Fonds Lacaze-Duthiers)
Summary:

Thanks HdeL-D for his photograph and encloses one of himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8674

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
12 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 90–91)
Summary:

Has not strength nor time to alter and improve Variation.

First English edition of Expression now at 9000 copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4646

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 December [1872?]
Source of text:
Dittrick Medical History Center of Case Western Reserve University
Summary:

Darwin will be in London for a week and invites ARW to lunch.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8680A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Date:
14 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
A Dodgson family member (private collection)
Summary:

His thanks for the excellent photograph. [See 8668.]

He is no longer working on expression but appreciates the obliging offer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alpheus Hyatt
Date:
14 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007)
Summary:

Sends copy of last edition of Origin.

Respecting AH’s theory that acceleration of growth produces new characters, urges AH to examine decapods that do and do not pass through zoea stage. Believes there are no marked differences between them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 Dec [1872?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Will be in London for a week. Invites ARW to lunch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8682

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[17] Dec [1872]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 308)
Summary:

Plans to see THH in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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