From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[20 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Nicols 1885 , p. 52
Summary:
Responds to AN’s observations on sense of smell in cats and dogs.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
21 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 158
Summary:
Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
26 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 143: 156
Summary:
Thanks for Indian [Medical] Gazette. Comments on article.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
26 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350, Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Thanks RM for note on ocelli.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Willett
Date:
26 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD subscribes an additional £10.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Medical Times and Gazette
Date:
[before 29 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Medical Times and Gazette , 29 March 1873, p. 350
Summary:
Advertising a testimonial for James Murie.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
29 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 147: 406
Summary:
Reports that he has not received JSBS’s book on histology and physiology [Sanderson ed., Handbook for the physiological laboratory (1873)], which Edward Emmanuel Klein told CD’s son was to be sent. He asks for information so that he may thank Dr Klein. [Klein and Michael Foster were co-authors with JSBS.]
He has returned the Gazette to Dr T. L. Brunton. [See 8825.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Evans; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Lewes; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Cross
Date:
30 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
University of Redlands, Armacost Library
Summary:
Asks whether the Litchfields may call on her. "My wife complains that she has been very badly treated and that I ought to have asked permission for her to call on you with me when we next come to London: but I tell her that I still have some shreds of modesty."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
1 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D: 60–1)
Summary:
Comments on SB’s book [The fair haven (1873)]. CD is struck by SB’s dramatic power – thinks he could write "a really good novel". Surprised at strength of case SB makes that Jesus did not die on the cross. SB’s identity will soon be universally known: Leslie Stephen knows he is the author.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
Date:
2 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 139.12: 11
Summary:
The impossibility of conceiving that the universe arose through chance is the chief argument for the existence of God, but CD has never been able to decide whether this is an argument of real value. Safest to believe that the subject is beyond man’s intellect, "but man can do his duty".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 3 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 3 April 1873, pp. 417–18
Summary:
Comments on article ["Perception and instinct in lower animals", Nature 7 (1871): 377–8].
Explains his contention that "many of the most wonderful instincts have been acquired, independently of habit, through the preservation of useful variations of pre-existing instincts". Cites examples: sterile workers of several species of social insects have acquired different instincts; movements of tumbler pigeons. Speculates that "many instincts have originated from modification or variations in the brain".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 3 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 10 April 1873, pp. 443–4
Summary:
"The following fact with respect to the habits of ants, which I believe to be quite new, has been sent to me by a distinguished geologist, Mr J. D. Hague [see 8788]; and it appears well worth publishing."
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[3 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 10
Summary:
Anxious to have GHD come home because of his poor health. Recommends Huxley’s physician (Andrew Clark) – an advocate of milk diet.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Duncan Hague
Date:
3 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 394
Summary:
Has sent JDH’s letter to Nature ["Perception in ants", Nature 7 (1873): 443–4].
Sons recall kindness received from JDH and others in America.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Date:
3 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 309)
Summary:
Thanks for present of
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 261–2
Summary:
Wants to discuss raising a testimonial fund for Huxley and whether Huxley would stand this.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Davidson
Date:
7 Apr 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.426)
Summary:
Thanks TD for catalogue of his Cretacean fossils.
Regrets he cannot visit Brighton.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Spottiswoode
Date:
[8 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 169–70
Summary:
Discusses the arrangements being made to present a gift to Huxley [see 8872].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 13 (EH 88205951)
Summary:
CD will write to William Spottiswoode about the fund for Huxley. CD is raising his subscription to £300. "We have done a good day’s work … [it] gives me a higher opinion of human nature than I had before, though I am not one of those who think lowly of mankind."
Contributor:
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