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
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, R. B.
Date:
[4 September 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 99
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernest Edwards
Date:
4 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 96: 148–9
Summary:
Testimonial letter stating how valuable CD found their advice and information.
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