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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
December 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 72
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 December 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 68
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
-12-1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Thiselton-Dyer that his wife, Frances Hooker, is unwell & so JDH will not be coming to work [in the RBG Kew herbarium] for a few days. He asks Thiselton-Dyer to consult Mrs Hooker's letters to determine what needs doing, & to continue work on the FLORA INDICA. If he completes the Dipterocarpeae Thiselton-Dyer should put the Impatiens in order for description. JDH has written to Daniel Oliver [Keeper of the herbarium] to ask him to put miscellaneous dried collections in order by genera. JDH will need to come to work to do the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, when will depend on his wife's health.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 182
Summary:

CD’s finding the nervous system of Dionaea is wonderful.

Coiling of tendrils of climbing plants.

Thanks CD for the new book [Expression].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 23
Summary:

Discusses works lent him by CD: Candolle, Kerner, Braun, Sachs, and CD’s own notes on relative positions of leaves. Plans paper on subject for Royal Society.

Just appointed medical inspector under local government board.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
From:
Frédéric Baudry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 95, 95/1
Summary:

Sends anecdotes relating to Expression;

criticises CD’s use of Hensleigh Wedgwood’s views on language.

Complains about J. J. Moulinié’s translation of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Walmisley Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 21–2
Summary:

Sends CD description of preparation of extract of belladonna.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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From:
Fidelis Alois Nussbaumer; Rudolf Hoernes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 96
Summary:

Thanks for copies of CD’s works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Date:
4 December 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.78, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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
From:
John Topham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Expression 2d ed., p. 355 n. 38
Summary:

Suggests that Shakespeare meant the blush was unseen, not absent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 433
Summary:

First edition of Expression nearly exhausted. Asks CD to send corrections to the printer for another issue, Murray thinks, of 2000.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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