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FVM-72-12-08

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 December 1872
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8665

From:
Alpheus Hyatt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 145: 365
Summary:

Discusses his theory of acceleration and retardation of development.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8667

From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1872
Source of text:
G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, pp. 120–1
Summary:

Thanks for Expression.

Has lost a year’s work in the fire that has devastated Boston.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8666

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B124–5
Summary:

Charles Landseer would like to know whether dogs have orbicular muscles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8667F

From:
Arthur Joseph Munby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Expression 2d ed., pp. 306–7 n. 21
Summary:

Gives a graphic description of a woman being terrified by mistaking him for a ghost in an old house.

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-8670

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 88
Summary:

Asks whether CD has any changes to make in a new German edition of Variation, which is to be published next year.

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-8669

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 34, 59
Summary:

Thanks CD for Expression.

Describes work on Die Kalkschwämme and its principal conclusions.

The application of biogenetic law.

Notes variability among calcareous sponges.

Gastrula-like "Gastraea" as ancestor of multicellular animals.

Posits homology between Hydra, Olynthus of calcareous sponges, and initial germ layers of higher animals.

Comments on Lubbock’s Prehistoric times [1865]

and on David Strauss’s Der alte und der neue Glaube [1872].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000891

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
10 December 1872
Source of text:
MM/14/161, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

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
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WCP5491

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Forsell Kirby
Date:
10 December 1872
Source of text:
Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution: MSS 001638 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace 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-8671

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B84–5
Summary:

Thinks Mr Salt has not understood about their wills and wants to clarify the matter when he has heard from CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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

RS-MM-000892

From:
August Dupre
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
12 December 1872
Source of text:
MM/14/162, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-8675

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B86–7
Summary:

Hopes to have a visit to discuss proportions to be left to the children under their wills; thinks 5/6 to the boys, 1/6 to the girls who "will have as much as is good for them".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8676

From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 23–4
Summary:

Drosera filiformis captures only small insects [but see 8989].

Writes of her experiments with butterflies.

CD’s theory steadily gains ground in the U. S., despite Agassiz.

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
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