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DCP-LETT-8755

From:
William Marriott Canby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 25
Summary:

At Asa Gray’s request, responds to CD’s questions about WMC’s observations on Dionaea and particularly about the size of the insects captured and the excitability of the leaves after an insect is captured.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8754

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 102–103)
Summary:

Has no corrections for second German edition [of Expression]. Plans to bring out an improved edition in a year or two.

Thanks for reference JVC sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8751F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Chapman
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Western University Archives, History of Medicine Collection, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (A04-011-051)
Summary:

Thanks for Chapman 1873 (Chapman, John. 1873. Neuralgia and kindred diseases of the nervous system).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3424

From:
Edward William Cox
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
February 1873
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 81
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8756

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 217
Summary:

He does not accept Wallace’s definition of instinct because it excludes "inherited experience", i.e., "knowledge acquired by and transmitted through ancestors".

House-flies do not seem to have an instinctive fear of trap-door spiders.

Miss Forster gives him news of CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7260

From:
Sophia E. De Morgan
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1873]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.441
Summary:

Will send a large number of the remaining letters next week. Would be grateful if she would put them in order. The Budget of Paradoxes [of Augustus De Morgan] has been pleasant but difficult work owing to the printers' strike.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-73-02-01

From:
the Sociedad Rural Argentina
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 February 1873
Source of text:
RB MSS M200b.20, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

WCP3627

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
2 February 1873
Source of text:
Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers (auction)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8757F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
3 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Cambridge University Archives (GEOL 9/*1 2b)
Summary:

A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-73-02-03

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Edwards
Date:
3 February 1873
Source of text:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Agassiz Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8757

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Date:
3 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/474/2); Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
Summary:

Thanks for J. D. MacDonald’s paper ["Distribution of invertebrata", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 218–23].

CD feels lines of genetic connection between animals offer a most difficult problem; Ernst Haeckel may have done mischief by facing the difficulty.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8758

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
4 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.411)
Summary:

Is glad JEG has made out what the guemul is ["On the Guémul", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 10 (1872): 445–6; 11 (1873): 214–20, 308–10].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1548

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
4 February 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.28, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1207

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
4 February 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.204-206, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-8201A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Enrico Hillyer Giglioli
Date:
6 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Andrusier Autographs (dealer) (22 November 2013)
Summary:

Thanks his Italian colleague for articles on the skull of a chimpanzee.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8759

From:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 30
Summary:

Cannot find a publisher for Italian translation of Expression. Gives up the project.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8760

From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 62
Summary:

Would like a museum set up illustrating origins, varieties, and uses of domestic animals; seeks CD’s approval of the idea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5490

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 February [1873]
Source of text:
Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution: MSS 001486 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8761

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 328
Summary:

Forwards Matthew Arnold’s Literature and dogma [1873].

Hopes they can secure Hooker for President of Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1474

From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[8 February 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1729
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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