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DCP-LETT-8838

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8853

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."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8839

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-73-04-03

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Guilfoyle
Date:
3 April 1873
Source of text:
RB MSS 439c, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8840

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8839F

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4663

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 April 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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