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From:
Charles Loring Brace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Aug? 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 273 (fragile letters)
Summary:

Reports that the ability to move ears is common among the Sioux.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Aug–Sept? 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 87–9
Summary:

Notes criticising Max Müller’s views on language and Darwinism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 128
Summary:

Sends extracts, from his forthcoming book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)], about the secretion by plants of honey to attract the protection of ants. Invites CD’s comments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
2 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859 Charles, Darwin, Bl. 106–107)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot receive JVC at Down on Monday as he would then be too unwell to travel on Tuesday, when he must leave for a visit [to Abinger Hall, according to the Journal].

Has been working hard on Drosera and Dionaea. His next book will be on these plants and not, as he had intended, "On evil effects of Inter breeding".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 11
Summary:

Thinks highly of GHD’s article [probably "On beneficial restrictions to liberty of marriage", Contemp. Rev. 22 (1873): 412–26]. A good omen for the future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 159
Summary:

Returned last night. Huxley, left at Baden Baden, remarkably well.

Would like to come to Down with Strachey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[4 August 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.18
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 268–9
Summary:

Starts tomorrow for visit to Farrer and Effie [Euphemia Farrer, daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood]. Has not done such a feat [i.e., staying as a guest of someone outside the immediate family?] for 25 years.

Has been half killing himself with Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
5 August 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1629
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Monteagle, Lord
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
5 August 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1740
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[6 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 581
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
6 August 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.29-31, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
[7 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 78
Summary:

Discusses utility of plant secretions to ants.

Will read TB’s book when published [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Oliver Willyams Haweis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 120
Summary:

On inheritance of gesture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 119
Summary:

Sends paper to be published in Sydney Mail on primitive man.

Sends lists of earth [castings] made by worms [see Earthworms, p. 127],

and a catalogue of Australian Lepidoptera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 August 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 2, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

JDH informs Asa Gray that he has returned from a trip to the Auvergne, Cantal, Mont Dore & Ardeche country taken with [Thomas Henry] Huxley, who is now at Baden Baden, Switzerland. Mentions professor Cresson[?] is working under Sir W. Thomson & has sent JDH Aster seeds. [Daniel] Oliver is in Jersey. [George] Bentham is working on Mimosaceae for FLORA BRAZILIENSIS. JDH shook off a minor attack of bronchitis whilst on tour in the Eifel with [John] Lubbock & [Mountstuart Elphinstone] Grant-Duff. Thanks Gray for his congratulations on JDH gaining the Presidency of the Royal Society though admits he feels 'oppressed' with the prospects. Mentions Gray getting [William Starling] Sullivant's collection of mosses, RBG Kew has received Hunt's mosses as a gift. JDH expresses low opinion of [William] Carruthers & his conduct in answer to a bill in chancery. Reports on the current whereabouts of his family: Frances, Brian & Reginald at Eastbourne, William with JDH at Kew & Harriet in Gloucestershire. JDH describes & highly compliments a botany course designed by Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer to be run at the school in South Kensington. Thanks Gray for putting a notice of [his wife France Hooker's English translation of] Decaisne & Le Maout's work [TRAITÉ GÉNÉRAL DE BOTANIQUE DESCRIPTIVE ET ANALYTIQUE] in Silliman's Journal [AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE]. JDH cannot recall where he got notice of Sarracenia rubra, alias purpurea. [John Gilbert] Baker has sent all the notes of [Auguste Boniface] Ghiesbreght. JDH has sent Gray Ferns by 'young Ross'. JDH intends to make a cold fernery & asks Gray for roots. Comments on the release of further 'Survey Botanical Reports' & Sullivant's supplements. Notes that the South Kensington Museum is to be put under the British Museum trustees, a symptom of Gladstone's 'mad' government, under which he expects RBG Kew has had 'a lucky escape'.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frank Chance
Date:
10 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 139
Summary:

Thanks [FC] for his letter concerning a pony changing colour during the winter,

and remarks on the erection of human body hair, goose-skin, and the influence of colour and temperature on skin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/20)
Summary:

Asks THF to examine old flowers of Coronilla for holes bored by bees.

Is investigating whether drops of water injure leaves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
11 August 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 108-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
11 August 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 104-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project