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DCP-LETT-10581F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles John Plumptre
Date:
19 Aug [1873?]
Source of text:
Plumptre 1876, pp. 224–5
Summary:

Agrees François Delsarte’s view [that the eyes do not show emotion, only indicate the object of it], is probably wrong.

Contributor:
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FL-0742

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[20 August 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 103
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1487

From:
Wedgwood, Rose
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
20 August 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1983
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9018

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 160–1
Summary:

He and Strachey will arrive on Saturday.

Is aghast at thought of being questioned on injury to plants by watering. Fears he will be considered an ignorant Director of Kew.

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DCP-LETT-9019

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
21 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/322)
Summary:

Thanks for copy of HS’s Descriptive sociology [1873].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9020

From:
William Gregory Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 181: 4
Summary:

African elephants cry when distressed.

Contributor:
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FL-1023

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[22 August 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9022

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 106
Summary:

Experiments with Mimosa.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9023

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 198/3, 199
Summary:

Thanks CD for a copy of Expression. Is always interested in CD’s work, but finds himself diverging from some of his leading ideas.

P.S. Has found shedding of toenails in a nephew as well.

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DCP-LETT-9021

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 166
Summary:

Will arrive at Orpington by usual train.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9024

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 222
Summary:

He has added carbolic acid to the seed germination experiments and sends more results on the effect of formic acid. Formic acid inhibits mildew on dough but not on seeds.

Mildew never grows in ants’ nests.

Sends an account, from the Mishnah, of grain stored by ants.

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FL-0743

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[24 August 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9016

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 142–3
Summary:

Regrets that "our brush theory" is wrong.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9025

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 107
Summary:

Experiments on Mimosa; effects of immersion.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9027

From:
Theodor Gomperz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 61
Summary:

Comments on Expression. Suggests solutions to some of CD’s unresolved problems. Widens the "Principle of Association", whereby gestures associated with one emotion can also come to accompany a second emotion. Confirms the occurrence of blushing in the dark. Considers CD’s use of the "principle of Conservation of Force"; outlines its larger applications.

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DCP-LETT-9028

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 302
Summary:

Fritz Müller is now working on the Brazilian honey-bees (Melipona and Trigona).

HM thanks CD for fertilisation references.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9026

From:
Richard Strachey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 264
Summary:

Reports that grapes are spoiled by rain at vintage time and that damaged grapes, whose "bloom" is not intact, are particularly susceptible.

Contributor:
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FL-1027

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[26 August 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-1085

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Elizabeth
Date:
26 August [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9029

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
27 Aug 1873
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.6103 ff.101)
Summary:

CD can provide leaves of Dionaea if JSBS wishes to investigate electric currents in them.

His experiments show that the digestive action of Drosera seems like that of true digestion.

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