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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Henry Archer
Date:
October 1873
Source of text:
W. M. Bale papers, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 157–8
Summary:

Has heard that Mr Allen wishes to let his house and thinks it probable that it would suit his son [Francis]. Asks whether he may have refusal of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-7)
Summary:

Hears from Frank [Darwin] that Drosera behaves perversely. Suggests that motor influence may move longitudinally away from the excited glands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 29
Summary:

Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Heinrich (Karl) Marx
Date:
1 Oct 1873
Source of text:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers D. 1013)
Summary:

Thanks KM for gift of his "great work on Capital" [2d German ed. of Das Kapital]. Wishes he understood more of "the deep & important subject of political Economy".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel William Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 40
Summary:

Information for CD’s use in investigating digestion by Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Emma Wuttke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 181: 189
Summary:

Sends tracing of ancient Egyptian illustration of dogs and cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 28
Summary:

Sends CD a draft of a letter to Nature [see 9087], which he thinks expresses CD’s meaning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[3 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 583
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 12
Summary:

CD thinks GHD’s letter is an excellent clarification [of CD’s conjectural view on the elimination of useless parts in species], but does not want to publish it as his [CD’s] own. Asks GHD to think carefully before he publishes it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Samuel William Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 41–2
Summary:

Sends formula for pure pepsin for experiments on digestion of Drosera, and information on legumin. Will send chlorophyll soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
4 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 16 October 1873, p. 505
Summary:

Sends, with CD’s approval, a clarification of CD’s explanation of how useless organs might diminish [see 9061]. Using Quetelet’s law of normal distribution GHD shows how horns of cattle, having become useless, would gradually diminish and finally disappear.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
4 October 1873
Source of text:
McGill University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 30
Summary:

Has decided to send the letter ["Variation of organs", Nature 8 (1873): 505].

Writes of his poor health and problems of settling in at Trinity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 169–70
Summary:

Mimosa prostrata, described by John Lindley as M. marginata, native of Brazil.

Who supplies CD with distilled water and chemicals?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[7 October 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 561
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
7 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Requests a piece of the most sensitive litmus paper in order to test the secretions of minute hairs of plants which catch minute flies. [See 9098.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel William Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 43
Summary:

Thanks CD for copies of his books.

Sends chlorophyll extract [for CD’s work on Drosera digestion].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Bradshaw, Henry
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
8 October 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258: 448
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[8 October 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1407
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters