From:
Godfrey Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 52
Summary:
Captive and tame birds inheriting the migratory instinct.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 178–80, DAR 209.12: 3
Summary:
Sends leaves and names by post.
Is writing everywhere for Drosophyllum.
Is deeply interested in Desmodium.
Had no intention of publishing on Nepenthes, the experiments were solely for CD’s "eating". Will continue with egg and raw meat experiments. Asks for advice on how to prove fluid is secreted by the glands.
Searles Wood’s letter is confused and would deny atavism if his principles were accepted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 1 Nov 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 115
Summary:
Describes the behaviour of a pet donkey and pig.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 121
Summary:
Many insects visit Eucalyptus flowers as long as there is pollen to be seen. Asking his colleague, George Masters, to gather insects and flowers at Long Bay for CD.
Observations on wild New Guinea pig in captivity.
Will take CD’s advice to write a book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down School Board
Date:
[after 29 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2)
Summary:
CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project