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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Virginius Dabney
Date:
3 Nov 1873
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 56 MSS 3082-a)
Summary:
Thanks VD for information on caterpillars selecting food plants from within one family,
and on similar behaviour in hogs, which will not eat any plants from a family containing some poisonous members.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
3 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112)
Summary:
CD is glad to hear of nature of JF’s work;
proposes that JF call when CD comes to London.
Has read JF’s attack on Agassiz ["Agassiz and Darwinism"] in Popular Science Monthly [3 (1873): 692–705].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 ff. 2–3 and 39a)
Summary:
Discusses experiments and observations on pitchers [of Nepenthes]. Suggests procedures for JDH to follow.
Any plant of any family with a terminal or with any lateral leaflets greatly reduced would be interesting to CD for studying spontaneous movements.
Has not received Eucalyptus or Acacia plants from Rollisson.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 329
Summary:
W. H. Flower is ill and obliged to go off for six months. Wants to return the money Flower contributed to fund for his holiday, asks the amount.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 122
Summary:
Letter of introduction for Mr Bradley, an expert on spiders.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Pennington Thomasson
Date:
3 Nov 1873
Source of text:
Hull University Archives (Thomasson family papers: U DX163/1)
Summary:
Thanks for the paragraph, which he had not seen and now returns.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 181
Summary:
Has time only to thank CD for the invaluable hints.
Encloses Lathyrus nissolia seeds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Nov 1873
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 303)
Summary:
Answers THH’s query about W. H. Flower; gives the amount he contributed to the gift. Advises against returning it, even anonymously. Hopes WHF’s health improves.
Contributor:
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From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 223
Summary:
Formic acid kills seeds but only rarely makes them dormant – as he presumes ants do. He finds great variation in the vigour of individual seeds. Harvester ants, used in place of formic acid, do not affect germination.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 f.5)
Summary:
Suggests experiment and observations to carry out on pitcher [of Nepenthes].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Nov 1873
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 f.4)
Summary:
Is coming to stay in London and wants to arrange a visit to Kew to talk with JDH, see the Eucalypti, and observe Mimosa albida.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Montagu Butler
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 1c
Summary:
Reports an incident of his "hereditary" habit of dozing, head in hand, such that he scratches his nose.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 184–5
Summary:
Has had a week’s cessation of Nepenthes work.
Had to get out a paper for the Linnean Society on Thursday.
Has tried Mimosa albida in hothouse and found it wonderfully sensitive.
A military report from India praises his travel book.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 304–5
Summary:
Returned from visit.
Thinks several species of Eucalyptus would be worth experimenting on. Sends list.Mimosa albida would be worth its weight in diamonds. Neptunia worth more than diamonds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Nov] 1873 or [26 Apr or 6 Dec] 1874
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 30)
Summary:
Arranges a visit to CL.
Contributor:
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