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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
December 1873
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 110
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
1 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/17a)
Summary:
Suggests a reference to Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1 Dec 1873, p. 497, when THF takes up Coronilla.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 December 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 132
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
1 December 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 130-1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
John Hampden
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
1 December 1873
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP13/1/16
Summary:
Letter from John Hampden to the Secretary of the Zoological Society of London accusing ARW of being a cheat and a swindler.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 337
Summary:
Offers to experiment on the digestibility of chondrin and chlorophyll by Dionaea for CD.
Has noticed that painters depicting complex expressions give different expressions to the two sides of the face.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[2 December 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1633
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Dec] 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 249
Summary:
Discusses variation and selection in Harz canaries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Dec 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Is interested in comparative nutritive values of chondrin and gelatin. The former seems to excite Drosera more, though albumen does so to a higher degree than either. Also asks if chlorophyll is digested by animals; Drosera digests it hardly at all.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 330; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 252)
Summary:
A letter from Anton Dohrn declines the proposed fund [that THH and others suggested be raised in England for marine biological station at Naples].
Hooker’s inaugural as President of Royal Society a success.
R. Owen distinguished himself in his way.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
3 Dec 1873
Source of text:
43, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther
Date:
3 December 1873
Source of text:
Moser Library, Shrewsbury School: Darwinia, Wallace & Huxley letters no. 36
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H.E.
Date:
[4 December 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 109
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Fordman
Date:
4 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
Massachusetts Historical Society (Grenville H. Norcross Autograph Collection)
Summary:
Thanks RF for his kind note; cannot quite believe or disbelieve stories of children raised by wolves.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jonathan Peel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 132–3
Summary:
On the vermiform appendix,
snipes breeding in England,
and the horns of crossbred sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 1–2)
Summary:
Wishes to identify a species of Cassia whose movements interest him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
5 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 305)
Summary:
Sorry to hear of Dohrn’s troubles. Has written to prospective donors saying that nothing can be done because of attitude of Dohrn’s father.
New [2d] edition of Descent is an awful job.
Diet no longer doing much for his health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Miss Somerville
Date:
6 Dec 1873
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 149, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John Herschel jnr
To:
Martha Somerville
Date:
6 Dec 1873
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 317, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 178: 92
Summary:
Movement in plants.
Information on species of Cassia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project