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DCP-LETT-9166

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.

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DCP-LETT-9168

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:
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DCP-LETT-9170

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:
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DCP-LETT-9171

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:
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DCP-LETT-9173

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:
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DCP-LETT-9178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jonathan Peel
Date:
10 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 241
Summary:

Obliged for letter about horns of sheep.

Mentions case of death from objects impacted in appendix.

Is aware of his error about snipe breeding.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
10 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:

The case of the bees interests CD. He does not doubt that because of the size of their jaws humble-bees will be found all over the world to be the biters and hive-bees to profit from their work.

Thinks he has heard of land shells descending in the manner described by RS.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13772G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
11 Dec [1873-5]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/2)
Summary:

Requests hydrated magnesia.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9179

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Date:
17 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/3) Trustees of the Army Medical Service Museum
Summary:

Thanks FdeC for his note and invites criticisms.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9180

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Lee
Date:
17 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (John Edward Lee letterbook, #4700 bd ms 3+)
Summary:

Formal note enclosing five guineas for William Pengelly testimonial fund.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
17 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 159–60
Summary:

Suggests that his Coral reefs be republished.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down School Board
Date:
19 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/4)
Summary:

Expresses his opinion that the Board should allow the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evenings by the villagers of Down.

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DCP-LETT-9184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau
Date:
19 Dec 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.433)
Summary:

Discusses speech of parrots and starling. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 85 n.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 308–9
Summary:

His indignation at the malignant, odious, hypocrite Owen’s attack on JDH. History of Secretaryship [of Royal Society in Nature 9 (1873): 129–30] was best answer to Owen.

Is hard at work on new edition of Descent – a truly awful job.

No use going on with experiments on effects of water on bloom-divested leaves. May have erred. Or it may be that water is only injurious when there is a good supply of actinic rays. Will wait until spring.

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DCP-LETT-9186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
Date:
20 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for copy of translation of Variation

and the "admirable work on the microscopical structure of rock" [C. G. Ehrenberg, Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9189

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 3–4)
Summary:

Concerning secretion of "bloom";

movements of Robinia.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
30 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 143: 346
Summary:

Will do what he can to help JC-B with his work on expression of patients suffering from general paralysis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Date:
30 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Nachlass Ehrenburg, Nr. 321)
Summary:

Thanks CGE for gift of his latest work [Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)].

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