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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:
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:
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
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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:
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:
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
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 27
Summary:
Illustrates, with reference to different species of Gasteria, the role of twisting in the development of leaf arrangement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Strachey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C56–7
Summary:
Sends observations from a friend in India confirming CD’s view that bees cut the tubes of flowers to extract [nectar] in order to save time.
Also observations on snails descending from trees on threads suspended from their tails.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 251
Summary:
Thanks CD for book.
Mentions controversy involving Haeckel.
Describes his lectures on Darwinism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[18 December 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 562a
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Langdon Haydon Down
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 87: 63–4
Summary:
Describes features of an ear of a microcephalous idiot, one of which contradicts Carl Vogt’s views [Mémoire sur les microcéphales (1867)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[20 December 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 586
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Langdon Haydon Down
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 87: 61–2
Summary:
Describes an ear from a microcephalous idiot, which does not lend support to Ludwig Mayer’s view [that points on ears are mere variations; see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 15–16].
Is working on involution rather than evolution, with results confirming CD’s teaching.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[21 December 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1275
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters