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DCP-LETT-9175

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
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JHC1551

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
8 December 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.33, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9176

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
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1552

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
13 December 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.34-35, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC625

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 December 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 8, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

SOMERVILLE490

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
16 Dec 1873?
Source of text:
45, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9182

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

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1299

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[18 December 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 562a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9191

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
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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1312

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[20 December 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 586
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9188

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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