From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 141
Summary:
On cats’ habit of leaving the room or house in which a corpse is lying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Aug 1872]
Source of text:
CUL, DAR Pamphlet Collection G779
Summary:
Discusses the research for his paper on Arctic plant beds in the freshwater aquifers of Scania (Nathorst 1872).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[2] [September] [1872]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 245-246
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 278-279]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
2 Sept 1872
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/27)
Summary:
Comments on EH’s criticism of authors in third edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1872].
Discusses book by H. C. Bastian [The beginnings of life (1872)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 120
Summary:
Kew’s Drosera capensis is at CD’s service.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[2 Sept 1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
Huxley’s report of Bastian’s having watched the development of the scale of Sphagnum. The importance of studies of possible causes of heterogenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 170
Summary:
Arranges to visit CD at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 420
Summary:
R. Cooke has increased the order for heliotypes [for Expression] to 8000. Reimburses CD for cost of artists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
N. Sobko
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 215
Summary:
Asks whether he may have the sheets of Expression to produce a Russian edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
4 Sept [1872?]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:
Orders some salts for plant experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernest Edwards
Date:
4 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 96: 148–9
Summary:
Testimonial letter stating how valuable CD found their advice and information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 92
Summary:
Studying palaeontology, as the British Museum is closed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
6 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Recommends J. C. Houzeau’s Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux [1872].
Was glad to make CW’s acquaintance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 62
Summary:
Sends extract [from Carl Johan Andersson, Lake Ngami (1856)] on expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 171
Summary:
Discusses the mental powers and habits of animals and considers that those of man are not separated from those of animals by any sort of fundamental barrier; the gulf seems formidable only from a self-conscious, human point of view. Man’s important distinction is his greater ability to act and respond independently of external stimuli, in consequence of his internal accumulation of personal experience.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 169: 93
Summary:
Alexander [Kovalevsky] is intent on assisting Russian publication of Expression. Sends estimates of costs and profits. At 7s 6d per copy a net profit of £150–200 is expected.
Wilhelm Wundt [Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] probably of no use.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
12 Sept 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Darwin Misc. Letters 9)
Summary:
Instructions for forwarding a parcel and outstanding issues of Transactions due him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 63
Summary:
Beginning work on his African travels [The African sketch-book (1873)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Leslie Sutherland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 320
Summary:
Sends CD a book on mule breeding in Poitou [Eugène Ayrault, De l’industrie mulassière en Poitou (1867)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
[after 12] Sept 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Darwin Misc. Letters 8)
Summary:
Note authorising James West to collect Transactions on CD’s behalf.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Kovalevsky, V. O.5
- Reinwald, C.-F.3
- Wright, Chauncey3
- Airy, Hubert2
- Baxter, W. W.2
- Linnean Society2
- Reade, W. W.2
- Carus, J. V.1
- Cooper, William1
- Edwards, Ernest1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Head, H. A.1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Lacaze-Duthiers, Henri de1
- Moulinié, J. J.1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Nathorst, A. G.1
- Scott, John1
- Sobko, N.1
- Sutherland, C. L.1
- Unidentified1
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Wheatley, H. B.1