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JHC360

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
--[1872]
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.8, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Thiselton-Dyer regarding Norman Lockyer & Alexander MacMillan, respectively editor & Scottish publisher of NATURE; to which JDH has lent his name. Lockyer has not sent JDH a copy of William Carruthers' letter, JDH considers Carruthers' intellect muddled by a 'fear of extinction'. JDH is going to the funeral of an old friend, Archibald Smith of Jordanhill, in Kensal Green the following day. JDH invites Thiselton-Dyer to dine with him & his cousin Francis 'Frank' Palgrave.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

LINNEAN1647

From:
William Reed
To:
Unknown
Date:
[1872]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/19/69, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Photographic copy of John Opie's (1761-1807) 1798 portrait of Pleasance Smith.

[Note in pencil by Robert Kippist on reverse] received from Lady Smith 17 September 1872.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

DCP-LETT-13888

From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 146
Summary:

Extract from the History of the rise and progress of the Killerby, Studley and Warlaby herds of shorthorns by William Carr (1867).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8135F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1872 or later?]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8051)
Summary:

Queries about the pitch of children’s crying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4740

From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 January 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8139

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 94: 216–17
Summary:

Heartily glad about the news of the Ayrton affair development.

Huxley looks very unwell from too much miscellaneous work; CD wishes he could be made a Director General for transference of British Museum and for other scientific work, as JDH suggests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1087

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Elizabeth
Date:
2–3 January 1872
Source of text:
DAR 245: 7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-8140

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 30)
Summary:

Thanks for letter [8137]. Finds observation at Stonehenge of depth of mould at different parts of slope "most valuable".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8141

From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 18
Summary:

Further details and measurements of the stones in the courtyard pavement for CD’s investigation of earthworm action.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-M72-01-04

From:
Christoph Friedrich von Stälin
To:
Johann von Wächter
Date:
4 January 1872
Source of text:
E 56 Bü. 28, Hauptstaatsarchiv, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8141F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 49)
Summary:

Sends comments on his diagram of Stonehenge. Will go to Beaulieu.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-72-01-04

From:
David Boyle
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 January 1872
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.Published in Pretlove (2012), p. 83
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8143

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 197
Summary:

Sends his reply to Huxley’s criticisms [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 168–97].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8142

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
4 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 ff. 26–7)
Summary:

Was unaware that chapter headings [of Origin] had been printed off [in French edition (1873)]. Suggests that new part of chapter 7 be printed as appendix.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8145

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
5 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/17)
Summary:

Feels that StGJM’s review of Descent [Q. Rev. 131 (1871): 47–90] greatly misrepresents CD’s opinions and conclusions. Feels their differences of opinion are so great that discussion of almost any subject would be a waste of both their time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8146

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Date:
5 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Amy Nagashima (private collection)
Summary:

Praises MT’s observations and asks her to repeat experiments on the the relation of sexes of butterflies to the nutrition of the larvae.

Is glad she will publish her observations on Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8144

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
5 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 331)
Summary:

Asks her to probe worm-holes on grassy slopes with a knitting needle to ascertain whether they come out at right angles to the slope or to the horizon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8147

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 29)
Summary:

Asks FD questions about his sketch [missing] of ridges and furrows. [FD’s answers are interlined.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8148

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 198
Summary:

As a man of science, StGM has no choice but to pursue what he sees as the truth. Will happily admit he has misrepresented CD if CD will disclaim the position that StGM attacks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP6972

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
B. Charles Brough
Date:
6 January 1872
Source of text:
Brough, B. C. (1873). The non-convexity of water. A reply to Mr. Wallace. The Zetetic: A Monthly Journal of Cosmographical Science : 1 (7): 56-57
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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