From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Matthew Arnold
Date:
9 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 1
Summary:
Thanks MA for his Literature and dogma [1873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 435
Summary:
Encloses cheque for 1000 guineas, CD’s share of profits on first 7000 copies of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
11 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:
Thinks FBG’s idea of a room at the British Museum of domestic birds and animals an excellent one, but a collection of plants would be much more difficult.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Date:
11 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Kotte Autographs (dealers) (30 October 2008)
Summary:
Is sorry that CIFM has had to give up translating Expression into Italian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
12 February 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258: 556
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[12 February 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1269
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Duncan Gillies
Date:
12 February 1873
Source of text:
K73/2674, unit 750, VPRS 44/P inward registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 13 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 13 February 1873, pp. 281–2
Summary:
Sends a letter from William Huggins about a case of inherited fright in three generations of mastiffs. Discusses the different origins of instincts and their inheritance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eustace Maclean Swanwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 325
Summary:
Gives a case of peculiar behaviour in cats that apparently is inherited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
14 Feb 1873
Source of text:
27, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mariabella Hodgkin; Mariabella Fry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 220
Summary:
Remarks on the "grief-muscles" shown in a Dürer picture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
William Huggins
Date:
15 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 105: A72–3
Summary:
Returns family documents about "Kepler" [William Huggins’ dog, see Collected papers 2: 170–1]; there is still some sort of investigation into the "precise mental condition" of "Kepler" and his relatives.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Edwards
Date:
15 February 1873
Source of text:
West Virginia State Archives: William Henry Edwards Collection (MS 79-2), Correspondence 23, 307
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther
Date:
16 February 1873
Source of text:
- Moser Library, Shrewsbury School: Darwinia, Wallace & Huxley letters no. 34
- Gunther, A. E. (1975). In: A Century of Zoology at the British Museum Through the Lives of Two Keepers, 1815-1914. London: Dawson & Sons Ltd. [p. 316]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 257–8
Summary:
Is drawing up the account of his crossing experiments. Requests JDH to add the families after nine genera, the names of which he encloses. Whenever there is no objection he would like to arrange the families in some sort of natural order.
Recommends Spalding’s article on instinct in Macmillan’s Magazine [27 (1873): 265–81].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
Date:
17 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828)
Summary:
Is glad JLGK has been interested in Descent.
Thanks him for his observations on monkey behaviour [see 8698]
and drawings of skulls, which CD has sent to George Busk.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Myers, A. T.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
17 February [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1747
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Carl Heinrich Schaible
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 48
Summary:
Sends copy of Vinzenz Czerny [Beziehungen der Chirurgie (1872)], which applies Darwinian principles to pathology.
Recommends illustrations dealing with expression in the Atlas of K. H. Baumgärtner’s Kranken-Physiognomik [1839].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
18 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 14
Summary:
Thanks for information on worm-castings. Comments on disintegration of castings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Philip Lutley Sclater
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 February 1873
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP13/1/17
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project