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DCP-LETT-8773

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Marriott Canby
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
The Society of Natural History of Delaware
Summary:

CD would like to know what were the sizes of insects caught by the older leaves of Dionaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8775

From:
Thomas Richmond Clephan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 87: 53
Summary:

Reports that he has the power of moving his left ear towards the top of his head [see Descent 1: 21].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8776

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b.7, fasc. 28, doc. 5)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of first part of AG’s magnificent work [Animaux fossiles du mont Léberon (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8774

From:
Franz Xaver Neumann von Spallart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 172: 15
Summary:

The editor of a supplement to the New Free Press to be published during the next Vienna Exhibition, asks CD to contribute a few columns on any topic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8776A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (22 April 2020, lot 47289)
Summary:

Thanks for a photograph of a donkey and children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7261

From:
Sophia E. De Morgan
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1873]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.442
Summary:

Letters arrived on Monday and will be kept safe. Feels envious at Miss Herschel's forthcoming visit to Rome. Mentions a friend she may meet there. Work progresses slowly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-8776F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
19 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (9 May 2012, lot 849)
Summary:

Orders a copy of the St Paul’s Magazine for February.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8778

From:
Laura Mary Forster
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
20 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 159
Summary:

Recommends a language teacher.

Remarks on expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8777

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 149–50
Summary:

Delighted with John Traherne Moggridge’s book [Harvesting ants (1873)].

Has suggested he plant seeds in various receptacles. Only two explanations for failure of seeds to germinate [in ants’ nests]: lack of circulating air or formic acid.

Has undertaken a botany primer for Macmillan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-73-02-21

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 February 1873
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8779

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 259–60
Summary:

Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.

Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3022

From:
James Thomas Knowles
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 February 1873
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 5-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8780

From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 172: 60
Summary:

Comments on CD’s and William Huggins’ letter in Nature on "Inherited instinct" [Collected papers 2: 170–1]

and on A. R. Wallace’s letter on the homing faculty of animals. Believes many instances of homing are less remarkable than they appear.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8782

From:
William Frederick Collier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 210
Summary:

Sends pamphlet on punishment in education [Punishments in education, read at Social Science Congress, 1872] in response to Expression. Proposes that character can be diagnosed from expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8781

From:
John Royle Martin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 55
Summary:

CD is asked to increase his shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co. Ltd., which has trebled its capital in the last year and is paying a 6% dividend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8783

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 60
Summary:

Thanks CD for comments on Die Kalkschwämme.

Plans trip to Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt.

Discusses work of a Polish translator, Ludwik Masłowski.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1475

From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[23 February 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1730
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-M73-02-24

From:
Charles Moore
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
24 February 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors correspondence, vol. 173, ff. 244-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8785

From:
Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie (Jean-Charles Houzeau)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 87: 94–5
Summary:

Thanks CD for Expression.

Suggests saving some anthropoid Quadrumana from extinction by taming and studying them in their own environments to learn about their development.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8784

From:
Robert Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 199
Summary:

Asks for references to works on CD’s views for a paper he is preparing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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