From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Agnes Huschke; Agnes Haeckel
Date:
[before 3 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A [34831])
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
4 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 343
Summary:
Pleased that JC-B will review Expression.
Fears he will not be able to improve the book with JC-B’s "wonderfully curious" photographs because Murray printed such a large edition.
Would be glad to have JC-B’s notes on inheritance – "a most important subject".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 9
Summary:
Distressed by the poor health of GHD and Horace. Asks them to come home.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
Date:
5 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (James Needham Papers: Collection 21-23-479, Box 3: 28)
Summary:
Thanks for HR’s valuable remarks about Expression, and returns HRs copy, signed.
Discusses some of HR’s anecdotes about children sucking their tongues.
Admits that the youth who trembled so that he could not reload his gun after killing his first snipe was himself, when a school-boy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
10 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 379
Summary:
Much obliged for seeds. Will expose seeds to chemical vapours.
Comments on JTM’s spider experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
11 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.438)
Summary:
Asks about woodblocks of illustrations for Climbing plants [1875].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (106)
Summary:
Astonished by Agassiz’s argument; has sent AG’s memorandum to Nature [see 8786].
Is working on cross- and self-fertilising plants and has temporarily stopped work on Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 13 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 13 March 1873, p. 360
Summary:
Recounts instances suggesting that animals have a sense of direction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:
13 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS.Add. 7652/III I.11)
Summary:
Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Murray Humphry
Date:
14 Mar 1873
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2016)
Summary:
Sorry that his health prevents him attending a meeting to honour Adam Sedgwick.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
18 Mar [1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 168
Summary:
CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
19 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 352
Summary:
Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.
Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Pengelly
Date:
19 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Documenting History (dealers) (1995)
Summary:
Thanks WP for his accounts of sagacity of dogs. "I can believe almost anything about them."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[20 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Nicols 1885 , p. 52
Summary:
Responds to AN’s observations on sense of smell in cats and dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
21 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 158
Summary:
Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jan Constantijn Costerus; Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
Date:
[22?] Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 139.12: 11
Summary:
Thanks them for their kind letter and interest in his work. Sends photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
26 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 143: 156
Summary:
Thanks for Indian [Medical] Gazette. Comments on article.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
26 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350, Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Thanks RM for note on ocelli.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Willett
Date:
26 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD subscribes an additional £10.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Medical Times and Gazette
Date:
[before 29 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Medical Times and Gazette , 29 March 1873, p. 350
Summary:
Advertising a testimonial for James Murie.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project