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DCP-LETT-8809

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

DCP-LETT-8810

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

DCP-LETT-8809F

From:
George Murray Humphry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 14] Mar 1873
Source of text:
CUL Cambridge University Registry guard books: Sedgwick Memorial Museum 1873–1924 CUR 110: 1
Summary:

A circular advertising a meeting at the Senate House, Cambridge, on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Professor Adam Sedgwick.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8810F

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

DCP-LETT-8811

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 139
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.

Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].

Other publication plans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8812

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 26
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations on appearance of abstract of HA’s paper [Nature 7 (1873): 343–4].

Explains again his theory of "contraction with twist" by which compact buds and a spiral phyllotaxy have evolved. Explains how the peculiar phyllotaxy of the teasel is explicable by this process of "condensation".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8813

From:
William Pengelly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1873
Source of text:
Pengelly ed. 1897 , pp. 229–30
Summary:

CD’s notice in Nature [Collected papers 2: 171–2] induces WP to send letters from correspondents recounting stories of a dog that learned to open a door and of another that found his way home from London to Cowes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8814

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
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DCP-LETT-8815

From:
Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 200
Summary:

Two students express their gratitude and admiration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8817F

From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Nicols 1885, pp. 51–2
Summary:

Compares sense of smell in dogs and cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8816

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

DCP-LETT-8817

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

DCP-LETT-8817G

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

DCP-LETT-8819

From:
G. H Eggers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 163: 9
Summary:

An admirer sends clipping from Bremen newspaper on hybrid between orange and lemon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8818

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

DCP-LETT-8807

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

DCP-LETT-8820

From:
Johannes Nepomuk (Johannes) Huber
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 280
Summary:

Describes his critique of natural selection [Die Lehre Darwins kritisch betrachtet (1871)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8821

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 89: 83–4
Summary:

Gives some information on variation of ocelli between sexes in butterfly species.

Proposes publishing a series of papers on mimicry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8822

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 66
Summary:

H. W. Bates says CD is in town. WWR would like to call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8825

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
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