From:
Hugh Frederic Hislop Elliot
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Mar 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 17
Summary:
Instinctive responses in animals.
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:
Gotthold Heinrich Otto (Otto) Caspari
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 117
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of his book [Die Urgeschichte der Menschheit, 2 vols. (1873)].
In Germany CD’s views have achieved great recognition among naturalists, but in other disciplines there is great controversy. OC’s book seeks to resolve the controversy by showing how state, morals, religion, and church have developed from natural beginnings.
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:
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
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:
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
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
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
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:
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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
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
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:
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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:
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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