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DCP-LETT-8891

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 298
Summary:

Missed hostile review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Agrees it might be by J. H. Stirling [see 8935], who has written in a deplorably polemical style on Huxley and Sir William Hamilton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
1 May 1873
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:

Asks whether, in Italy, varieties of Lathyrus odoratus, Pisum sativum, and Phaseolus multiflorus must be grown separately to come true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8893

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isidoro Dell’Oro
Date:
2 May 1873
Source of text:
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 02.014)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for sending him an account of silkworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8894

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
2 [May] 1873
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 19 (EH 88205957)
Summary:

Hopes JT does not think him over-cautious in requesting the return of the copies [of Huxley’s letter]. Has sent Huxley a list of the subscribers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8896

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 74
Summary:

Hopes affairs will enable him to get back to flowers.

Huxley’s letter [about the fund raised for him] was noble. Would like to have seen CD’s to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8895

From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 118
Summary:

Suggests hopping lizards may show the connection between reptiles and birds as proposed by Huxley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8897

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 May [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 436
Summary:

Asks Murray not to announce Cross and self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8897A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
4 May [1873]
Source of text:
Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997)
Summary:

Explains that his publisher has erred in announcing his book [Cross and self-fertilisation] prematurely. [See 8890 and 8897.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8705

From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 5 May 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 7
Summary:

Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller’s book on fertilisation [Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8900

From:
Karl Ernst von Baer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 15
Summary:

Has been told CD wants photo of him; sends one. Requests a portrait photo of CD for his album. KEvB apologises for his English and his shaky hand; he is 88 years old.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8898

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
5 May [1873]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8899

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix von Luschan
Date:
5 May 1873
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. Felix v. Luschan: Darwin, Charles)
Summary:

Thanks FL for sending his essays and some photographs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8901

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
5 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 434
Summary:

Comments on HM’s book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Particularly glad to read historical sketch and discussion of work of C. K. Sprengel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8901F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
5 May [1873]
Source of text:
James P. Evans (private collection)
Summary:

Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung den Blumen durch Insekten (1873).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8902

From:
William Fletcher Barrett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 46
Summary:

Because of current interest in hereditary instinct, relates incident about a baby alligator, just emerged from its shell, attempting to bite a human.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7742

From:
George Hookham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 266
Summary:

A fact on expression: sheep do use hoofs in fighting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7262

From:
Sophia E. De Morgan
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1873]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.443
Summary:

Has sent off the last of the letters. Anne Sheepshanks is 83 and still clear in the head. If she visits the Royal Academy, she will see the bust of Augustus De Morgan there.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-8904

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Marriott Canby
Date:
7 May 1873
Source of text:
Natural History Society of Delaware
Summary:

Thanks for the Dionaea leaves. They support CD’s anticipation that they are adapted to let the smaller fry escape [see Insectivorous plants, p. 312].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8903

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Bray Leffen
Date:
7 May 1873
Source of text:
State Library Victoria, Melbourne (MS 6219, Box 231/3. Diary of G. F. Belcher vol. 3)
Summary:

Thanks for note and information.

Mentions venomous caterpillars in Africa and Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC197

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
7 May 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

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Contributor:
Hooker Project
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