From:
Charles Loring Brace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Aug? 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 273 (fragile letters)
Summary:
Reports that the ability to move ears is common among the Sioux.
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From:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Aug–Sept? 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 87–9
Summary:
Notes criticising Max Müller’s views on language and Darwinism.
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From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 128
Summary:
Sends extracts, from his forthcoming book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)], about the secretion by plants of honey to attract the protection of ants. Invites CD’s comments.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 11
Summary:
Thinks highly of GHD’s article [probably "On beneficial restrictions to liberty of marriage", Contemp. Rev. 22 (1873): 412–26]. A good omen for the future.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 159
Summary:
Returned last night. Huxley, left at Baden Baden, remarkably well.
Would like to come to Down with Strachey.
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[4 August 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.18
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 268–9
Summary:
Starts tomorrow for visit to Farrer and Effie [Euphemia Farrer, daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood]. Has not done such a feat [i.e., staying as a guest of someone outside the immediate family?] for 25 years.
Has been half killing himself with Drosera.
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
5 August 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1629
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Monteagle, Lord
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
5 August 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1740
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[6 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 581
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
[7 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 78
Summary:
Discusses utility of plant secretions to ants.
Will read TB’s book when published [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)].
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From:
John Oliver Willyams Haweis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 120
Summary:
On inheritance of gesture.
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From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 119
Summary:
Sends paper to be published in Sydney Mail on primitive man.
Sends lists of earth [castings] made by worms [see Earthworms, p. 127],
and a catalogue of Australian Lepidoptera.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frank Chance
Date:
10 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 139
Summary:
Thanks [FC] for his letter concerning a pony changing colour during the winter,
and remarks on the erection of human body hair, goose-skin, and the influence of colour and temperature on skin.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 120
Summary:
Encloses a copy of his paper on mimicry [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 153–61].
Asks whether large variations are more often limited to one sex than slight ones.
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 75
Summary:
Observations on effect of water on leaves.
Coronilla.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 76a–76b
Summary:
Further observations concerning the fertilisation of Coronilla by bees.
Reflections concerning the influence of cultivation (i.e., ploughing) upon variation.
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From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 34–7
Summary:
Answers CD’s questions of 25 July [8987] about temperatures at which cold-blooded animals are killed.
Doubts heat rigor was induced in Drosera. Gives his view of the relation of excitability to increase in temperature.
Suggests experiment to show that electrical changes in plant are the same as in animal muscle and nerve [see Insectivorous plants, p. 318].
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From:
E. T Gardner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 7
Summary:
Sends CD an excerpt from N. Y. Tribune [missing] about an account by W. D. Whitney, of Yale, of scientific work in Colorado.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 270–1
Summary:
Asks JDH why so many plants are protected by a thin layer of waxy matter or with fine hairs.
Wrote to John Smith for a plant of Oxalis sensitiva, but it has not acted well.
Rejoices over Ayrton’s retirement. Hopes W. P. Adam, his successor, is a good sort of man.
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