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DCP-LETT-9412

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
15 Nov 1873
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 249)
Summary:

THH sends to AD a draft, prepared by himself and CD, of a statement for a subscription fund to assist AD’s Naples Zoological Station.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9145

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
16 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for assistance. He will write fully to Wallace tomorrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9146F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
16 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018
Summary:

Thanks for FH’s work on the means of the distribution of plants (Hildebrand 1873).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9147

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
17 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter. Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 108–109)
Summary:

Informs JVC that he is beginning a second, corrected edition of Descent, in case a new edition is wanted in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4092

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 November 1873
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 96: 161-162
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[17 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 16
Summary:

Sorry to hear of GHD’s poor health – he could have pleasant society at Cambridge if he were stronger.

Contributes £75 [to a fund for Naples Zoological Station] "if the affair goes on after we hear from Dohrn".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9054

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 133-4
Summary:

Is sending specimens of Eucalyptus;

goes tomorrow to receive LL.D. [Glasgow].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9149

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 96: 161–2
Summary:

Would be happy if ARW would undertake to help with correcting the proof-sheets of his revised edition of Descent. Outlines the job that would be required.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4093

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[18] [November] [1873]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 96: 164
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9153

From:
Karl Ludwig Valentin (Valentin) Salzmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 26
Summary:

Discusses human reactions to pleasant and unpleasant tastes; considers that modifications of these reactions produce several identifiable expressions of general like and dislike.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9151

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 106: B118–19
Summary:

Discussion of his possible assistance on editorial work for revised edition of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[18 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 164
Summary:

CD’s son [George] could do the work [of proof-correction for Descent, 2d ed.] if ARW finds he does not care for it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1961

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 November 1873
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B118-119
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 253
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 282-283]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9155

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
19 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-6)
Summary:

Sends the very little globulin and haemoglobin he has to be tested with artificial gastric juice. He could get more from Samuel William Moore. Perhaps T. L. Brunton knows about the digestion of chlorophyll by animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1962

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 November [1873]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 254-255
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 283-284]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-0746

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[19 November] 1873
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 107
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Further discussion of ARW’s help on new [2d] edition of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9156

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B117
Summary:

Thinks CD’s son George would be more satisfactory than ARW for the work on Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4104

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19] [November] [1873]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B117
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 252
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 281-282]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9157

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 17
Summary:

CD is looking for editorial assistance in preparing a new edition of Descent, and inquires whether GHD might be interested in taking on such a tedious job.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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