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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bromley Rural Sanitary Authority
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 165
Summary:

Gives opinion on the merits of Mr [Stephen P. J.] Eng[leheart (Darwin family doctor)]. Believes he would make an excellent county officer if elected to the district office of health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Felix Choice
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 145
Summary:

Has read Expression, and assures CD some people cry when happy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 11
Summary:

Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Stanley Haynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 125
Summary:

Notes headed "Observations on the expression of the emotions".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Jackson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 91–5
Summary:

Notes referring to passages in Expression [annotated in places by Francis Darwin, presumably when preparing 2d ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1873
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 14
Summary:

Observations on her pet cat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1728
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873]
Source of text:
S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408
Summary:

"Sir William Gull has just brought me the enclosed quotations from Chaucer, as illustrations of the closure of the eyes in effort. [In "The Nun’s priest’s tale" in Canterbury tales the fox tricks Chanticleer into crowing, whereupon Chanticleer closes his eyes to make the effort (and gets seized by the fox).] He begs me to send them to you.

I have lately seen a terrier who very distinctly frowns during mental excitement – not always with anger, but often, I think, with anxiety, as in expecting food."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Samuel Hannaford
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1873
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Cecil Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 187
Summary:

Describes some behaviour in herring gulls similar to that of sheldrakes as described by CD in Expression [pp. 47–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 44
Summary:

On expression among Kaffirs and Hottentots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
R. Williams
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1873-1874
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1874). A defence of modern spiritualism. Part II. Spirit-Photographs. Fortnightly Review : 15 (90): 785-807 [pp. 789-790]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 138
Summary:

Notes on CD’s Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[1873]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 98
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Date:
1 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Amy Nagashima (private collection)
Summary:

Asks for certain observations to be made on Drosera and Dionaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
[1873]
Source of text:
McGill University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Fitzgerald
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 January 1873
Source of text:
MEL 18670, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Jan [1873-4]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. 141 (Slg. Adam) 33, Darwin, Charles)
Summary:

CD appreciates the correspondent’s suggestion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 24
Summary:

HA’s paper on leaf arrangement is almost ready; asks CD to communicate it to the Royal Society. Seeks permission to quote from CD’s notes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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