From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 155–6
Summary:
Charmed by Huxley’s letter of appreciation [8873].
Lady Lyell’s sudden death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 104: 223–24a
Summary:
Concern for Lady Lyell;
will clear away work and set off for holiday in June.
Sends Critiques and addresses.
A life of J. D. Forbes [by J. C. Shairp, P. J. Tait, and A. A. Reilly (1873)] suggests that THH and Tyndall conspired to keep JDF from getting the Copley Medal. THH feels obliged to correct this.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 232
Summary:
Wants to use CD’s support to put pressure on Michael Foster to enable Huxley to take an immediate holiday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emil Buck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 142
Summary:
Announces that CD has been elected Corresponding Member of the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 May 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 89
Summary:
Publisher [Schweizerbart] has seen CD’s new book advertised [Cross and self-fertilisation] and wishes to publish a German translation of it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 140
Summary:
Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller on fertilisation [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Publication plans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Jean Pozzi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 174: 60
Summary:
French translation of Expression [1874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 300
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s praise of his book [see 8901].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ludwik Masłowski
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 89
Summary:
Requests permission to translate Descent into Polish.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 67
Summary:
Has completed his book [The African sketch-book (1873)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 100
Summary:
Samuel Pozzi’s translation of Expression progressing slowly.
J. J. Moulinié’s translation of Descent is stylistically poor, which may account for low sales.
Difficult to find European naturalists to translate CD’s works. They would rather write books on "Darwinisme" under their own names.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 94
Summary:
Wishes to dedicate his memoir ["Monographie der Gattung Anthracotherium", Paleontographica 22 (1876): 131–347] to CD as founder of evolutionary theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 76: B181–2, DAR 77: 139
Summary:
Praises Expression.
Reports on Fritz Müller’s observations of cross- and self-fertilisation. HM will cultivate the two forms [i.e., mainly self-fertilised and mainly cross-fertilised] in the way CD has described.
He continues his observation of wild flowers. Encloses drawing of Viola tricolor with notes on its self-fertility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project