From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 173
Summary:
Thanks CD for one of his books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
10 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 379
Summary:
Much obliged for seeds. Will expose seeds to chemical vapours.
Comments on JTM’s spider experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Frederic Hislop Elliot
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Mar 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 17
Summary:
Instinctive responses in animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gotthold Heinrich Otto (Otto) Caspari
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 117
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of his book [Die Urgeschichte der Menschheit, 2 vols. (1873)].
In Germany CD’s views have achieved great recognition among naturalists, but in other disciplines there is great controversy. OC’s book seeks to resolve the controversy by showing how state, morals, religion, and church have developed from natural beginnings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:
13 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS.Add. 7652/III I.11)
Summary:
Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Murray Humphry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 14] Mar 1873
Source of text:
CUL Cambridge University Registry guard books: Sedgwick Memorial Museum 1873–1924 CUR 110: 1
Summary:
A circular advertising a meeting at the Senate House, Cambridge, on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Professor Adam Sedgwick.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 139
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 26
Summary:
Thanks for congratulations on appearance of abstract of HA’s paper [Nature 7 (1873): 343–4].
Explains again his theory of "contraction with twist" by which compact buds and a spiral phyllotaxy have evolved. Explains how the peculiar phyllotaxy of the teasel is explicable by this process of "condensation".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
18 Mar [1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 168
Summary:
CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 200
Summary:
Two students express their gratitude and admiration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
19 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 352
Summary:
Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.
Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
G. H Eggers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 163: 9
Summary:
An admirer sends clipping from Bremen newspaper on hybrid between orange and lemon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
21 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 158
Summary:
Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jan Constantijn Costerus; Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
Date:
[22?] Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 139.12: 11
Summary:
Thanks them for their kind letter and interest in his work. Sends photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johannes Nepomuk (Johannes) Huber
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 280
Summary:
Describes his critique of natural selection [Die Lehre Darwins kritisch betrachtet (1871)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 89: 83–4
Summary:
Gives some information on variation of ocelli between sexes in butterfly species.
Proposes publishing a series of papers on mimicry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 66
Summary:
H. W. Bates says CD is in town. WWR would like to call.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
26 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 143: 156
Summary:
Thanks for Indian [Medical] Gazette. Comments on article.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 336
Summary:
Discusses expression among the Chinese. Reports certain physical characters and the practice of certain unusual customs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 89: 96–7
Summary:
On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;
instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
