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DCP-LETT-8754

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 102–103)
Summary:

Has no corrections for second German edition [of Expression]. Plans to bring out an improved edition in a year or two.

Thanks for reference JVC sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8751F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Chapman
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Western University Archives, History of Medicine Collection, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (A04-011-051)
Summary:

Thanks for Chapman 1873 (Chapman, John. 1873. Neuralgia and kindred diseases of the nervous system).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8756

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 217
Summary:

He does not accept Wallace’s definition of instinct because it excludes "inherited experience", i.e., "knowledge acquired by and transmitted through ancestors".

House-flies do not seem to have an instinctive fear of trap-door spiders.

Miss Forster gives him news of CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7260

From:
Sophia E. De Morgan
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1873]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.441
Summary:

Will send a large number of the remaining letters next week. Would be grateful if she would put them in order. The Budget of Paradoxes [of Augustus De Morgan] has been pleasant but difficult work owing to the printers' strike.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

WCP3627

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
2 February 1873
Source of text:
Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers (auction)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8757F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
3 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Cambridge University Archives (GEOL 9/*1 2b)
Summary:

A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8757

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Date:
3 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/474/2); Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
Summary:

Thanks for J. D. MacDonald’s paper ["Distribution of invertebrata", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 218–23].

CD feels lines of genetic connection between animals offer a most difficult problem; Ernst Haeckel may have done mischief by facing the difficulty.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8758

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
4 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.411)
Summary:

Is glad JEG has made out what the guemul is ["On the Guémul", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 10 (1872): 445–6; 11 (1873): 214–20, 308–10].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1548

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
4 February 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.28, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1207

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
4 February 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.204-206, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-8201A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Enrico Hillyer Giglioli
Date:
6 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Andrusier Autographs (dealer) (22 November 2013)
Summary:

Thanks his Italian colleague for articles on the skull of a chimpanzee.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8759

From:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 30
Summary:

Cannot find a publisher for Italian translation of Expression. Gives up the project.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8760

From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 62
Summary:

Would like a museum set up illustrating origins, varieties, and uses of domestic animals; seeks CD’s approval of the idea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8761

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 328
Summary:

Forwards Matthew Arnold’s Literature and dogma [1873].

Hopes they can secure Hooker for President of Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8762

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Matthew Arnold
Date:
9 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 1
Summary:

Thanks MA for his Literature and dogma [1873].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8763

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 435
Summary:

Encloses cheque for 1000 guineas, CD’s share of profits on first 7000 copies of Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8763F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
11 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Thinks FBG’s idea of a room at the British Museum of domestic birds and animals an excellent one, but a collection of plants would be much more difficult.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8763G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Date:
11 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Kotte Autographs (dealers) (30 October 2008)
Summary:

Is sorry that CIFM has had to give up translating Expression into Italian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8765

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 13 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 13 February 1873, pp. 281–2
Summary:

Sends a letter from William Huggins about a case of inherited fright in three generations of mastiffs. Discusses the different origins of instincts and their inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8793

From:
Eustace Maclean Swanwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 325
Summary:

Gives a case of peculiar behaviour in cats that apparently is inherited.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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