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From:
Lajos Felméri
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 116
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Expression. Notes on expression among the Széklers.

Sends a copy of his book of travels in Scotland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis William Smartt
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 181
Summary:

Reports the case of an idiot in his care who apparently chews his cud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Denison Baldwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 21
Summary:

Has studied CD’s books and accepts evolution without giving up belief in creation of first forms.

On theory in Descent, suggests offspring of the original [human] progenitor dispersed before a human stage arrived at; this would account for races and languages with no discernible common origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/14)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s article ["Hereditary improvement", Fraser’s Mag. 87 (1873): 116–30]. Finds it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race".

Thanks for rabbits for Balfour.

Mentions reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas [of life (1872)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 243–7
Summary:

Asks whether his observations on absorptive powers of glandular hairs of plants are new facts.

Asks for a Drosophyllum.

Comments on Francis Galton’s article in Fraser’s Magazine,

Greg’s Enigmas,

and Alphonse de Candolle’s Histoire des sciences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
6 Jan [1873-4]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

"If you will apply to any bookseller whatever you will procure a copy.–– Publisher Murray."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Daniel Mackinnon
Date:
7 January 1873
Source of text:
Box 12/6 Mackinnon papers, bay 16, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 140–5
Summary:

Fascinated by Greg’s Enigmas, though its matter is weak.

Is vexed at being drawn into hostility toward British Museum through William Carruthers’ insolence and presumption.

Recounts visit with Edward Cardwell [Secretary for War].

Has sent Candolle’s book to Gladstone.

JDH indignant at Gladstone’s speech putting English science below French and German.

Thinks it is an accepted dogma that glandular hairs are excreting only. Will ask others to confirm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (102)
Summary:

Has received, through AG, a letter on Dionaea [from W. M. Canby] which has greatly interested him. CD asks AG to question his correspondent on whether it catches large or small insects.

Mary Treat will observe Drosera filiformis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 248–50
Summary:

Explains why he wants Drosophyllum.

Hopes JDH will be elected President of Royal Society.

Agrees with JDH on Greg’s Enigmas.

Would like Greg to visit Down if JDH comes as CD’s "protector".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Has pleasure in signing the [missing] enclosure, with every word of which he fully agrees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:
11 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Summary:

Thanks MDC for letter on expression [see 8694].

Invites him to Down on 24th. CD warns that his health does not permit him to talk long with anyone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Spectator
Date:
11 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Spectator , 18 January 1873, p. 76.
Summary:

Discusses two factors possibly causing modification of body or mind of an organism; habit and direct action of external conditions on the one hand, and selection, natural or artificial, on the other; considers their relative importance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 146–7
Summary:

Drosophyllum is coming from Dublin. Will ship it to Down when it arrives.

The awful honour of Presidency of Royal Society; his aversion to dignities and honours.

R. Strachey [Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1873): 450] has paid him and CD a compliment.

Letter from Gladstone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 251–2
Summary:

Had thrown Geographical Society’s Proceedings in waste-basket, but as Strachey shows such admirable powers of discrimination he will fish it out and read the whole article.

Comments on 3d ed. of Sachs’s work [Lehrbuch der Botanik (1873)]. Wishes he were more controversial.

Has become wonderfully interested in Drosera and Dionaea.

9000 copies of Expression have been printed and most are sold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 January [1873]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 250-251
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 280-281]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
13 January 1873
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 or 20] Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 138–9
Summary:

The Drosophyllum goes to Orpington by train this evening.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
13 January 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.202-203, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Response to ARW’s criticisms in his review [of Expression, Q. J. Sci. n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project