From:
Charles Loring Brace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Aug? 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 273 (fragile letters)
Summary:
Reports that the ability to move ears is common among the Sioux.
Contributor:
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From:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Aug–Sept? 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 87–9
Summary:
Notes criticising Max Müller’s views on language and Darwinism.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 128
Summary:
Sends extracts, from his forthcoming book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)], about the secretion by plants of honey to attract the protection of ants. Invites CD’s comments.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 159
Summary:
Returned last night. Huxley, left at Baden Baden, remarkably well.
Would like to come to Down with Strachey.
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From:
John Oliver Willyams Haweis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 120
Summary:
On inheritance of gesture.
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From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 119
Summary:
Sends paper to be published in Sydney Mail on primitive man.
Sends lists of earth [castings] made by worms [see Earthworms, p. 127],
and a catalogue of Australian Lepidoptera.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 120
Summary:
Encloses a copy of his paper on mimicry [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 153–61].
Asks whether large variations are more often limited to one sex than slight ones.
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 75
Summary:
Observations on effect of water on leaves.
Coronilla.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 76a–76b
Summary:
Further observations concerning the fertilisation of Coronilla by bees.
Reflections concerning the influence of cultivation (i.e., ploughing) upon variation.
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From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 34–7
Summary:
Answers CD’s questions of 25 July [8987] about temperatures at which cold-blooded animals are killed.
Doubts heat rigor was induced in Drosera. Gives his view of the relation of excitability to increase in temperature.
Suggests experiment to show that electrical changes in plant are the same as in animal muscle and nerve [see Insectivorous plants, p. 318].
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From:
E. T Gardner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 7
Summary:
Sends CD an excerpt from N. Y. Tribune [missing] about an account by W. D. Whitney, of Yale, of scientific work in Colorado.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 26
Summary:
Has found Lathyrus maritima on the cliffs near Barmouth.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 167–8
Summary:
Has observed CD’s points. Except for leaves of Nelumbium, would have supposed both wax and hairs were connected with absorption or respiratory functions. May subserve some function connected with rays of sun. Watering most prejudicial in the hot sun: a splendid subject for experiments.
Adam is a good man.
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 or 17 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 140–1
Summary:
Gives his opinion on why tubes of peas split to the right of the loose stamens [inLathyrus sylvestris].
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 160–1
Summary:
He and Strachey will arrive on Saturday.
Is aghast at thought of being questioned on injury to plants by watering. Fears he will be considered an ignorant Director of Kew.
Contributor:
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From:
William Gregory Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 181: 4
Summary:
African elephants cry when distressed.
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 106
Summary:
Experiments with Mimosa.
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From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 198/3, 199
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of Expression. Is always interested in CD’s work, but finds himself diverging from some of his leading ideas.
P.S. Has found shedding of toenails in a nephew as well.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 166
Summary:
Will arrive at Orpington by usual train.
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From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 222
Summary:
He has added carbolic acid to the seed germination experiments and sends more results on the effect of formic acid. Formic acid inhibits mildew on dough but not on seeds.
Mildew never grows in ants’ nests.
Sends an account, from the Mishnah, of grain stored by ants.
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