From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 142–3
Summary:
Regrets that "our brush theory" is wrong.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 107
Summary:
Experiments on Mimosa; effects of immersion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Theodor Gomperz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 61
Summary:
Comments on Expression. Suggests solutions to some of CD’s unresolved problems. Widens the "Principle of Association", whereby gestures associated with one emotion can also come to accompany a second emotion. Confirms the occurrence of blushing in the dark. Considers CD’s use of the "principle of Conservation of Force"; outlines its larger applications.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 302
Summary:
Fritz Müller is now working on the Brazilian honey-bees (Melipona and Trigona).
HM thanks CD for fertilisation references.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Strachey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 264
Summary:
Reports that grapes are spoiled by rain at vintage time and that damaged grapes, whose "bloom" is not intact, are particularly susceptible.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 69
Summary:
Has returned from Egypt because of trouble with his eyes.
Has read George Darwin’s article on consanguineous marriage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Caldwell Rye
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 230
Summary:
Reports a paper by H. von Kiesenwetter [Berliner Entomol. Z. 16 (1872): 370] on the Malthodes, some species of which appear to have a sex ratio with females greatly outnumbering males, suggesting the occurrence of parthenogenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug – 14 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 108
Summary:
Experiments on Mimosa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 77: 173; DAR 209.6: 205
Summary:
Identifies three plants sent by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1873
Source of text:
V. O. Kovalevsky 1873–4 , pp. [ii–iii]
Summary:
Talks of his attempts to describe the course of descent for a part of the animal kingdom, and thanks CD for his help and support.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 70
Summary:
Going to the Ashanti war as Times correspondent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project