From:
Andrew Clark, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 151
Summary:
Diagnosis of CD’s illness; prescribed diet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 120
Summary:
Proud of CD’s good opinion of him. He worked in a merchant’s office in Germany for many years. Emigrated to Australia as a gold-digger and took up natural history after he was 30.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 220
Summary:
Comparative study of "ethnical scriptures" shows that natural selection has operated in the evolution of religion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Swift Wade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 181: 1
Summary:
Reports case of a man with an eyelid abnormality that apparently was acquired in infancy but was inherited by his children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 320
Summary:
Thanks CD for his praise of West Riding Asylum Medical Reports.
Hopes CD will come to Asylum if he attends BAAS meeting at Bradford.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15–18 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 5
Summary:
FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 162–5
Summary:
Mimosa too far gone to send now.
CD’s marjoram is the common [Origanum] vulgare, not the pot herb.
On the water injury, Thiselton-Dyer and he may have used too fine a spray, but plant is insensitive.
Horribly angry at P. G. Tait’s letter in Nature [8 (1873): 381–2].
Tyndall writes that he is strong – the next number of Nature will prove it.
G. Henslow is much better.
JDH leaves for Bradford [BAAS meeting] tomorrow.
Rejoices at CD’s success with Drosera; longs to be at Nepenthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 7
Summary:
Reports that S. W. Moore may be able to provide various substances for CD’s research on the digestive power of Drosera (sundew).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Searles Valentine Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1873
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6327-9)
Summary:
Thanks for proofs of the Supplement to Crag Mollusca. Sends crab apples.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 38–9
Summary:
CD’s discovery of acidity of Drosera secretion is interesting. EF explains how hydrochloric acid can be detected and identified. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 88.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 173–4
Summary:
Thanks for C. E. Norton’s address.
Tyndall’s answer [Nature 8 (1873): 399] has surprised and disappointed him;
great trouble in announcing Tyndall’s election as President Elect [of BAAS] yesterday. Tyndall may throw up the Presidency. Spottiswoode and JDH have concocted a letter telling him the facts.
A very poor dull meeting. Comments on papers by W. C. Williamson, Clerk Maxwell, David Ferrier, Burdon Sanderson [Rep. BAAS 43: lxx–xci, 23–32,126–7, 131–3].
Has heard Huxley is back quite well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 436
Summary:
Sends CD an account that has the novelty of having a balance against CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Sept – 3 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 205.1: 74
Summary:
Criticises CD’s letter to Nature ["Complemental males in certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].
On the elimination of useless parts.
GHD fails to see the point of CD’s use of the law of distribution about a mean.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B90–1
Summary:
EAD sees advantages to Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 437, DAR 210.11: 1
Summary:
Acknowledges CD’s cheque.
Sends CD cheque for profits on Orchids and a statement of stock on hand of CD’s works [missing].
Origin and Expression sales are stagnant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Sept-Nov] 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 31
Summary:
The Royal Society referees have rejected HA’s phyllotaxy paper, and it will not be printed in Philosophical Transactions. HA is not sorry for he has found new facts which limit the applicability of his views. Now believes that the original leaf arrangement was not necessarily always two-ranked but rather that existing arrangements have developed from a variety of forms with differing numbers of leaf-ranks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Williams Keen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 89: 24–5, DAR 169: 2, and Expression 2d ed., p. 169 n. 19
Summary:
Sends corrections of Descent and Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 208
Summary:
Has sent CD some pure distilled water for his Drosera experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 84
Summary:
Seeks an interview with CD to discuss reorganisation of Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 27
Summary:
He is travelling overnight by train from London to Pantlludw and will wake A. R. Ruck with a morningade on his flute.
Contributor:
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