From:
William Honnywill Hall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 123
Summary:
Asks CD about the origin of certain expressions in man.
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From:
William Frederick Collier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 211
Summary:
Opposes all corporal punishment. Pleased CD agrees with his pamphlet.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 82
Summary:
Insists that suckling babies pound and scratch mothers’ breasts. Perhaps CD’s evidence to the contrary comes from ladies, who only expose small portion of bosom, as opposed to working-class women.
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From:
F. B Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 183–4
Summary:
Various observations on sexual selection portion of Descent – ostriches, rosy-billed duck, egrets, rails, etc.
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From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 173
Summary:
Thanks CD for one of his books.
Contributor:
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From:
Gotthold Heinrich Otto (Otto) Caspari
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 117
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of his book [Die Urgeschichte der Menschheit, 2 vols. (1873)].
In Germany CD’s views have achieved great recognition among naturalists, but in other disciplines there is great controversy. OC’s book seeks to resolve the controversy by showing how state, morals, religion, and church have developed from natural beginnings.
Contributor:
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From:
George Murray Humphry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 14] Mar 1873
Source of text:
CUL Cambridge University Registry guard books: Sedgwick Memorial Museum 1873–1924 CUR 110: 1
Summary:
A circular advertising a meeting at the Senate House, Cambridge, on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Professor Adam Sedgwick.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 139
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
Contributor:
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From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 26
Summary:
Thanks for congratulations on appearance of abstract of HA’s paper [Nature 7 (1873): 343–4].
Explains again his theory of "contraction with twist" by which compact buds and a spiral phyllotaxy have evolved. Explains how the peculiar phyllotaxy of the teasel is explicable by this process of "condensation".
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From:
William Pengelly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1873
Source of text:
Pengelly ed. 1897 , pp. 229–30
Summary:
CD’s notice in Nature [Collected papers 2: 171–2] induces WP to send letters from correspondents recounting stories of a dog that learned to open a door and of another that found his way home from London to Cowes.
Contributor:
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From:
Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 200
Summary:
Two students express their gratitude and admiration.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Nicols 1885, pp. 51–2
Summary:
Compares sense of smell in dogs and cats.
Contributor:
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From:
G. H Eggers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 163: 9
Summary:
An admirer sends clipping from Bremen newspaper on hybrid between orange and lemon.
Contributor:
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From:
Johannes Nepomuk (Johannes) Huber
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 280
Summary:
Describes his critique of natural selection [Die Lehre Darwins kritisch betrachtet (1871)].
Contributor:
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 89: 83–4
Summary:
Gives some information on variation of ocelli between sexes in butterfly species.
Proposes publishing a series of papers on mimicry.
Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 66
Summary:
H. W. Bates says CD is in town. WWR would like to call.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 336
Summary:
Discusses expression among the Chinese. Reports certain physical characters and the practice of certain unusual customs.
Contributor:
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From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 89: 96–7
Summary:
On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;
instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.
Contributor:
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From:
Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 201
Summary:
Thanks CD for photograph – sends one in return,
questions CD on his religious views.
Contributor:
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From:
Gregory Beddome Thornbery
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 316
Summary:
Has read several of CD’s books; is curious about his remarks on "movements which are no longer useful but still inherited". Asks CD’s opinion on why people still swing arms with opposite leg in walking.
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