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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bromley Rural Sanitary Authority
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 165
Summary:

Gives opinion on the merits of Mr [Stephen P. J.] Eng[leheart (Darwin family doctor)]. Believes he would make an excellent county officer if elected to the district office of health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Date:
1 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Amy Nagashima (private collection)
Summary:

Asks for certain observations to be made on Drosera and Dionaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Jan [1873-4]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. 141 (Slg. Adam) 33, Darwin, Charles)
Summary:

CD appreciates the correspondent’s suggestion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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
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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
[before 16 Jan 1873]
Source of text:
Fourth report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science 1874 [C.884] XXII.1 (pp. 31–2)
Summary:

Encourages the government to keep the herbarium and library of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
18 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

The evidence of tameness of Alpine butterflies [see 8672] seems good and the fact is surprising to CD for they can hardly have acquired this in their short life-time.

The question whether butterflies are attracted to bright colours independently of the supposed presence of nectar is still unanswered.

CD has great difficulty in believing that any temporary condition of parents can affect the offspring.

Pangenesis is much reviled, but CD must still look at generation from this point of view, which makes him averse to believing that an emotion has any effect on the offspring.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
18 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

JP’s note [8739] suggests reversion, but that is an easy trap. Will look to the ears of "our brethren at the Zool. Gardens".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
20 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 52/29)
Summary:

On EH’s Die Kalkschwämme [1872].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
[before 21 Jan 1873]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS. Add. 7656: RS899)
Summary:

Sends HA’s paper ["On leaf arrangement"] with a supporting note [from CD] to Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Denison Baldwin
Date:
21 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
Steven S. Raab (dealer) (September 2001)
Summary:

Discusses JDB’s views on the spread of human-like creatures across the world, and the development of language.

Contributor:
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