From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 7
Summary:
Fears all the seeds are dead. Will try with less vapour of formic acid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Reuter
Date:
17 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 226–227)
Summary:
Thanks for letter and curious photographs. Urges AR not to send anything valuable unless he publishes it elsewhere because CD is growing old and may not have strength and time to continue his former researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
18 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953)
Summary:
The Huxley fund amounts to £1955. CD trembles about THH’s answer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
21 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 7 (EH 88205924)
Summary:
Writes of his extreme interest in WBC’s article ["On the hereditary transmission of acquired psychical habits", Contemp. Rev. 21 (1873): 779–95].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 295)
Summary:
Informs THH that 18 friends have given him a fund of £2100 to enable him to take a holiday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Duncan Hague
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 395
Summary:
Encloses note from J. T. Moggridge commenting on JDH’s letter ["Perception in ants", Nature 7 (1873): 443–4].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
25 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 297)
Summary:
Affected by THH’s letter – will send a copy to the other 17 friends. Hopes for his and public’s sake his health will improve.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6)
Summary:
Offers condolences on the death of CL’s wife.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Subscribers to T. H. Huxley gift
Date:
[25 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 71
Summary:
A circular letter forwarding to subscribers a copy of Huxley’s letter of thanks [8873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 16 (EH 88205954)
Summary:
Sends Huxley’s "charming letter". Asks whether it should be sent to Lady Millicent Jones. CD is "so happy about the whole affair".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 17 (EH 88205955)
Summary:
Sends another copy [of Huxley’s letter of thanks for holiday fund].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 18 (EH 88205956)
Summary:
It has just occurred to CD that he ought not to leave a copy of Huxley’s confidential letter in the hands of anyone. Asks JT to write to ask recipients to return the copies to CD at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
28 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS. 84.2)
Summary:
Asks whether GC knows who gave CD a scolding in last Edinburgh Review [Apr 1873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
28 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/19)
Summary:
Recommends Hermann Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
28 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 299)
Summary:
Lady Lyell’s death.
Sends names of donors of gift to THH.
The Edinburgh Review has a critical article against CD, THH, Tyndall, and H. Spencer [see 8935]. Thinks Forbes reference not worth answering.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (26 April 1984)
Summary:
"I was born in the town of Shrewsbury Feb. 12, 1809."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin
Date:
30 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 27
Summary:
HCFJ’s review of the Origin was the wittiest and in some respects the best written.
Thanks him for his Electricity and magnetism [1873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
