From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 8
Summary:
Concerned about GHD’s health. Sends a prescription for a cough mixture.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
23 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 100–101)
Summary:
Acknowledges correction in text of Variation . "You are a most conscientious editor & are as careful as I am apt to be careless."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Othniel Charles Marsh
Date:
25 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (O. C. Marsh Papers (MS 343) Series 1, Box 8, folder 327)
Summary:
Thanks OCM for the papers he has sent.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 253–6
Summary:
Drosophyllum arrived; none of his observations turned out as he expected, but nevertheless he understands its habits better than he did. The secreting hairs that he observed may be explained as a mere chemical reaction.
Comments on various articles he has read.
Asks for Thiselton-Dyer’s notes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
28 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 68, 1990)
Summary:
Is pleased that HHHvZ has appended his notes to his translation [of Expression and is obliged for the abstract of these notes [see 8712].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
29 Jan [1873?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/37)
Summary:
Has heard from Ashwin Conway Newman of Guy’s Hospital of a case of a child without any prepuce whose father was a renegade, uncircumcised Jew, but whose ancestors had all been Jews. Newman thinks this a good case of inheritance with reversion. JP’s letter [missing] now shows how rash such a conclusion would be.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 102–103)
Summary:
Has no corrections for second German edition [of Expression]. Plans to bring out an improved edition in a year or two.
Thanks for reference JVC sent.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Chapman
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Western University Archives, History of Medicine Collection, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (A04-011-051)
Summary:
Thanks for Chapman 1873 (Chapman, John. 1873. Neuralgia and kindred diseases of the nervous system).
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
3 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Cambridge University Archives (GEOL 9/*1 2b)
Summary:
A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Date:
3 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/474/2); Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
Summary:
Thanks for J. D. MacDonald’s paper ["Distribution of invertebrata", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 218–23].
CD feels lines of genetic connection between animals offer a most difficult problem; Ernst Haeckel may have done mischief by facing the difficulty.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
4 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.411)
Summary:
Is glad JEG has made out what the guemul is ["On the Guémul", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 10 (1872): 445–6; 11 (1873): 214–20, 308–10].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Enrico Hillyer Giglioli
Date:
6 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Andrusier Autographs (dealer) (22 November 2013)
Summary:
Thanks his Italian colleague for articles on the skull of a chimpanzee.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Matthew Arnold
Date:
9 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 1
Summary:
Thanks MA for his Literature and dogma [1873].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
11 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:
Thinks FBG’s idea of a room at the British Museum of domestic birds and animals an excellent one, but a collection of plants would be much more difficult.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Date:
11 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Kotte Autographs (dealers) (30 October 2008)
Summary:
Is sorry that CIFM has had to give up translating Expression into Italian.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 13 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 13 February 1873, pp. 281–2
Summary:
Sends a letter from William Huggins about a case of inherited fright in three generations of mastiffs. Discusses the different origins of instincts and their inheritance.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 257–8
Summary:
Is drawing up the account of his crossing experiments. Requests JDH to add the families after nine genera, the names of which he encloses. Whenever there is no objection he would like to arrange the families in some sort of natural order.
Recommends Spalding’s article on instinct in Macmillan’s Magazine [27 (1873): 265–81].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
Date:
17 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828)
Summary:
Is glad JLGK has been interested in Descent.
Thanks him for his observations on monkey behaviour [see 8698]
and drawings of skulls, which CD has sent to George Busk.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
18 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 14
Summary:
Thanks for information on worm-castings. Comments on disintegration of castings.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Marriott Canby
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
The Society of Natural History of Delaware
Summary:
CD would like to know what were the sizes of insects caught by the older leaves of Dionaea.
Contributor:
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