From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[4 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.9: 2
Summary:
Asks FD to bring any book that gives the affinities of the various earths, alkalis and metals.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
7 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 345
Summary:
Thanks JC-B for volume of Asylum reports and paper on epilepsy. Seems clear from reports that physiology of brain will soon be largely understood.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
8 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 6 (EH 88206058)
Summary:
Requests chemicals for Drosera experiments. Lists 12 acids tried so far.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 274–6
Summary:
Thanks JDH and Thiselton-Dyer for useful information.
Is surprised Mimosa albida is not sensitive to water. Asks that they try again, or lend it to him.
Remembers a walk in Brazil in great bed of Mimosa.
After JDH left, CD was very bad, with much loss of memory and severe shocks continually passing through his brain.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 277–9
Summary:
Obliged for information on Mimosa albida; if a vigorous plant behaves as JDH says, CD’s notions are all knocked on the head.
Anxious to read Tyndall’s answer to Tait [Nature 8 (1873): 399].
Drosera story too long for his strength. Essentially the leaves act just like stomach of an animal.
Burdon Sanderson will give some grand facts at BAAS about Dionaea.
Offers to help JDH with Nepenthes experiments. Finds experimental work always takes twice as much time as anticipated.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 105: B1–3
Summary:
Consults about the wisdom of Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant rather than practising medicine.
Outlines his finances.
[Copy in EAD’s hand.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
21 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 136
Summary:
Requests 6 2oz bottles with corks. Folic acid produces remarkable effect. Orders hydriodic acid.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 95: 280–1
Summary:
Had read Tyndall’s letter [Nature 8 (1873): 399] – awfully savage, but certainly a great mistake to print it.
Thinks JDH will think better of Clerk Maxwell’s paper after he reads it.
Asks whether JDH could find out for him the temperature of rain in very hot countries.
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