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DCP-LETT-9166

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
1 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/17a)
Summary:

Suggests a reference to Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1 Dec 1873, p. 497, when THF takes up Coronilla.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9167

From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 337
Summary:

Offers to experiment on the digestibility of chondrin and chlorophyll by Dionaea for CD.

Has noticed that painters depicting complex expressions give different expressions to the two sides of the face.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9125

From:
Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Dec] 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 249
Summary:

Discusses variation and selection in Harz canaries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9168

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Dec 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Is interested in comparative nutritive values of chondrin and gelatin. The former seems to excite Drosera more, though albumen does so to a higher degree than either. Also asks if chlorophyll is digested by animals; Drosera digests it hardly at all.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9169

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 330; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 252)
Summary:

A letter from Anton Dohrn declines the proposed fund [that THH and others suggested be raised in England for marine biological station at Naples].

Hooker’s inaugural as President of Royal Society a success.

R. Owen distinguished himself in his way.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE489

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
3 Dec 1873
Source of text:
43, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-9170

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Fordman
Date:
4 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
Massachusetts Historical Society (Grenville H. Norcross Autograph Collection)
Summary:

Thanks RF for his kind note; cannot quite believe or disbelieve stories of children raised by wolves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9172

From:
Jonathan Peel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 132–3
Summary:

On the vermiform appendix,

snipes breeding in England,

and the horns of crossbred sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 Dec 1873
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 1–2)
Summary:

Wishes to identify a species of Cassia whose movements interest him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9173

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
5 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 305)
Summary:

Sorry to hear of Dohrn’s troubles. Has written to prospective donors saying that nothing can be done because of attitude of Dohrn’s father.

New [2d] edition of Descent is an awful job.

Diet no longer doing much for his health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE444

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Miss Somerville
Date:
6 Dec 1873
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 149, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE349

From:
John Herschel jnr
To:
Martha Somerville
Date:
6 Dec 1873
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 317, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-9174

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 178: 92
Summary:

Movement in plants.

Information on species of Cassia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9175

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 27
Summary:

Illustrates, with reference to different species of Gasteria, the role of twisting in the development of leaf arrangement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1551

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
8 December 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.33, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9176

From:
Richard Strachey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C56–7
Summary:

Sends observations from a friend in India confirming CD’s view that bees cut the tubes of flowers to extract [nectar] in order to save time.

Also observations on snails descending from trees on threads suspended from their tails.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jonathan Peel
Date:
10 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 241
Summary:

Obliged for letter about horns of sheep.

Mentions case of death from objects impacted in appendix.

Is aware of his error about snipe breeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
10 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:

The case of the bees interests CD. He does not doubt that because of the size of their jaws humble-bees will be found all over the world to be the biters and hive-bees to profit from their work.

Thinks he has heard of land shells descending in the manner described by RS.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13772G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
11 Dec [1873-5]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/2)
Summary:

Requests hydrated magnesia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1552

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
13 December 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.34-35, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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