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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–15 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 10
Summary:

Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn’t suit him. May go to Pryor’s on Sunday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 March 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81. f. 76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Mar 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 132
Summary:

Fears [CD’s] albumen theory will not work because albumen is coagulated and filtered out in making extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamine, and colchicine [alkaloid poisons].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Mar 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 133
Summary:

Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 318
Summary:

Thanks for Expression. Will write paper on it in next [July] West Riding Asylum Medical Report.

Sends photos of lunatics;

will send notes corroborative of CD’s views, including some on "hereditarily transmitted movements".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Agnes Huschke; Agnes Haeckel
Date:
[before 3 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A [34831])
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
3 March 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 26
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 109
Summary:

Although he believes in evolution, TM feels that natural selection is an inadequate cause;

nor is he satisfied with E. D. Cope’s law of acceleration and retardation.

Discusses some of his work relating to nutrition and sex and colour and sex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 105
Summary:

Praise for and detailed comments on Expression.

Two cases of coloration in animals – one from sexual selection, the other helping to procure prey [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 542–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
unknown
To:
Secretary of the Royal Society
Date:
4 March 1873
Source of text:
MM/11/52, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
4 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 343
Summary:

Pleased that JC-B will review Expression.

Fears he will not be able to improve the book with JC-B’s "wonderfully curious" photographs because Murray printed such a large edition.

Would be glad to have JC-B’s notes on inheritance – "a most important subject".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Verdon
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 March 1873
Source of text:
L73/4327, unit 750, VPRS 44/P inward registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 99
Summary:

Recounts the difficulties in preparing the French translation of Origin: the 1870 war, the illness and death of J. J. Moulinié, the alterations and additions from the 6th English edition. Despite competition from Royer’s three editions, Reinwald is contemplating a new edition.

Descent, vol. 1, has almost sold out. Offers CD £40 for rights to reprint a corrected version of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 9
Summary:

Distressed by the poor health of GHD and Horace. Asks them to come home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Honnywill Hall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 123
Summary:

Asks CD about the origin of certain expressions in man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
Date:
5 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (James Needham Papers: Collection 21-23-479, Box 3: 28)
Summary:

Thanks for HR’s valuable remarks about Expression, and returns HRs copy, signed.

Discusses some of HR’s anecdotes about children sucking their tongues.

Admits that the youth who trembled so that he could not reload his gun after killing his first snipe was himself, when a school-boy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
5 March 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.1, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH discusses exchanging plants with Lady Hyacinth Jardine [later Hooker]. He would be glad to accept large quantities of Gualtheria [Gaultheria] Shallon & instructs how they should be selected & packed for transport. He would also like some Rhododendron hybrids, Primula farinosa & roots of Typha angustifolia for the pond. JDH recommends that Sir William [Jardine] cultivate small palms. JDH plans to take his wife Frances Hooker [née Henslow] to the south of France & hopes the warmer climate will help her recovery from influenza. If the Jardine's gardener can supply it JDH would like moss for packing & Sphagnum for orchids & will send plants in exchange.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
5 March 1873
Source of text:
McGill University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
6 March 1873
Source of text:
MM/14/220, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[6 March 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 573
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters