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From:
Felix Choice
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 145
Summary:

Has read Expression, and assures CD some people cry when happy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 11
Summary:

Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Stanley Haynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 125
Summary:

Notes headed "Observations on the expression of the emotions".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Jackson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 91–5
Summary:

Notes referring to passages in Expression [annotated in places by Francis Darwin, presumably when preparing 2d ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 14
Summary:

Observations on her pet cat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873]
Source of text:
S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408
Summary:

"Sir William Gull has just brought me the enclosed quotations from Chaucer, as illustrations of the closure of the eyes in effort. [In "The Nun’s priest’s tale" in Canterbury tales the fox tricks Chanticleer into crowing, whereupon Chanticleer closes his eyes to make the effort (and gets seized by the fox).] He begs me to send them to you.

I have lately seen a terrier who very distinctly frowns during mental excitement – not always with anger, but often, I think, with anxiety, as in expecting food."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Cecil Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 187
Summary:

Describes some behaviour in herring gulls similar to that of sheldrakes as described by CD in Expression [pp. 47–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 44
Summary:

On expression among Kaffirs and Hottentots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 138
Summary:

Notes on CD’s Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 24
Summary:

HA’s paper on leaf arrangement is almost ready; asks CD to communicate it to the Royal Society. Seeks permission to quote from CD’s notes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Lajos Felméri
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 116
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Expression. Notes on expression among the Széklers.

Sends a copy of his book of travels in Scotland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Denison Baldwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 21
Summary:

Has studied CD’s books and accepts evolution without giving up belief in creation of first forms.

On theory in Descent, suggests offspring of the original [human] progenitor dispersed before a human stage arrived at; this would account for races and languages with no discernible common origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 140–5
Summary:

Fascinated by Greg’s Enigmas, though its matter is weak.

Is vexed at being drawn into hostility toward British Museum through William Carruthers’ insolence and presumption.

Recounts visit with Edward Cardwell [Secretary for War].

Has sent Candolle’s book to Gladstone.

JDH indignant at Gladstone’s speech putting English science below French and German.

Thinks it is an accepted dogma that glandular hairs are excreting only. Will ask others to confirm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 146–7
Summary:

Drosophyllum is coming from Dublin. Will ship it to Down when it arrives.

The awful honour of Presidency of Royal Society; his aversion to dignities and honours.

R. Strachey [Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1873): 450] has paid him and CD a compliment.

Letter from Gladstone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 or 20] Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 138–9
Summary:

The Drosophyllum goes to Orpington by train this evening.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 17
Summary:

Thanks for Expression, which has made him wonder whether his shyness in public until the age of 55 resulted from fear of subjecting his face to ridicule.

Criticises F. Galton’s Hereditary genius [1869] for neglecting environmental influence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 181: 8
Summary:

Is not surprised CD dissents from his criticisms [of Expression?]. Holds to his own interpretation of the expression of astonishment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 January 1873
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 181: 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Pincke Lee
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Expression 2d ed., pp. 291 n. 40, 335 n. 13
Summary:

Describes shaken index finger in Japan and blushing among Chinese servants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
August (Ernst) Meitzen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 115
Summary:

Sends his book [Bhawani (1872)], which is a poem in praise of evolutionary theory and showing its roots in ancient India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project