From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[13 May 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 111
Summary:
Work will prevent his visiting Down as he had planned.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
13 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 185: 32
Summary:
Wishes to insert R. B. Litchfield’s remarks [into Expression] but will not give them as his own.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 175–6, DAR 90: 101, DAR 178: 83, DAR 193: 22
Summary:
Has found the skull of the horned cock.
With regard to CD’s suggestion about the possibility of producing a pigeon breed with differently coloured sexes, WBT reports the results of crossing blue and silver dragons; the silver offspring are almost always hens.
Would like the latest edition of the Origin.
Encloses notes on volume one [of Descent].
Encloses a photograph showing the bleaching effect of the sun’s rays on dun feathers in pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 249
Summary:
AG’s application for an appointment to Assistant Keeper at the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Hector
Date:
14 May 1872
Source of text:
Te Papa Archives, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (MU000279/001/0001/0001)
Summary:
Acknowledges election as Honorary Member of the New Zealand Institute [now Royal Society N. Z.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 112–13
Summary:
More on Ayrton affair. Conduct of Gladstone and the Ministry despicable. They have owned him to be in right but will not raise a finger until exposure in Parliament is imminent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 224
Summary:
Is sorry JDH cannot come to Down.
Hopes the House of Lords "pitch into the accursed fellow" [Ayrton].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 May [1872]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for information on sexual colours in pigeons.
Will send latest edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 169: 116; Darwin Pamphlet Collection, CUL, G748
Summary:
Sends his article ["Review of Owen’s Cuvierian principle of palaeontology"].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 47
Summary:
Reports aggressive reactions of three kinds of porcupines to a snake, concluding that in the wild they would probably kill and eat it [see Expression, pp. 93–4]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 60
Summary:
WWR is beginning to appreciate CD’s warnings against his polemical writing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 176
Summary:
Sends sketches of expressions in two dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edmund Denman Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 190
Summary:
Reports and describes massive hailstones which fell in Petoraghur [Nepal].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 332
Summary:
Sends quotation from Thomas Moore’s Memoirs [ed. Lord John Russell, (1853–6)] about hereditary peculiarity in handwriting.
On colour-blindness in his family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 250
Summary:
O. Salvin will not be applying for the same post as AG.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 170
Summary:
AM [wife of Jules Michelet] offers information on crosses in cats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Green
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 224
Summary:
Sends duplicate of his previous letter [8189]; he addressed it simply to C. Darwin, England, and had no reply.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
19 May and 2 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 258: 609
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
19 May 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 93
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Briton Riviere
Date:
19 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 320
Summary:
Comments on drawings of hostile dog and affectionate dog.
Sends small gift of money.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project