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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 421
Summary:

Has learned that German edition [of Expression] will be on larger pages than English one. No copies of heliotype plates [for Expression] have been delivered. Hopes Heliotype Company is not going to throw them over. Suggests CD write a strong letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
3 Oct 1872
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 262)
Summary:

Arrangements for foreign editions [of Expression]. Delay by Heliotype Company is provoking.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Marcus Clarke
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 October 1872
Source of text:
Letter no. 134/I.T.M.72, pp. 509-10, Outward letterbook 1870-9, Industrial and Technological Museum and Public Library, Museum Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 422
Summary:

Heliotype Company assures RC all 8000 sets of the plates [for Expression] will be ready next week.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Harris
Date:
4 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
University of California Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division (Ms. 10, Letters concerning George Harris’s A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man )
Summary:

Thanks GH for his Theory of the ants [1869] and offers to supply any zoological information that he can.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 229–30
Summary:

Is sending Drosera back

and "the curious Kerguelen book".

"Drosera has almost been the death of me."

Hopes the accursed man [Ayrton] does not give JDH any more trouble.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Henry Enfield Roscoe
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 October 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 254-255
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
6 October 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 63-4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 181
Summary:

Discusses the coiling of tendrils of climbing plants.

AG’s recent tour of the U. S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 216
Summary:

He will send his book [Harvesting ants and trap-door spiders (1873)]. Describes two new types of trap-door spider nests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 84
Summary:

Has translated half of Expression; is delighted with it. Comments on some points that he questions.

Is at work on concluding part of his handbook of zoology [Handbuch der Zoologie, 2 vols. (1863–75), with A. Gerstaecker].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 121–3
Summary:

Miscellaneous personal matters.

What does CD think of Robert Mallet’s earthquake theory? Would it not account for strata dipping at base of range of mountains?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
8 October 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-1881, f. 65
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 423
Summary:

Expression is now almost ready. The plates will require great care in the binding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
9 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 378
Summary:

Discusses JTM’s research on habits of insects. "How incomparably more valuable are such researches than the mere description of a thousand species."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
9 October 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.24, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
10 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 92–93)
Summary:

Will consider JVC’s comments on Expression when he prepares a new edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 31–2)
Summary:

Is much vexed about Drosera.

Land-level changes and volcanic activity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alpheus Hyatt
Date:
10 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library (Hyatt and Mayer Collection Box 2, folder 74)
Summary:

Thanks for "Embryology of the fossil cephalopods", [Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 3 (1872–4): 59–112].

Regrets error in attributing acceleration concept to E. D. Cope instead of to AH in last edition of Origin, and misrepresentation of their joint view.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
10 October 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.284, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project