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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[21 October 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 604
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 425
Summary:
Presentation copies [of Expression] will be ready in a week. Has ordered only 250 copies to have cut edges because trade prefers uncut pages.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 Oct 1872
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (100)
Summary:
Spiralling of tendrils.
Has worked hard on Drosera.
Is interested in tracing the "nerves" of Dionaea which follow the vascular bundles. Finds he can paralyse half of the leaf by pricking it at a certain point.
Wishes AG to carry out two experiments on D. filiformis.
Has received AG’s Dubuque address [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 4 (1872): 282–98].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 231–2
Summary:
Condolences on death of JDH’s mother.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 301)
Summary:
Supports the abolition of prize fellowships at the universities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 97
Summary:
Samuel Pozzi has been proposed by C. Martin and Paul Broca as translator of Expression.
First volume of Descent has sold 1200 copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
23 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 286
Summary:
Discusses presentation copies of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 86
Summary:
Doubts accuracy of Bible translations quoted by CD as evidence that Semitic races blush.
Questions his note on derivation of words like "ugly", "huge", etc.
Lists some mistakes and misprints.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 233–4
Summary:
Asks for London address of George King [Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta], so he can ask about worm-castings sent by King from S. India. Has just received a splendid letter from John Scott on worms.
Asks where he can buy Dionaea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
[25 Oct 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 285
Summary:
Comments on discussions with C. Reinwald concerning French edition of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 426
Summary:
Murray’s will allow CD 18 copies [of Expression].
All foreign publishers, except Dutch, have paid for the plates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Grant
Date:
25 October 1872
Source of text:
A345 Royal Park Zoological Society letter & minute book, p.54, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
W. N. Graham
Date:
25 October 1872
Source of text:
A345 Royal Park Zoological Society letter & minute book, p.54, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 196
Summary:
Has not seen CD for about 25 years. Has heard an absurd story that CD and Emma are exploring an unknown part of America.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 427
Summary:
Does not understand Reinwald [French publisher of Expression], who apparently intends an edition of only 500 copies. Sends first copy to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 126–7
Summary:
Has initiated inquiries about Dionaea.
Sends George King’s address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
26 Oct 1872
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69
Summary:
Acknowledges JS’s excellent letter of 25 September. May CD assume that the gigantic worm-casts were nearly circular when measured before the rain?
That a medical man should always have the place of superintendent seems a piece of jobbery.
Mentions [George] King.
JS’s thin paper renders some words on other side almost illegible.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
27 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 96–97)
Summary:
Thanks JVC for his criticisms and corrections of Expression. Asks him to alter his translation accordingly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
27 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 287
Summary:
Discusses distribution of presentation copies of Expression. Sends instructions for mailing his copies. Discusses negotiations with C. Reinwald concerning French edition. Suggests journals to receive review copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 October 1872
Source of text:
Maggs Bros. Ltd. (bookseller)
Summary:
Requests the address of Frederick Geach so that he may send him his book [Expression].
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project