From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 142–3
Summary:
Regrets that "our brush theory" is wrong.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 107
Summary:
Experiments on Mimosa; effects of immersion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Theodor Gomperz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 61
Summary:
Comments on Expression. Suggests solutions to some of CD’s unresolved problems. Widens the "Principle of Association", whereby gestures associated with one emotion can also come to accompany a second emotion. Confirms the occurrence of blushing in the dark. Considers CD’s use of the "principle of Conservation of Force"; outlines its larger applications.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 302
Summary:
Fritz Müller is now working on the Brazilian honey-bees (Melipona and Trigona).
HM thanks CD for fertilisation references.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Strachey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 264
Summary:
Reports that grapes are spoiled by rain at vintage time and that damaged grapes, whose "bloom" is not intact, are particularly susceptible.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project