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DCP-LETT-8201A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Enrico Hillyer Giglioli
Date:
6 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Andrusier Autographs (dealer) (22 November 2013)
Summary:

Thanks his Italian colleague for articles on the skull of a chimpanzee.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8759

From:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 30
Summary:

Cannot find a publisher for Italian translation of Expression. Gives up the project.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8760

From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 62
Summary:

Would like a museum set up illustrating origins, varieties, and uses of domestic animals; seeks CD’s approval of the idea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5490

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 February [1873]
Source of text:
Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution: MSS 001486 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8761

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 328
Summary:

Forwards Matthew Arnold’s Literature and dogma [1873].

Hopes they can secure Hooker for President of Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1474

From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[8 February 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1729
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-8762

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Matthew Arnold
Date:
9 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 1
Summary:

Thanks MA for his Literature and dogma [1873].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8763

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 435
Summary:

Encloses cheque for 1000 guineas, CD’s share of profits on first 7000 copies of Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8763F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
11 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Thinks FBG’s idea of a room at the British Museum of domestic birds and animals an excellent one, but a collection of plants would be much more difficult.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8763G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Date:
11 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Kotte Autographs (dealers) (30 October 2008)
Summary:

Is sorry that CIFM has had to give up translating Expression into Italian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1293

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
12 February 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258: 556
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1431

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[12 February 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1269
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-73-02-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Duncan Gillies
Date:
12 February 1873
Source of text:
K73/2674, unit 750, VPRS 44/P inward registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8765

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 13 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 13 February 1873, pp. 281–2
Summary:

Sends a letter from William Huggins about a case of inherited fright in three generations of mastiffs. Discusses the different origins of instincts and their inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8793

From:
Eustace Maclean Swanwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 325
Summary:

Gives a case of peculiar behaviour in cats that apparently is inherited.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE484

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
14 Feb 1873
Source of text:
27, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-8767

From:
Mariabella Hodgkin; Mariabella Fry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 220
Summary:

Remarks on the "grief-muscles" shown in a Dürer picture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8766

From:
Francis Galton
To:
William Huggins
Date:
15 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 105: A72–3
Summary:

Returns family documents about "Kepler" [William Huggins’ dog, see Collected papers 2: 170–1]; there is still some sort of investigation into the "precise mental condition" of "Kepler" and his relatives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5511

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Edwards
Date:
15 February 1873
Source of text:
West Virginia State Archives: William Henry Edwards Collection (MS 79-2), Correspondence 23, 307
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3998

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther
Date:
16 February 1873
Source of text:
  • Moser Library, Shrewsbury School: Darwinia, Wallace & Huxley letters no. 34
  • Gunther, A. E. (1975). In: A Century of Zoology at the British Museum Through the Lives of Two Keepers, 1815-1914. London: Dawson & Sons Ltd. [p. 316]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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