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FVM-73-02-28a

From:
Daniel Ploos van Amstel
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 February 1873
Source of text:
M73/3688, 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
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FL-1294

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
28 February [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 557
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-73-02-28

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 February 1873
Source of text:
British Library, London, Alfred Russel Wallace papers, additional manuscripts 46435, f. 262
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP2294

From:
Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller (formally Müller)
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 February 1873
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 262-263
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8791

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 299
Summary:

Sends his book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Hopes CD will publish an opinion of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5686

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
28 February 1873
Source of text:
McGill University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8714F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–15 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 10
Summary:

Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn’t suit him. May go to Pryor’s on Sunday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-73-03-01a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 March 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81. f. 76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9198

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Mar 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 132
Summary:

Fears [CD’s] albumen theory will not work because albumen is coagulated and filtered out in making extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamine, and colchicine [alkaloid poisons].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9199

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Mar 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 133
Summary:

Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8795

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 318
Summary:

Thanks for Expression. Will write paper on it in next [July] West Riding Asylum Medical Report.

Sends photos of lunatics;

will send notes corroborative of CD’s views, including some on "hereditarily transmitted movements".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8703F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Agnes Huschke; Agnes Haeckel
Date:
[before 3 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A [34831])
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0005

From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
3 March 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 26
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-8796

From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 109
Summary:

Although he believes in evolution, TM feels that natural selection is an inadequate cause;

nor is he satisfied with E. D. Cope’s law of acceleration and retardation.

Discusses some of his work relating to nutrition and sex and colour and sex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8703

From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 105
Summary:

Praise for and detailed comments on Expression.

Two cases of coloration in animals – one from sexual selection, the other helping to procure prey [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 542–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000601

From:
unknown
To:
Secretary of the Royal Society
Date:
4 March 1873
Source of text:
MM/11/52, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-8798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
4 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 343
Summary:

Pleased that JC-B will review Expression.

Fears he will not be able to improve the book with JC-B’s "wonderfully curious" photographs because Murray printed such a large edition.

Would be glad to have JC-B’s notes on inheritance – "a most important subject".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-73-03-04a

From:
George Verdon
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 March 1873
Source of text:
L73/4327, 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-8797

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 99
Summary:

Recounts the difficulties in preparing the French translation of Origin: the 1870 war, the illness and death of J. J. Moulinié, the alterations and additions from the 6th English edition. Despite competition from Royer’s three editions, Reinwald is contemplating a new edition.

Descent, vol. 1, has almost sold out. Offers CD £40 for rights to reprint a corrected version of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8799

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 9
Summary:

Distressed by the poor health of GHD and Horace. Asks them to come home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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