From:
William Honnywill Hall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 123
Summary:
Asks CD about the origin of certain expressions in man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
Date:
5 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (James Needham Papers: Collection 21-23-479, Box 3: 28)
Summary:
Thanks for HR’s valuable remarks about Expression, and returns HRs copy, signed.
Discusses some of HR’s anecdotes about children sucking their tongues.
Admits that the youth who trembled so that he could not reload his gun after killing his first snipe was himself, when a school-boy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
5 March 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.1, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH discusses exchanging plants with Lady Hyacinth Jardine [later Hooker]. He would be glad to accept large quantities of Gualtheria [Gaultheria] Shallon & instructs how they should be selected & packed for transport. He would also like some Rhododendron hybrids, Primula farinosa & roots of Typha angustifolia for the pond. JDH recommends that Sir William [Jardine] cultivate small palms. JDH plans to take his wife Frances Hooker [née Henslow] to the south of France & hopes the warmer climate will help her recovery from influenza. If the Jardine's gardener can supply it JDH would like moss for packing & Sphagnum for orchids & will send plants in exchange.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
5 March 1873
Source of text:
McGill University
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
6 March 1873
Source of text:
MM/14/220, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[6 March 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 573
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6? March 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
6 March 1873
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London: MS 140a-8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Frederick Collier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 211
Summary:
Opposes all corporal punishment. Pleased CD agrees with his pamphlet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 82
Summary:
Insists that suckling babies pound and scratch mothers’ breasts. Perhaps CD’s evidence to the contrary comes from ladies, who only expose small portion of bosom, as opposed to working-class women.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
F. B Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 183–4
Summary:
Various observations on sexual selection portion of Descent – ostriches, rosy-billed duck, egrets, rails, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 173
Summary:
Thanks CD for one of his books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Casey
Date:
10 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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
10 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 379
Summary:
Much obliged for seeds. Will expose seeds to chemical vapours.
Comments on JTM’s spider experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Frederic Hislop Elliot
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Mar 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 17
Summary:
Instinctive responses in animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
11 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.438)
Summary:
Asks about woodblocks of illustrations for Climbing plants [1875].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (106)
Summary:
Astonished by Agassiz’s argument; has sent AG’s memorandum to Nature [see 8786].
Is working on cross- and self-fertilising plants and has temporarily stopped work on Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gotthold Heinrich Otto (Otto) Caspari
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 117
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of his book [Die Urgeschichte der Menschheit, 2 vols. (1873)].
In Germany CD’s views have achieved great recognition among naturalists, but in other disciplines there is great controversy. OC’s book seeks to resolve the controversy by showing how state, morals, religion, and church have developed from natural beginnings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 13 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 13 March 1873, p. 360
Summary:
Recounts instances suggesting that animals have a sense of direction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:
13 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS.Add. 7652/III I.11)
Summary:
Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project