From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 63
Summary:
Beginning work on his African travels [The African sketch-book (1873)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Leslie Sutherland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 320
Summary:
Sends CD a book on mule breeding in Poitou [Eugène Ayrault, De l’industrie mulassière en Poitou (1867)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
[after 12] Sept 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Darwin Misc. Letters 8)
Summary:
Note authorising James West to collect Transactions on CD’s behalf.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 94
Summary:
J. J. Moulinié is ill in Geneva, but translations of Origin and Descent progress.
Will undertake to publish translation of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Pleasance Smith
To:
Robert Kippist
Date:
16 Sep 1872
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/19/70, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
At present unable to locate [Alexander] Macleay's correspondence but when she does will send them. Thanks for portait of Macleay; in return sends photographic copy of [John] Opie's 1798 portrait of her.
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
17 Sept [1872?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Orders sulphuric ether, nitric ether, chloroform, and prussic acid [for Drosera experiments? See Insectivorous plants, pp. 209, 219].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 95
Summary:
J. J. Moulinié’s mental faculties are much weakened.
Fortunately Descent and Origin are completely translated except the indexes.
A new translator will be needed for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry A. Head
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 126
Summary:
Impressions of Duluth and the natural history of its environs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
18 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:
CD sends schedule for VOK’s visit to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 21
Summary:
Disputes Thomas Meehan’s observations on the hardiness of exposed buds, and believes bud-scales are for the protection of the bud-leaves. Reiterates his opinion that the phyllotaxy of a plant is determined by causes acting when the leaves are crowded into close contact. Attempts to explain how a different phyllotaxy on the upper and lower parts of the same shoot could have arisen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 67
Summary:
His visit to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Cooper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 223
Summary:
Requests financial support for horticultural researches, which, he promises, will enormously increase yields.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
23 Sept 1872
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 88–89)
Summary:
Thanks JVC for his History of zoology [Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Charl. Darwin (1872)]. Considers the title one of the greatest honours ever paid him.
Reports on foreign orders for the heliotype plates of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
23 Sept 1872
Source of text:
Moulinié trans. 1873, pp. ix–x
Summary:
States his reasons for authorising JJM to translate the Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 22
Summary:
Thanks for letter, in which CD cited [Anton] Kerner’s alpine observations.
Describes with diagrams the curious disposition of leaves on some Acacia twigs, and points out that his theory should account for these anomalies as well as normal cases.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
24 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:
Sends proof-sheets [of Expression].
Is unwell and must stop work and leave home for a time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 121
Summary:
Acting as Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Observations on worm-castings in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 96
Summary:
Printing and translation of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Félix Joseph Henri (Henri) de Lacaze-Duthiers
Date:
28 Sept 1872
Source of text:
Archives de l’Académie des sciences, Paris (27 J Fonds Lacaze-Duthiers)
Summary:
Thanks HdeL-D for two papers on Ascidians [by A. Giard in Arch. Zool. 1 (1872): 233–88; 397–428].
Some of the expressions in HdeL-D’s paper ["Direction des études zoologiques", Arch. Zool. 1 (1872): 1–64] made CD think he accepted the principle of evolution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Date:
[after 30 Sept 1872]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 148)
Summary:
Requesting two books by Lionel Smith Beale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project