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
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 257–8
Summary:
Is drawing up the account of his crossing experiments. Requests JDH to add the families after nine genera, the names of which he encloses. Whenever there is no objection he would like to arrange the families in some sort of natural order.
Recommends Spalding’s article on instinct in Macmillan’s Magazine [27 (1873): 265–81].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
Date:
17 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828)
Summary:
Is glad JLGK has been interested in Descent.
Thanks him for his observations on monkey behaviour [see 8698]
and drawings of skulls, which CD has sent to George Busk.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Heinrich Schaible
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 48
Summary:
Sends copy of Vinzenz Czerny [Beziehungen der Chirurgie (1872)], which applies Darwinian principles to pathology.
Recommends illustrations dealing with expression in the Atlas of K. H. Baumgärtner’s Kranken-Physiognomik [1839].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
18 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 14
Summary:
Thanks for information on worm-castings. Comments on disintegration of castings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Marriott Canby
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
The Society of Natural History of Delaware
Summary:
CD would like to know what were the sizes of insects caught by the older leaves of Dionaea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Richmond Clephan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 87: 53
Summary:
Reports that he has the power of moving his left ear towards the top of his head [see Descent 1: 21].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b.7, fasc. 28, doc. 5)
Summary:
Thanks for gift of first part of AG’s magnificent work [Animaux fossiles du mont Léberon (1873)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Franz Xaver Neumann von Spallart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 172: 15
Summary:
The editor of a supplement to the New Free Press to be published during the next Vienna Exhibition, asks CD to contribute a few columns on any topic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (22 April 2020, lot 47289)
Summary:
Thanks for a photograph of a donkey and children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sophia E. De Morgan
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1873]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.442
Summary:
Letters arrived on Monday and will be kept safe. Feels envious at Miss Herschel's forthcoming visit to Rome. Mentions a friend she may meet there. Work progresses slowly.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
19 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (9 May 2012, lot 849)
Summary:
Orders a copy of the St Paul’s Magazine for February.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Laura Mary Forster
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
20 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 159
Summary:
Recommends a language teacher.
Remarks on expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 149–50
Summary:
Delighted with John Traherne Moggridge’s book [Harvesting ants (1873)].
Has suggested he plant seeds in various receptacles. Only two explanations for failure of seeds to germinate [in ants’ nests]: lack of circulating air or formic acid.
Has undertaken a botany primer for Macmillan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 259–60
Summary:
Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.
Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 172: 60
Summary:
Comments on CD’s and William Huggins’ letter in Nature on "Inherited instinct" [Collected papers 2: 170–1]
and on A. R. Wallace’s letter on the homing faculty of animals. Believes many instances of homing are less remarkable than they appear.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Frederick Collier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 210
Summary:
Sends pamphlet on punishment in education [Punishments in education, read at Social Science Congress, 1872] in response to Expression. Proposes that character can be diagnosed from expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Royle Martin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 55
Summary:
CD is asked to increase his shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co. Ltd., which has trebled its capital in the last year and is paying a 6% dividend.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project