From:
unknown
To:
Secretary of the Royal Society
Date:
27 February 1873
Source of text:
MM/11/51, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
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
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:
?
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[28 May 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1995
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 24
Summary:
HA’s paper on leaf arrangement is almost ready; asks CD to communicate it to the Royal Society. Seeks permission to quote from CD’s notes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 25
Summary:
Has sent phyllotaxy paper to G. G. Stokes with the letter from CD to show credentials.
Will not have time to read new Sachs edition CD offered.
Thanks for CD’s sponsorship of paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1873): 176–9].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 26
Summary:
Thanks for congratulations on appearance of abstract of HA’s paper [Nature 7 (1873): 343–4].
Explains again his theory of "contraction with twist" by which compact buds and a spiral phyllotaxy have evolved. Explains how the peculiar phyllotaxy of the teasel is explicable by this process of "condensation".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Sept-Nov] 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 31
Summary:
The Royal Society referees have rejected HA’s phyllotaxy paper, and it will not be printed in Philosophical Transactions. HA is not sorry for he has found new facts which limit the applicability of his views. Now believes that the original leaf arrangement was not necessarily always two-ranked but rather that existing arrangements have developed from a variety of forms with differing numbers of leaf-ranks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 27
Summary:
Illustrates, with reference to different species of Gasteria, the role of twisting in the development of leaf arrangement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bushell Anningson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 73
Summary:
Comments on the form and function of a muscle in the rectal region of animals.
Discusses the scratching action of dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Augustus Tulk
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 March 1873
Source of text:
VPRS 802/P0/3, p. 50, No 29 Librarian's outward registered correspondence, 1864-1957, VA 913 Public Library of Victoria, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Port Ayres
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 137
Summary:
Has been discussing spontaneous generation with William Robinson of the Garden. Reports having found grubs that developed in an undamaged, hard-boiled egg. Has similarly treated eggs if CD wants to investigate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Ernst von Baer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 15
Summary:
Has been told CD wants photo of him; sends one. Requests a portrait photo of CD for his album. KEvB apologises for his English and his shaky hand; he is 88 years old.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Augustine FitzGerald Baker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 19
Summary:
Calls CD’s attention to the fact that Huxley’s view [in Lessons in elementary physiology (1866)] of lymphatic fluid as overflow from blood supports CD’s view of secretion of tears in Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Denison Baldwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 21
Summary:
Has studied CD’s books and accepts evolution without giving up belief in creation of first forms.
On theory in Descent, suggests offspring of the original [human] progenitor dispersed before a human stage arrived at; this would account for races and languages with no discernible common origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 22
Summary:
Suggests raising money to help Anton Dohrn complete the Naples Zoological Station, which is in danger of remaining unfinished.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Balfour, G. W.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[27 March 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 314
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Balfour, G. W.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[30 June 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 315
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Fletcher Barrett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 46
Summary:
Because of current interest in hereditary instinct, relates incident about a baby alligator, just emerged from its shell, attempting to bite a human.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 89, 90
Summary:
Encloses A. R. Wallace’s reply [in which he says he will undertake revision of Descent if CD wishes]. HWB says this shows that Wallace is unaware of the scope of revision; suggests need for well-defined terms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
