From George Hookham 6 May [1873]
Summary
A fact on expression: sheep do use hoofs in fighting.
Author: | George Hookham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 266 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7742 |
To [W. W. Baxter?] 11 May [1873]
Summary
Requests litmus paper and gum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 11 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Herter Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8319 |
From George Cupples 1 May 1873
Summary
Missed hostile review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Agrees it might be by J. H. Stirling [see 8935], who has written in a deplorably polemical style on Huxley and Sir William Hamilton.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 298 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8891 |
To Federico Delpino 1 May 1873
Summary
Asks whether, in Italy, varieties of Lathyrus odoratus, Pisum sativum, and Phaseolus multiflorus must be grown separately to come true.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 1 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8892 |
To Isidoro Dell’Oro 2 May 1873
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending him an account of silkworms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Isidoro Dell’Oro |
Date: | 2 May 1873 |
Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 02.014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8893 |
To John Tyndall 2 [May] 1873
Summary
Hopes JT does not think him over-cautious in requesting the return of the copies [of Huxley’s letter]. Has sent Huxley a list of the subscribers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 2 [May] 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 19 (EH 88205957) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8894 |
From Gerard Krefft 3 May 1873
Summary
Suggests hopping lizards may show the connection between reptiles and birds as proposed by Huxley.
Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8895 |
From T. H. Farrer 3 May 1873
Summary
Hopes affairs will enable him to get back to flowers.
Huxley’s letter [about the fund raised for him] was noble. Would like to have seen CD’s to him.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8896 |
To John Murray 4 May [1873]
Summary
Asks Murray not to announce Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 May [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 436 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8897 |
To ? 4 May [1873]
Summary
Explains that his publisher has erred in announcing his book [Cross and self-fertilisation] prematurely. [See 8890 and 8897.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 4 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8897A |
To A. W. Bennett 5 May [1873]
Summary
Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | 5 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8898 |
To Felix von Luschan 5 May 1873
Summary
Thanks FL for sending his essays and some photographs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix von Luschan |
Date: | 5 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. Felix v. Luschan: Darwin, Charles) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8899 |
From K. E. von Baer 5 May 1873
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.
Author: | Karl Ernst von Baer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8900 |
To Hermann Müller 5 May 1873
Summary
Comments on HM’s book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Particularly glad to read historical sketch and discussion of work of C. K. Sprengel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 5 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 434 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8901 |
To William Ogle 5 May [1873]
Summary
Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung den Blumen durch Insekten (1873).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 5 May [1873] |
Classmark: | James P. Evans (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8901F |
From W. F. Barrett 6 May 1873
Summary
Because of current interest in hereditary instinct, relates incident about a baby alligator, just emerged from its shell, attempting to bite a human.
Author: | William Fletcher Barrett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8902 |
To T. B. Leffen 7 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for note and information.
Mentions venomous caterpillars in Africa and Australia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Bray Leffen |
Date: | 7 May 1873 |
Classmark: | State Library Victoria, Melbourne (MS 6219, Box 231/3. Diary of G. F. Belcher vol. 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8903 |
To W. M. Canby 7 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for the Dionaea leaves. They support CD’s anticipation that they are adapted to let the smaller fry escape [see Insectivorous plants, p. 312].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Marriott Canby |
Date: | 7 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Natural History Society of Delaware |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8904 |
From A. W. Bennett 8 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller on fertilisation [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Publication plans.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8905 |
To J. V. Carus 8 May [1873]
Summary
John Murray has announced his next book [Cross and self-fertilisation] without CD’s knowledge. It is only half-written. JVC will hear when it is published and will decide whether it is worth translating. It will be dry, but, CD believes, of value.
Has read an account of JVC’s Scottish lectures.
Invites JVC to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 8 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 104–105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8906 |
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Mostyn Owen, Arthur | (2) |
Baer, K. E. von | (1) |
Baker, A. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Müller, Hermann | (2) |
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Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (45) |
Müller, Hermann | (5) |
Bennett, A. W. | (2) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |