From John Chapman 19 July 1873
Summary
Asks CD to meet with Dr Wild to discuss the Westminster Review, which CD has supported.
Quotes from Alexander Kennedy on Maori observations on competition between native New Zealand birds and introduced bees for nectar of tree blossoms.
Author: | John Chapman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 July 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 132, 132/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8983 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From John Chapman 19 July 1873 …
- … 161: 132, 132/1 John Chapman London, Somerset St, 25 19 July 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the birds, and so caused their death. ” New Zealand . By Alexander Kennedy. London: 1873. …
- … population of the Maories, citing Kennedy 1873 , in Descent 2d ed, pp. 184–5 and n. 41. …
- … for the journal’s need to raise £800 in 1873, see Ashton 2008 , pp. 294–5, and Rosenberg …
- … Campbell, 29 July [1869] ). In Kennedy 1873 , p. 17, the text quoted is followed by a …
- … S t . , | Portman Square. | W. 19 July 1873 Dear Sir, Referring to your kindness in the …
- … John Murray. 1871. Kennedy, Alexander. 1873. New Zealand. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. …
To J. D. Hague 3 April [1873]
Summary
Has sent JDH’s letter to Nature ["Perception in ants", Nature 7 (1873): 443–4].
Sons recall kindness received from JDH and others in America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Duncan Hague |
Date: | 3 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 394 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8840 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hague 3 April [1873] …
- … Robert Darwin London, Montague St, 16 Down letterhead 3 Apr [1873] James Duncan Hague …
- … Nature ["Perception in ants", Nature 7 (1873): 443–4]. Sons recall kindness received from …
- … 19). See letter to G. H. Darwin, [3 April 1873] and n. 2. Hague had met CD in London in …
- … this letter and the letter from J. D. Hague, 26 February 1873 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hague, 26 February 1873 . See …
- … second letter to Nature , [before 3 April 1873]. CD discussed the ability of ants to …
From Anton Dohrn 27 January 1873
Summary
The Naples Zoological Station and its library are growing fast. His life is a constant battle with the municipality, but has managed to make a little progress on vertebrate ancestry and morphology. His views get further away from what is generally accepted.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8750 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Anton Dohrn 27 January 1873 …
- … DAR 162: 212 Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn Naples 27 Jan 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Dohrn, Anton. 1873. The Zoological Station at …
- … Naples. Nature , 29 May 1873, p. 81. Dohrn, Anton. 1875. Der Ursprung der Wirbelthiere und …
- … Napoli. Palazzo Torlonia. 27. Jan. 1873. My dear Sir! It is only now, that Your great …
- … On Dohrn’s trip to Germany in December 1872 and January 1873, see Heuss 1991 , pp. 132–5. …
- … s work with Anelasma , see the letter from Anton Dohrn, 7 June 1873 . The laboratories …
- … of the zoological station opened in October 1873, and the …
- … aquarium in December 1873 ( Heuss 1991 , pp. 153, 156). Dohrn had visited Down on 26 …
- … In his report in Nature ( Dohrn 1873 ), Dohrn reported that Prussia and Italy had both …
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9199 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [after March 1873] …
- … 58.1: 133 Francis Darwin London, Queen Anne St, 6 [after Mar 1873] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … The date is established by the publication of Klein et al. 1873 in …
- … late March 1873 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
- … 1 April 1873, p. 222; see n. …
- … letter from Francis Darwin, [after March 1873] and n. 2. Francis Darwin refers to Dalton …
- … Digestion and secretion’ in Klein et al. 1873, p. 422. Francis refers to Alfred Baring …
From J. T. Moggridge 1 February 1873
Summary
He does not accept Wallace’s definition of instinct because it excludes "inherited experience", i.e., "knowledge acquired by and transmitted through ancestors".
House-flies do not seem to have an instinctive fear of trap-door spiders.
Miss Forster gives him news of CD.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8756 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From J. T. Moggridge 1 February 1873 …
- … DAR 171: 217 John Traherne Moggridge Mentone 1 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Moggridge, John Traherne. 1873. Harvesting ants and trap-door spiders: notes …
- … building in trapdoor spiders (see Moggridge 1873 , pp. 128–30). Laura Mary Forster was a …
- … her observations on ants in Algiers ( Moggridge 1873 , p. 52). The enclosure has not been …
- … Gastaldy | Mentone | ( France ) 1 Feb. | 1873 My dear M r . Darwin Your most kind letter …
- … ants and trap-door spiders ( Moggridge 1873 ) and wrote ‘it seems to me capital’ ( letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 27 January [1873] ). Alfred Russel Wallace’s definition of instinct …
From J. D. Hooker 25 November 1873
Summary
He has noticed that Mimosa albida leaves closed only partially. It can be objected to CD’s theory that, if true, all, or at least more, species would close their leaves on application of water, unless he can show special injury done to M. albida by water.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 183, 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9160 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 25 November 1873 …
- … DAR 103: 183, 186 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 25 Nov 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 November 1873 and n. 1. Hooker refers to Mimosa albida . …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 November 1873 and n. 2. See letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 24 November 1873 . CD had queried whether the seeds Hooker had sent him …
- … London was inaugurated at the anniversary dinner on 1 December 1873 (see letter from T. …
- … H. Huxley, 3 December 1873 and n. 2). For CD’s difficulties with Mimosa …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 November 1873 . The postcard has not been found. Hooker …
From James Crichton-Browne 2 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for Expression. Will write paper on it in next [July] West Riding Asylum Medical Report.
Sends photos of lunatics;
will send notes corroborative of CD’s views, including some on "hereditarily transmitted movements".
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8795 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From James Crichton-Browne 2 March 1873 …
- … 318 James Crichton-Browne West Riding Asylum, Wakefield 2 Mar 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … under the photograph. See letter to James Crichton-Browne, 28 February [1873] and n. 2. …
- … Press. 1985–. Crichton-Browne, James. 1873. Nitrite of amyl in epilepsy. West Riding …
- … Riding Asylum, | Wakefield. 2 nd. March 1873. My dear Sir, If you could see my face at the …
- … letter to James Crichton-Browne, 28 February [1873] and n 4, and Correspondence vol. 20, …
- … the Metropolitan Asylum, Leavesden, Hertfordshire ( Medical directory 1873), appeared in …
- … the April 1873 issue ( Journal of Mental Science n.s. …
- … 49 (1873): 93–122). In his paper on the use of nitrite of amyl in the treatment of …
- … Expression , pp. 325–6; Crichton-Browne 1873 , p. 153). The photographs are probably …
- … from D r J. Crichton Browne | March 4 th 1873 | Perhaps of no direct use— | The insane …
To F. P. Cobbe? 18 March [1873?]
Summary
CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
Date: | 18 Mar [1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8814 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To F. P. Cobbe? 18 March [1873? ] …
- … DAR 96: 168 Charles Robert Darwin unstated 18 Mar [1873? ] Frances Power Cobbe …
- … assistants, which Lubbock proposed in April 1873, and the campaign to amend the Married …
- … debates 3d ser. (1830–91), vol. 215 (1873), cols. 466–7, and vol. 218 (1874), col. …
- … of Cobbe’s residence in Beckenham in 1873 (see n. 3, below). John Lubbock was MP for …
- … were in London on 18 March were 1872 and 1873. The petition was probably intended to be …
- … by local communities between 1870 and 1873 in support of the Women’s Disabilities ( …
- … Commons Reports on Public Petitions 89 (1873)). The bill was designed to extend the vote …
- … it was scheduled for debate on 1 May, and in 1873, Bright proposed a second reading on 30 …
- … helped organise local petitions. In spring 1873, Cobbe moved temporarily to Thayer’s Park …
From G. H. Darwin [before 3 October 1873]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9084 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From G. H. Darwin [before 3 October 1873] …
- … 28 George Howard Darwin New University Club [before 3 Oct 1873] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … between this letter and the letter to G. H. Darwin, 3 October [1873] . CD had …
- … published a letter in Nature , 25 September 1873, pp. 431–2, headed ‘On the males and …
- … see letter to Nature , 20 September [1873]). George’s draft has not been found, but was a …
- … of organs (see letter from G. H. Darwin to Nature , 4 October [1873]). George took …
- … at Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1873 ( ODNB ). Leonard Darwin was working at the …
- … at Down House. Andrew Clark began treating both CD and George in 1873 (see letter from …
- … Andrew Clark, 3 September 1873 , and letter from G. …
- … H. Darwin, [1 October 1873] ). Edmund Langton was George’s cousin. …
To J. D. Hooker 4 August [1873]
Summary
Starts tomorrow for visit to Farrer and Effie [Euphemia Farrer, daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood]. Has not done such a feat [i.e., staying as a guest of someone outside the immediate family?] for 25 years.
Has been half killing himself with Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 268–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9000 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 4 August [1873] …
- … DAR 94: 268–9 Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Aug [1873] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 August 1873 and n. 1). CD had resumed his experiments …
- … from mid-June (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II) and letter to J. V. Carus, 2 August [1873] ). …
- … this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 August 1873 . CD visited Thomas Henry …
- … Euphemia (Effie) Farrer from 5 to 9 August 1873; he visited William Erasmus Darwin from 9 …
- … and Hooker visited Down on 23 August 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Hooker had …
To Hubert Airy [before 21 January 1873]
Summary
Sends HA’s paper ["On leaf arrangement"] with a supporting note [from CD] to Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | [before 21 Jan 1873] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS. Add. 7656: RS899) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8744 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Hubert Airy [before 21 January 1873] …
- … Library (MS. Add. 7656: RS899) Charles Robert Darwin Down [before 21 Jan 1873] Hubert Airy …
- … Bibliography Airy, Hubert. 1873. On leaf-arrangement. Abstract. …
- … by Charles Darwin. [Read 27 February 1873. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Hubert Airy, 21 January 1873 . CD …
- … communicated Airy’s paper on phyllotaxy ( Airy 1873 ) to the Royal Society of London . CD …
- … See letter from Hubert Airy, 3 January 1873 . The copy is written on the back of a letter …
From William Ogle [after 5 May 1873]
Summary
Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller’s book on fertilisation [Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 5 May 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8705 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From William Ogle [after 5 May 1873] …
- … DAR 173: 7 William Ogle Oxford and Cambridge Club [after 5 May 1873] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … for reference to Hermann Müller’s book on fertilisation [ Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. …
- … Bibliography Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten und die …
- … and the letter to William Ogle, 5 May [1873] . CD had recommended Hermann Müller’s book on …
- … the fertilisation of plants by means of insects ( H. Müller 1873 ; see letter to …
- … William Ogle, 5 May [1873] ). In 1876, Ogle made botanical observations while visiting the …
To M. D. Conway 12 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks for strange debate, which CD returns. Principle of evolution has first-rate supporters in [Edward Sylvester?] Morse and Theodore Nicholas Gill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
Date: | 12 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9051 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To M. D. Conway 12 September [1873] …
- … Finney Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Sept [1873] Moncure Daniel Conway …
- … letter and the letter from M. D. Conway, 10 September [1873] ). See letter from M. …
- … D. Conway, 10 September [1873] . See letter from M. …
- … D. Conway, 10 September [1873] and n. 2. George Clinton Swallow had challenged CD’s …
- … letter from M. D. Conway, 10 September [1873] and n. 4); in the discussion following …
- … had defended CD’s arguments (see New York Tribune , 23 August 1873, p. 2). Emma Darwin’ …
- … that Henry Willey , CD’s physician, visited on 5 September 1873. See letter from M. …
- … D. Conway, 10 September [1873] and n. 2. Conway’s book was published under the title …
To Friedrich Max Müller 3 July 1873
Summary
Thanks FMM for his "Lectures [on Mr Darwin’s philosophy of language", Fraser’s Mag. n.s. 7 (1873): 525–41, 659–78].
CD is not worthy to be FMM’s adversary as he knows very little about language and, being fully convinced man is descended from some lower animal, he is forced to believe a priori that language has developed from inarticulate cries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Max Müller |
Date: | 3 July 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 425 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8962 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Friedrich Max Müller 3 July 1873 …
- … DAR 146: 425 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 July 1873 Friedrich Max Müller …
- … Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See letter from Friedrich Max Müller, 29 June 1873 and n. 1. …
- … See letter from Friedrich Max Müller, 29 June 1873 and n. 2. …
- … philosophy of language", Fraser’s Mag. n.s. 7 (1873): 525–41, 659–78]. CD is not worthy to …
- … Down July 3. 1873 Dear Sir, I am much obliged for your kind note and present of your …
To Eduard Koch 20 December [1873]
Summary
Thanks for copy of translation of Variation
and the "admirable work on the microscopical structure of rock" [C. G. Ehrenberg, Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Date: | 20 Dec [1873] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9186 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Eduard Koch 20 December [1873] …
- … collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Dec [1873] Eduard Koch E. Schweizerbart’sche …
- … the microscopical structure of rock" [C. G. Ehrenberg, Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)]. …
- … Bibliography Rosenbusch, Harry. 1873–7. Mikroskopische Physiographie der Mineralien und …
- … edition of Variation (Carus trans. 1873) and to the first volume of Harry Rosenbusch’s …
- … and rocks, published by Koch’s firm, E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagshandlung, in 1873 ( …
- … Rosenbusch 1873–7 ). The first volume has not been found, but the second volume is in the …
From Hermann Müller 19 May 1873
Summary
Praises Expression.
Reports on Fritz Müller’s observations of cross- and self-fertilisation. HM will cultivate the two forms [i.e., mainly self-fertilised and mainly cross-fertilised] in the way CD has described.
He continues his observation of wild flowers. Encloses drawing of Viola tricolor with notes on its self-fertility.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B181–2, DAR 77: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8907 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From Hermann Müller 19 May 1873 …
- … 139 Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller Lippstadt 19 May 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter from Hermann Müller, 27 May 1873 . The page numbers refer to the manuscript …
- … a copy of Expression in return for Müller’s gift of H. Müller 1873 (see letter from …
- … Hermann Müller, 28 February 1873 ). CD had evidently asked Müller the same …
- … letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 15 May 1873 ) in a now missing letter. Müller refers to …
- … Garland Publishing. 1990. Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten …
- … the letter from Hermann Müller, 27 May 1873 . The reference is probably to Anton Kerner …
- … plant fertilisation (Kerner von Marilaun 1873). CD evidently sent a copy of Bennett …
- … Mr. Bennett in the article May 15, 1873 of the “Nature”, you allude to, has published the …
- … There is paper by A. W. Bennett Nature 1873 May 15 th p. 49. on the Fert of Wild …
- … of flowers by means of insects ( H. Müller 1873 ), including some species of Viola ( …
- … of Müller’s observations ( H. Müller 1873 , p. 118). Norman Lockyer was the editor of …
- … on after the publication of H. Müller 1873 was added to the English translation of …
From Hermann Müller 1 July 1873
Summary
Sends a note on R. Caspary’s observations of Corydalis self-fertilisation [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 331].
Has begun his experiments on the self- and cross-fertilised flowers.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8961 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From Hermann Müller 1 July 1873 …
- … B184 Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller Lippstadt 1 July 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … on Viola tricolor in his letter of 10 June 1873 . CD discussed the self-sterility of …
- … Henneschen Buchhandlung. Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten …
- … Lippstadt, July 1. 1873. My dear Sir I thank you very sincerely for your kindness in …
- … found in “Botanische Zeitung 27 Juni 1873. Nr. 26” the following note: “ Sitzungsberichte …
- … have not been identified, but H. Müller 1873 was praised in George Bentham’s anniversary …
- … see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 June 1873 and n. 6). Müller quotes from a report by …
- … 1833 ; see letter from Hermann Müller, 10 June 1873 ). Malva sylvestris (‘silvestris’ is a …
From Ernst Haeckel 8 October 1873
Summary
On CD’s paper ["Complemental males of certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].
Comments on paper by W. H. Dallinger and J. J. Drysdale ["Life history of a Cercomonad", Mon. Microsc. J. 10 (1873): 53–8].
Discusses origin of life, the Gastraea theory and concept that primary germ layers are homologous in all animals. Notes similar views of E. Ray Lankester ["On the primitive cell-layers of the embryo", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 11 (1873): 321–38].
Reception of Darwinism in Germany.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9091 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From Ernst Haeckel 8 October 1873 …
- … DAR 166: 61 Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel Jena 8 Oct 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 11 (1873): 321–38]. Reception of Darwinism in Germany. …
- … history of a Cercomonad", Mon. Microsc. J. 10 (1873): 53–8]. Discusses origin of life, the …
- … original German, see pp. 441–3. See letter to Ernst Haeckel, 25 September 1873 . CD had …
- … a letter in Nature , 25 September 1873, p. 42, headed ‘On the males and complemental …
- … and on rudimentary structures’ (see letter to Nature , 20 September [1873]). Haeckel …
- … also refers to Dallinger and Drysdale 1873 (‘A lesson in biogenesis’). In Haeckel 1866 , …
- … and Magaz. of nat. hist. No 65. Mai 1873 “On the primitive Cell-layers of the Embryo” …
- … and Magaz. of nat. hist. no. 65 May 1873, “On the primitive cell-layers of the embryo” …
- … sterile water (Dallinger and Drysdale 1873, pp. 57–8). Monera, a taxon of unicellular …
- … the English translation was dated 24 June 1873. The term gastrula (an embryo at the stage …
To John Tyndall 18 April [1873]
Summary
The Huxley fund amounts to £1955. CD trembles about THH’s answer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 18 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8867 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To John Tyndall 18 April [1873] …
- … DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Apr [1873] John Tyndall …
- … Anne Huxley . See also letter to subscribers to T. H. Huxley’s gift, [25 April 1873] . …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Tyndall, 16 April 1873 . See …
- … letter from John Tyndall, 16 April 1873 and n. 2. John Lubbock’s bank, Robarts, …
- … also letter to T. H. Huxley, 23 April 1873 . Huxley was in Aberdeen ( letter from T. …
- … H. Huxley to Michael Foster, 22 April 1873 ( Dawson 1946 , p. 51, no. 61)). CD …
To J. D. Hooker 19 August 1873
Summary
Asks JDH to inquire of gardeners at Kew what they think about injury to plants from watering during sunshine. Wishes to experiment. He is already convinced that drops of water do not act as burning lenses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 272–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9017 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 19 August 1873 …
- … 94: 272–3 Charles Robert Darwin Bassett Down letterhead 19 Aug 1873 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … For George Payne’s observations, see the letters from T. H. Farrer, 12 August 1873 and …
- … 12 August [1873] . …
- … Hooker visited Down on 23 August 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Kent. [Bassett, Southampton. ] Aug 19 th 1873 My dear Hooker The next time you walk round …
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Darwin, Francis | (13) |
Darwin, G. H. | (10) |
Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (56) |
Darwin, Francis | (23) |
Darwin, G. H. | (23) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (16) |
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
Summary
Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
Matches: 31 hits
- … and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved …
- … A large portion of the letters Darwin received in 1873 were in response to The expression of the …
- … to have observed” ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] ). Drosera was the main focus of …
- … leaf & branch!” ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 ). Darwin found that the …
- … copy of the Handbook for the physiological laboratory (1873), a detailed guide to animal …
- … Darwin’s other main focus of botanical investigation in 1873 was cross- and self-fertilisation, work …
- … & correlated” ( letter to T. H. Farrer, 14 August 1873 ). Darwin worried, however, that …
- … when it will be ready” ( letter to John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). Keeping it in the family …
- … their burrows” ( letter from Francis Darwin, 14 August [1873] ). In September, Darwin …
- … will be created” ( letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 ). Erasmus, who had studied medicine …
- … work” ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 25 September [1873] ). Shortly afterwards, it was arranged for …
- … 1872 and sold quickly. He wrote to Hooker on 12 January [1873] , “Did I ever boast to you on the …
- … anonymously in the Edinburgh Review in April ([Baynes] 1873). Darwin asked one of his Scottish …
- … before hand” ( letter to George Cupples, 28 April [1873] ). Readers' lives …
- … letter from L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield, 20 February 1873 ). The surgeon Francis Stephen …
- … ( letter to F. S. B. F. de Chaumont, 3 February [1873] ). Some readers proposed alternative …
- … that accompanied sexual intercourse? (letter from ?, [1873?]). The Scottish physician William Main …
- … with the reverse—” ( letter from William Main, 2 April 1873 ). The zoologist Henry Reeks suspected …
- … and good breeding ( letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 ). Robert Swinhoe wrote from Ning …
- … a second dose” ( letter from Robert Swinhoe, 26 March 1873 ). One of the leading …
- … the jaws” ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 16 April 1873 ). Crichton-Browne was trying …
- … the disease ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 30 December 1873 ). Instinct In …
- … to its offspring ( letter from J. T. Moggridge, 1 February 1873 ). Darwin soon became …
- … shops ( letter to Nature , [before 13 February 1873] ). Huggins’s letter prompted replies from …
- … to Nature ( letter to Nature , [before 13 March 1873] ) about a horse who had pulled a mail …
- … with his finger ( letter to Nature , [before 3 April 1873] ). Moggridge suggested the …
- … fellow species” ( letter to Nature , [before 24 July 1873] ). Character and genius …
- … as “utopian” ( letter to Francis Galton, 4 January [1873] ). Continuing the line of research he …
- … money very well” ( letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ). Among character traits, he listed …
- … honest & industrious” ( letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ). Supporting science, …
- … father ( enclosure to letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 December 1873 ). In April, Darwin also …
All Darwin's letters from 1873 go online for the anniversary of Origin
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To celebrate the 158th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species on 24 November, the full transcripts and footnotes of over 500 letters from and to Charles Darwin in 1873 are now available online. Read about Darwin's life in 1873 through his…
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- … of over 500 letters from and to Charles Darwin in 1873 are now available online. We have also …
- … Here are some highlights from Darwin's correspondence in 1873: I do not think any …
- … in Drosera. ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 October [1873] ) In 1873, Darwin continued …
- … work to do ( Letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 ) As well as working on …
- … of them sold! ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] ) Expression of the …
- … brother. ( Letter to T. H. Huxley, 23 April 1873 ) Darwin wrote this to Thomas …
- … and marvellous ( Letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ) Darwin was invited to …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … Darwin was very interested in hay fever. On 14 June [1873] he wrote to Blackley to thank him for …
- … Aestivus (hay-fever or hay-asthma). And on 5 July 1873 Darwin wrote again, saying: ‘The …
- … in every direction. (Letter to C. H. Blackley, 5 July [1873] ) Blackley wrote back …
- … regions of the atmosphere. Blackley wrote on 7 July 1873 that his high altitude experiments had …
- … remained elusive. He wrote to Darwin on 11 July 1873 : The problem of cure has still …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … 5 December 1871 ). When Darwin began writing in February 1873, he asked Hooker for names of …
- … system to follow ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 February 1873 ). Despite also working on experiments with …
- … with this & get it published’ ( To Asa Gray, 11 March [1873] ). In April 1873, the …
- … Translators, Reviewers, &c.’ ( To John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). In reply to his German …
- … when it will be published’ ( To J. V. Carus, 8 May [1873] ). Hermann Müller also wrote from …
- … my further working’ ( From Hermann Müller, 10 June 1873 ). Darwin, in turn, had found Müller’s …
- … them by different routes’ ( To Hermann Müller, 30 May 1873 ). Although Darwin had completed a …
- … must turn to the vegetable kingdom’ In June 1873, Delpino informed Darwin that …
- … to avoid crossing ( From Federico Delpino, 18 June 1873 ). Darwin was intrigued. ‘I am very glad …
- … Bees’, he told Delpino ( To Federico Delpino, 25 June [1873] ). Darwin’s suspicion that sweet peas …
- … his crossing experiments through the early summer, by August 1873, Darwin decided to shift focus …
- … effects of Interbreeding’ ( To J. V. Carus, 2 August [1873] ). In September, Darwin wrote a …
- … conditions of life’ ( To Nature , 20 September [1873] ). Just as the free-swimming barnacle …
- … of their parents’ ( To Fritz Müller, 25 September 1873 ). But by March 1874, some doubts seemed to …
Your letter eternalized before us: From N. D. Doedes, 27 March 1873
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Geoff Belknap looks at his favourite set of letters between two Dutch student fans of Darwin and the photographs they exchanged with each other.
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- … Geoff Belknap looks at his favourite set of letters between two Dutch …
Frank Chance
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The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles but also all sorts of small, dry specimens, mostly enclosed with letters. Many of these enclosures have become separated from the letters or lost altogether,…
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Darwin and religion: a definitive web resource
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I am aware that if we admit a first cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came and how it arose. Charles Darwin to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 Darwin is more famous, and more notorious than ever. Nowhere is this more evident than in the…
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- … Charles Darwin to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 Darwin is more famous, and more …
Francis Galton
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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … including photography, anthropometry, and fingerprinting. In 1873, he proposed founding a society to …
- … difficult to judge on these latter heads” ( 4 January [1873] ). Like most of his contemporaries, …
- … particular inherited talents, except for business ( 28 May 1873 ). Galton grew increasingly …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … Andrew Clark, whom he had been consulting since August 1873. Darwin had originally thought that …
- … had suggested a new edition of the coral book in December 1873, when he realised the difficulty a …
- … vol. 21, letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 17 December [1873] ). Darwin himself had some trouble …
- … of human evolution and inheritance himself. In August 1873, he had published in the Contemporary …
- … the use of the Down schoolroom as a winter reading room in 1873 (see Correspondence , vol. 21, …
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 July [1874] ). In 1873, Hooker had begun a series of …
- … vol. 21, letter from Francis Darwin, [11 October 1873] ). Darwin wasted several weeks in …
- … Moulinié, who had died after a period of ill health in 1873. Edmond Barbier corrected defects in …
- … was a copy of Joseph Simms’s book on physiognomy (Simms 1873), which contained Darwin’s portrait to …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 8701 - Lubbock, E. F . to Darwin, [1873] Ellen Lubbock, wife of naturalist …
- … Letter 8989 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [28 July 1873] Mary Treat reports in detail on her …
- … Letter 8989 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [28 July 1873] Mary Treat provides a detailed …
- … 9156 - Wallace, A. R . to Darwin, [19 November 1873] Wallace reassures Darwin that …
- … 9157 - Darwin to Da rwin, G. H., [20 November 1873] Darwin offers the work of …
- … Letter 8719 - Darwin to Treat, M., [1 January 1873] Darwin gives Mary Treat close …
- … 9157 - Darwin to Da rwin, G. H., [20 November 1873] Darwin offers the work of …
Language: key letters
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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … 8962: Darwin, C. R. to Max Müller, Friedrich, 3 July 1873 In the 1870s, Darwin corresponded …
Francis Darwin
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Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences. Francis completed…
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- … work” (letter from E. A. Darwin, 25 September [1873] ). Shortly afterwards, it was arranged for …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … in different species of Gasteria , 7 December 1873 F. F. Hallett's rough sketch …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
4.23 Gegeef, 'Battle Field of Science'
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< Back to Introduction Another satirical print by ‘Gegeëf’, The Battle Field of Science and the Churches, is signed and dated 30 November 1873. It survives as a foldout plate in a twopenny journal, The Gauntlet, which, like Our National Church and…
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- … Science and the Churches , is signed and dated 30 November 1873. It survives as a foldout plate …
- … not to have progressed beyond its first issue of December 1873. A detached and damaged copy of The …
- … (pseudonym) date of creation 30 November 1873 computer-readable date 1873-11 …
- … references and bibliography The Gauntlet 1 (Dec. 1873). Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley Papers: …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a …
- … on at least two occasions during the construction (1872–1873). Most of the money for the building …
- … saloon where Darwin’s bust was to be placed in 1873, together with a bust of Karl Ernst von Baer, …
- … image Adolf von Hildebrand date of creation 1873 computer-readable date …
- … ‘The Zoological Station at Naples’, Nature 8 (29 May 1873), p. 81. Thomas Huxley’s letter to …
Exercise: Caricatures of Science
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Caricatures provide intriguing insights into both ideals and transgressions of gender. The following six images show caricatured representations of nineteenth-century men and women of science. They provide insight into the boundaries of what was deemed …
Darwin's bad days
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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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- … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … Weale, J.P.M. [Jan 1873] Bedford, Cape of Good Hope, …
Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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- … Letter 9005b - Darwin to Treat, M., [12 August 1873] Darwin thanks Treat for sending over …