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 |
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 |
From Francis Galton [before 28 May 1873]
Summary
Collecting information about antecedents of eminent men of science. Sends questionnaire.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 May 1873] |
Classmark: | Pearson 1914–30, 2: 177–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8889 |
From J. V. Carus [before 8 May 1873]
Summary
Publisher [Schweizerbart] has seen CD’s new book advertised [Cross and self-fertilisation] and wishes to publish a German translation of it.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 8 May 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8890 |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From S. J. Pozzi 11 May 1873
Author: | Samuel Jean Pozzi |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8908 |
From Hermann Müller 12 May 1873
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8909 |
From Ludwik Masłowski 14 May 1873
Author: | Ludwik Masłowski |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8910 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 14 May 1873
Summary
Samuel Pozzi’s translation of Expression progressing slowly.
J. J. Moulinié’s translation of Descent is stylistically poor, which may account for low sales.
Difficult to find European naturalists to translate CD’s works. They would rather write books on "Darwinisme" under their own names.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8911 |
From W. W. Reade 14 May 1873
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8912 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 17 May 1873
Summary
Wishes to dedicate his memoir ["Monographie der Gattung Anthracotherium", Paleontographica 22 (1876): 131–347] to CD as founder of evolutionary theory.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8914 |
From Arthur Russell 19 May 1873
Summary
In Variation CD claims there are no distinct races of carp, but AR says that in Germany a peculiar and constant variety of carp has been bred.
Author: | Arthur John Edward (Arthur) Russell, Lord Arthur Russell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 226 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8915 |
From Arthur Mostyn-Owen 21 May 1873
Summary
Offers to exchange a water-colour portrait of CD, done, he believes, by Fanny Biddulph, for a copy of Descent.
There has been a decrease of game-birds in the area.
Author: | Arthur Mostyn Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8917 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 23 May 1873
Summary
Sends results of his observations of cross- and self-fertilisation of Hypecoum grandiflorum and Eschscholzia californica [see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 331–2].
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B179–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8920 |
From A. F. Baker 25 May 1873
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.
Author: | Augustine FitzGerald Baker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8921 |
letter | (27) |
Müller, Hermann | (3) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Mostyn Owen, Arthur | (2) |
Baer, K. E. von | (1) |
Baker, A. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Müller, Hermann | (3) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Mostyn Owen, Arthur | (2) |
Baer, K. E. von | (1) |
Baker, A. F. | (1) |
Barrett, W. F. | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Harte, William | (1) |
Hennig, Rudolf | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Hookham, George | (1) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Krefft, Gerard | (1) |
Masłowski, Ludwik | (1) |
Nicols, Arthur | (1) |
Ogle, William | (1) |
Pozzi, S. J. | (1) |
Reade, W. W. | (1) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
Russell, Arthur | (1) |