From Alfred Moschkau 2 [December] 1873
Author: | Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 [Dec] 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 249 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9125 |
From T. L. Brunton 2 December 1873
Summary
Offers to experiment on the digestibility of chondrin and chlorophyll by Dionaea for CD.
Has noticed that painters depicting complex expressions give different expressions to the two sides of the face.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 337 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9167 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 December 1873
Summary
A letter from Anton Dohrn declines the proposed fund [that THH and others suggested be raised in England for marine biological station at Naples].
Hooker’s inaugural as President of Royal Society a success.
R. Owen distinguished himself in his way.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 330; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 252) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9169 |
From Jonathan Peel 4 December 1873
Author: | Jonathan Peel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 132–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9172 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 6 December 1873
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9174 |
From Hubert Airy 7 December 1873
Summary
Illustrates, with reference to different species of Gasteria, the role of twisting in the development of leaf arrangement.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9175 |
From Richard Strachey 9 December 1873
Summary
Sends observations from a friend in India confirming CD’s view that bees cut the tubes of flowers to extract [nectar] in order to save time.
Also observations on snails descending from trees on threads suspended from their tails.
Author: | Richard Strachey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.2: C56–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9176 |
From Alfred Moschkau 17 December 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for book.
Mentions controversy involving Haeckel.
Describes his lectures on Darwinism.
Author: | Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 251 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9182 |
From J. L. H. Down 20 December 1873
Summary
Describes an ear from a microcephalous idiot, which does not lend support to Ludwig Mayer’s view [that points on ears are mere variations; see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 15–16].
Is working on involution rather than evolution, with results confirming CD’s teaching.
Author: | John Langdon Haydon Down |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 61–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9188 |
From James Crichton-Browne 27 December 1873
Summary
Is about to undertake an intensive investigation with other scientists of general paralysis in its various aspects. Would appreciate CD’s comments on photographs he would submit.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9190 |
From J. L. H. Down 18 December 1873
Summary
Describes features of an ear of a microcephalous idiot, one of which contradicts Carl Vogt’s views [Mémoire sur les microcéphales (1867)].
Author: | John Langdon Haydon Down |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9191 |
From H. H. Howorth 31 December 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for subsidence references in response to HHH’s Nature paper ["The distribution of volcanoes", 9 (1874): 141–2].
Hopes to refer to CD’s having previously suggested the corresponding elevation of continents and sinking of the larger oceans in his next letter to Nature [9 (1874): 201–2]. Occurrence of volcanoes at boundary between rising and sinking lands reconciles his views with CD’s.
Author: | Henry Hoyle Howorth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 278 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9194 |
letter | (12) |
Down, J. L. H. | (2) |
Moschkau, Alfred | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Down, J. L. H. | (2) |
Moschkau, Alfred | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Howorth, H. H. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Peel, Jonathan | (1) |
Strachey, Richard | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |