To M. D. Conway 11 January [1873]
Summary
Thanks MDC for letter on expression [see 8694].
Invites him to Down on 24th. CD warns that his health does not permit him to talk long with anyone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
Date: | 11 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8730 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 January 1873
Summary
Drosophyllum is coming from Dublin. Will ship it to Down when it arrives.
The awful honour of Presidency of Royal Society; his aversion to dignities and honours.
R. Strachey [Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1873): 450] has paid him and CD a compliment.
Letter from Gladstone.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 146–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8732 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 January [1873]
Summary
Had thrown Geographical Society’s Proceedings in waste-basket, but as Strachey shows such admirable powers of discrimination he will fish it out and read the whole article.
Comments on 3d ed. of Sachs’s work [Lehrbuch der Botanik (1873)]. Wishes he were more controversial.
Has become wonderfully interested in Drosera and Dionaea.
9000 copies of Expression have been printed and most are sold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 251–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8733 |
From J. D. Hooker [13 or 20 January 1873]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 or 20] Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 138–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8734 |
To A. R. Wallace 13 January [1873]
Summary
Response to ARW’s criticisms in his review [of Expression, Q. J. Sci. n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 13 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8735 |
From A. R. Wallace 14 January 1873
Summary
Is not surprised CD dissents from his criticisms [of Expression?]. Holds to his own interpretation of the expression of astonishment.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8736 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 14 January 1873
Summary
Thanks for Expression, which has made him wonder whether his shyness in public until the age of 55 resulted from fear of subjecting his face to ridicule.
Criticises F. Galton’s Hereditary genius [1869] for neglecting environmental influence.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8737 |
From Ernst Meitzen 17 January 1873
Summary
Sends his book [Bhawani (1872)], which is a poem in praise of evolutionary theory and showing its roots in ancient India.
Author: | August (Ernst) Meitzen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8738 |
From James Paget 17 January 1873
Summary
Describes a patient’s ears with peculiar tufts of hair in places where he has never seen them before. Encloses sketch.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 56–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8739 |
From H. P. Lee 17 January 1873
Summary
Describes shaken index finger in Japan and blushing among Chinese servants.
Author: | Henry Pincke Lee |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Expression 2d ed., pp. 291 n. 40, 335 n. 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8739F |
To James Paget 18 January [1873]
Summary
JP’s note [8739] suggests reversion, but that is an easy trap. Will look to the ears of "our brethren at the Zool. Gardens".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8740 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 18 January [1873]
Summary
The evidence of tameness of Alpine butterflies [see 8672] seems good and the fact is surprising to CD for they can hardly have acquired this in their short life-time.
The question whether butterflies are attracted to bright colours independently of the supposed presence of nectar is still unanswered.
CD has great difficulty in believing that any temporary condition of parents can affect the offspring.
Pangenesis is much reviled, but CD must still look at generation from this point of view, which makes him averse to believing that an emotion has any effect on the offspring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 18 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8741 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1873
Summary
Hopes Drosophyllum was all right.
Opinion of Council of Royal Society [on Presidency] is twelve for JDH, five for Duke of Devonshire, and G. B. Airy for William Spottiswoode.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8742 |
To Ernst Haeckel 20 January 1873
Summary
On EH’s Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 20 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 52/29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8743 |
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 |
From Hubert Airy 21 January 1873
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].
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8745 |
From J. V. Carus 21 January 1873
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8746 |
To J. D. Baldwin 21 January [1873]
Summary
Discusses JDB’s views on the spread of human-like creatures across the world, and the development of language.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Denison Baldwin |
Date: | 21 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | Steven S. Raab (dealer) (September 2001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8746F |
To G. H. Darwin 22 January 1873
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8747 |
To J. V. Carus 23 January 1873
Summary
Acknowledges correction in text of Variation . "You are a most conscientious editor & are as careful as I am apt to be careless."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 23 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 100–101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8748 |
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