From E. A. Darwin 25 September [1873]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B90–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9069 |
From G. H. Darwin [25 September – 3 October 1873]
Summary
Criticises CD’s letter to Nature ["Complemental males in certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].
On the elimination of useless parts.
GHD fails to see the point of CD’s use of the law of distribution about a mean.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Sept – 3 Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.1: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9070 |
From John Murray 25 September [1873]
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s cheque.
Sends CD cheque for profits on Orchids and a statement of stock on hand of CD’s works [missing].
Origin and Expression sales are stagnant.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 437, DAR 210.11: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9071 |
From W. W. Keen 26 September 1873
Summary
Sends corrections of Descent and Expression.
Author: | William Williams Keen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 24–5, DAR 169: 2, and Expression 2d ed., p. 169 n. 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9072 |
From Hubert Airy 26 [September–November 1873]
Summary
The Royal Society referees have rejected HA’s phyllotaxy paper, and it will not be printed in Philosophical Transactions. HA is not sorry for he has found new facts which limit the applicability of his views. Now believes that the original leaf arrangement was not necessarily always two-ranked but rather that existing arrangements have developed from a variety of forms with differing numbers of leaf-ranks.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 [Sept-Nov] 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9073 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 September 1873
Summary
Had read Tyndall’s letter [Nature 8 (1873): 399] – awfully savage, but certainly a great mistake to print it.
Thinks JDH will think better of Clerk Maxwell’s paper after he reads it.
Asks whether JDH could find out for him the temperature of rain in very hot countries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 280–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9074 |
From M. T. Masters 27 September 1873
Summary
Seeks an interview with CD to discuss reorganisation of Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9075 |
From S. V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell 27 September 1873
Summary
Returns CD’s books and discusses apples and Crags at Sudbury.
Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 27 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6330-1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9075F |
From Edward Frankland 27 September 1873
Author: | Edward Frankland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9076 |
To M. T. Masters 29 September [1873]
Summary
CD refuses an interview because of a severe headache, but wishes all success to the Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 29 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9077 |
To Edward Frankland 29 September 1873
Summary
Is sending washings of 445 leaves in EF’s distilled water with 20 grains of carbonate of soda. Details of the difficulties and complications involved.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 29 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9077A |
From S. V. Wood Sr to Charles Lyell 30 September 1873
Summary
Sends proofs of pages on shells with revised species names. Discusses Crag Moll, Sutton and Butley Red Grag, and Scrobicularia beds. Son asks him to thank Lyell for extract from Darwin’s book.
Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6422-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9077F |
letter | (52) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Wood, S. V. | (3) |
Frankland, Edward | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Baxter, W. W. | (4) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (3) |
Frankland, Edward | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (50) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Frankland, Edward | (5) |
Baxter, W. W. | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (4) |