To J. D. Hooker 17 February 1873
Summary
Is drawing up the account of his crossing experiments. Requests JDH to add the families after nine genera, the names of which he encloses. Whenever there is no objection he would like to arrange the families in some sort of natural order.
Recommends Spalding’s article on instinct in Macmillan’s Magazine [27 (1873): 265–81].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 257–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8769 |
From C. H. Schaible 17 February 1873
Summary
Sends copy of Vinzenz Czerny [Beziehungen der Chirurgie (1872)], which applies Darwinian principles to pathology.
Recommends illustrations dealing with expression in the Atlas of K. H. Baumgärtner’s Kranken-Physiognomik [1839].
Author: | Carl Heinrich Schaible |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8771 |
To George King 18 February 1873
Summary
Thanks for information on worm-castings. Comments on disintegration of castings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George King |
Date: | 18 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8772 |
To W. M. Canby 19 February 1873
Summary
CD would like to know what were the sizes of insects caught by the older leaves of Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Marriott Canby |
Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | The Society of Natural History of Delaware |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8773 |
From F. X. Neumann von Spallart 19 February 1873
Summary
The editor of a supplement to the New Free Press to be published during the next Vienna Exhibition, asks CD to contribute a few columns on any topic.
Author: | Franz Xaver Neumann von Spallart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8774 |
From T. R. Clephan 19 February 1873
Summary
Reports that he has the power of moving his left ear towards the top of his head [see Descent 1: 21].
Author: | Thomas Richmond Clephan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8775 |
To Albert Gaudry 19 February 1873
Summary
Thanks for gift of first part of AG’s magnificent work [Animaux fossiles du mont Léberon (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b.7, fasc. 28, doc. 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8776 |
To James Shaw 19 February 1873
Summary
Thanks for a photograph of a donkey and children.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (22 April 2020, lot 47289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8776A |
To [Williams & Norgate] 19 February [1873]
Summary
Orders a copy of the St Paul’s Magazine for February.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 19 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (9 May 2012, lot 849) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8776F |
From J. D. Hooker 20 February 1873
Summary
Delighted with John Traherne Moggridge’s book [Harvesting ants (1873)].
Has suggested he plant seeds in various receptacles. Only two explanations for failure of seeds to germinate [in ants’ nests]: lack of circulating air or formic acid.
Has undertaken a botany primer for Macmillan.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 149–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8777 |
From L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield 20 February 1873
Author: | Laura Mary Forster |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 20 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8778 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 February [1873]
Summary
Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.
Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 259–60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8779 |
From Arthur Nicols 21 February 1873
Summary
Comments on CD’s and William Huggins’ letter in Nature on "Inherited instinct" [Collected papers 2: 170–1]
and on A. R. Wallace’s letter on the homing faculty of animals. Believes many instances of homing are less remarkable than they appear.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8780 |
From J. R. Martin 22 February 1873
Summary
CD is asked to increase his shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co. Ltd., which has trebled its capital in the last year and is paying a 6% dividend.
Author: | John Royle Martin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8781 |
From W. F. Collier 22 February 1873
Summary
Sends pamphlet on punishment in education [Punishments in education, read at Social Science Congress, 1872] in response to Expression. Proposes that character can be diagnosed from expression.
Author: | Collier, W. F. |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8782 |
From Ernst Haeckel 23 February 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for comments on Die Kalkschwämme.
Plans trip to Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt.
Discusses work of a Polish translator, Ludwik Masłowski.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8783 |
From Robert Smith 24 February 1873
Summary
Asks for references to works on CD’s views for a paper he is preparing.
Author: | Robert Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8784 |
From J. C. Houzeau 24 February 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for Expression.
Suggests saving some anthropoid Quadrumana from extinction by taming and studying them in their own environments to learn about their development.
Author: | Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie (Jean-Charles Houzeau) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 94–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8785 |
From Asa Gray 25 February 1873
Summary
Sends "squib" he has written exposing the folly of some of Louis Agassiz’s ideas. AG cannot "fire off [his] cracker" in U. S. so sends it to amuse CD. If it is sent to Nature, CD must not give AG’s name. [See "Survival of the fittest", Nature 7 (1873): 404].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 183; Nature, 27 March 1873, p. 404 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8786 |
From R. B. Litchfield 26 February 1873
Author: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8787 |
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