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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

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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

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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

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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

Summary

On a correction JVC thinks should be made in Variation on vertebrae of ducks.

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

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Concerned about GHD’s health. Sends a prescription for a cough mixture.

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

From R. F. Cooke   24 January 1873

Summary

Popular Edition [6th] of Origin has sold out 3000 copies. Asks CD whether he has found any errors that should be corrected.

Author:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 171: 434
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8749

From Anton Dohrn   27 January 1873

Summary

The Naples Zoological Station and its library are growing fast. His life is a constant battle with the municipality, but has managed to make a little progress on vertebrate ancestry and morphology. His views get further away from what is generally accepted.

Author:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 162: 212
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8750

From J. V. Carus   29 January 1873

Summary

A new [German] edition of Expression is to be done. Has CD anything to add or alter?

JVC cites an article on cessation of breathing during mental concentration that supports Gratiolet as quoted in Expression, p. 179.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 161: 91
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8751

To John Chapman   1 February 1873

Summary

Thanks for Chapman 1873 (Chapman, John. 1873. Neuralgia and kindred diseases of the nervous system).

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Chapman
Date:  1 Feb 1873
Classmark:  Western University Archives, History of Medicine Collection, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (A04-011-051)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8751F
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