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 E. A. Darwin 25 September [1873]
Summary
EAD sees advantages to Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B90–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9069 |
To Ernst Haeckel 25 September 1873
Summary
Comments on EH’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [4th ed.].
Has written paper on rudimentary structures ["Complemental males of certain cirripedes", (1873) Collected papers 2: 177–82].
Edward Morse thinks brachiopods should be classed with annelids ["The systematic position of the Brachiopoda", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 15 (1873): 315–73].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 25 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1-52/30 [9883]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9068 |
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 |
To Fritz Müller 25 September 1873
Summary
Seedling vigour resulting from crossing of parents.
CD to publish work on insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 25 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9067 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
