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To G. H. Darwin   24 [October 1873]

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"It is a fearfully difficult moral problem about speaking out on religion, & I have never been able to make up my mind."

An Irishman, a "grand breeder" of short-horns, declared at lunch that CD’s books had been "a great help to [him] in breeding!"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  24 [Oct 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9111

Matches: 10 hits

  • … To G.  H.  Darwin   24 [October 1873] …
  • … DAR 210.1: 15 Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 [Oct 1873] George Howard Darwin …
  • … See letter to G.  H.  Darwin, 21 October [ 1873] and n.  4. Henrietta Emma Litchfield . …
  • … Horace Darwin . See letter to John Downing, 20 October [1873] , and letter from …
  • … John Downing, 13 November 1873 . …
  • … Bibliography Maxwell, James Clerk. 1873. On the final state of a system of molecules in …
  • … motion subject to forces of any kind. Nature , 23 October 1873, pp. 537–8. …
  • … between this letter, the letter to G.  H.  Darwin, 21 October [1873] , and the letter from …
  • … John Downing, 13 November 1873 . The letter has not been found. James Clerk Maxwell’ …
  • … subject to forces of any kind’ ( Maxwell 1873 ) was full of equations. CD refers to Albert …

To Alexander Bain   9 October 1873

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Thanks AB for his review of Expression [May 1873, in The senses and the intellect, 3d ed. (1874), pp. 697–714]. Admits vagueness of some points. Has never grasped AB’s principle of spontaneity. But, as they look at everything so differently, it is not likely that they should agree closely.

A recent review by T. S. Baynes, [Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "magnificently contemptuous" toward CD and many others.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alexander Bain
Date:  9 Oct 1873
Classmark:  DAR 143: 27
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9092

Matches: 13 hits

  • … To Alexander Bain   9 October 1873
  • … DAR 143: 27 Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Oct 1873 Alexander Bain …
  • … Bibliography Bain, Alexander. 1873. Review of ‘Darwin on expression:’ being a postscript …
  • … Green, and Co. [Baynes, Thomas Spencer. ] 1873. [Review of Expression . ] Edinburgh Review …
  • … AB for his review of Expression [May 1873, in The senses and the intellect , 3d ed. ( …
  • … by T. S. Baynes, [ Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "magnificently contemptuous" …
  • … Down Beckenham Oct.  9. 1873 My dear Sir I am particularly obliged to you for having sent …
  • … Review of ‘Darwin on expression’ ( Bain 1873 ), inscribed, ‘With the author’s respects and …
  • … cited Bain in Descent and Expression. In Bain 1873 , p.  698, Bain had commented that CD’s …
  • … theory of blushing was ‘one of the happiest suggestions in the book’ ( Bain 1873 , p.   …
  • … 712). [Baynes] 1873  criticised CD, Thomas Henry Huxley , John Tyndall , and Herbert …
  • … letter to George Cupples, 28 April [1873] . CD stayed at the hydropathic establishment at …
  • … See also Expression , pp.  8–9. In Bain 1873 , p.  699, Bain wrote, ‘By Spontaneity, I …

From J. D. Hooker   6 October 1873

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Mimosa prostrata, described by John Lindley as M. marginata, native of Brazil.

Who supplies CD with distilled water and chemicals?

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Oct 1873
Classmark:  DAR 103: 169–70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9089

Matches: 8 hits

  • … W.  Moore, 3 October 1873 ). …
  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   6 October 1873
  • … DAR 103: 169–70 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 6 Oct 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Royal Gardens Kew Oct r . 6. 1873 My dear Darwin Mimosa prostrata is only a name from the …
  • … CD had been working on Mimosa since at least August 1873 (see letter to …
  • … Francis Darwin, 15 August [1873] and n.  10). CD described the movements of M.  marginata …
  • … Moore (see, for example, letter to W.  W.  Baxter, 4 September 1873 , letter from Edward …
  • … Frankland, 27 September 1873 , and letter from S.   …

From G. H. Darwin   5 October 1873

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Has decided to send the letter ["Variation of organs", Nature 8 (1873): 505].

Writes of his poor health and problems of settling in at Trinity.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Oct 1873
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9088

Matches: 13 hits

  • … From G.  H.  Darwin   5 October 1873
  • … 210.2: 30 George Howard Darwin Trinity College, Cambridge 5 Oct 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … the letter ["Variation of organs", Nature 8 (1873): 505]. Writes of his poor health and …
  • … Bibliography Goodman, John. 1873. White corpuscles, their nature and origin in the animal …
  • … Association for the Advancement of Science (1873), Transactions of the sections, pp. 129– …
  • … organs (see letter from G.  H.  Darwin to Nature , 4 October [1873] and nn.  2 and 3). …
  • … Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1873 ( ODNB ). Horace Darwin was an undergraduate …
  • … to the south of France for their health in January 1873 ( letter from G.  H.  Darwin …
  • … house in Down for Francis Darwin (see letter to Frederick Allen’s agent, [October 1873] ). …
  • … to H.  E.  Litchfield, 25 January 1873 (DAR 210.2: 24)). George was following the dietary …
  • … see letter from G.  H.  Darwin, [1 October 1873] and n.  2). Gyp-room: a room where the …
  • … was printed in the Proceedings ( Goodman 1873 ); the abstract mentioned that corpuscles …
  • … in a letter in Chemical News , 23 May 1873, p.  255. Henry Fisher Cox of the Examiner , a …

From G. H. Darwin to Nature   4 October [1873]

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Sends, with CD’s approval, a clarification of CD’s explanation of how useless organs might diminish [see 9061]. Using Quetelet’s law of normal distribution GHD shows how horns of cattle, having become useless, would gradually diminish and finally disappear.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  4 Oct [1873]
Classmark:  Nature, 16 October 1873, p. 505
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9087

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From G.  H.  Darwin to Nature    4 October [1873] …
  • … Nature , 16 October 1873, p.   …
  • … 505 George Howard Darwin Down 4 Oct [1873] Nature …
  • … is established by the fact that this letter was published in Nature , 16 October 1873. …
  • … See letter to Nature , 20 September [1873]. See letter from G.   …
  • … H.  Darwin, [before 3 October 1873] , and letter to G.   …
  • … H.  Darwin, 3 October [1873] . George refers to Adolphe Quetelet and Quetelet 1869 , 1: …

To J. D. Hooker   31 October 1873

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On Nepenthes.

Asks JDH, if he publishes, to mention CD’s work on digestive powers of Drosera so that charges of plagiarism will not be made against CD later when he publishes.

Describes at length his observations on the movements of Desmodium.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  31 Oct 1873
Classmark:  DAR 95: 300–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9118

Matches: 12 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   31 October 1873
  • … DAR 95: 300–3 Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Oct 1873 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 23 October [1873] . CD later discussed Lathyrus nissolia ( …
  • … plants , pp.  33–4. Francis had visited Kew on Sunday 26 October 1873 (see letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 23 October [1873] ) …
  • … Down Oct 31 1873 My dear Hooker I will now answer the rest of yr letter; but first, I …
  • … In his letter of 29 October 1873 , Hooker had offered to send an Acacia farnesiana (now …
  • … organs, in his letter of 29 October 1873 (see also J.  D.  Hooker 1874 , p.  112). ‘ …
  • … London ( letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 29 October 1873 ). CD had asked Francis Darwin to buy …
  • … and learn to use an immersion lens ( letter to Francis Darwin, 10 October 1873 ). CD was …
  • … in London from 8 to 18 November 1873 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD later discussed …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 29 October 1873  and n.  7. CD later described the digestive …

From J. D. Hooker   29 October 1873

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Sends plant specimens.

He and Thiselton-Dyer, working on with Nepenthes, have independently found the spiral vessels going to the gland. CD’s view that the glands are secretory organs is suggestive. When Nepenthes is as much done as CD wants,

he will turn to Cephalotus and Sarracenia.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Oct 1873
Classmark:  DAR 103: 176–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9116

Matches: 11 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   29 October 1873
  • … DAR 103: 176–7 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 29 Oct 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … the grass vetchling) in his letter to Hooker of 23 October [1873] . See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 26 October [1873] . Francis …
  • … Darwin had visited Kew on 26 October 1873 (see letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 23 October [1873] ). …
  • … in his letter to Hooker of 26 October [1873] ; it was sent on 31 October (Royal Botanic …
  • … insectivorous plants. See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 25 October 1873 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 26 October [1873] . Hooker was experimenting with putting pieces of albumen ( …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 25 October 1873 . CD had asked Francis to ask Hooker to try an …
  • … see letter to Francis Darwin, 10 October 1873  and n.  9). Hooker refers to John Russell , …

To G. H. Darwin   21 October [1873]

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CD gives his criticisms of GHD’s essay on religion and the moral sense. Urges him to delay publishing for some months and then to consider whether it is new and important enough to counterbalance the effects of its publication. J. S. Mill would never have influenced the age as he has done had he not refrained from expressing his religious convictions. Cites John Morley’s Life of Voltaire [1872]: direct attacks produce little effect; real good comes from slow and silent side attacks. "My advice is to pause, pause, pause."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  21 Oct [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1:14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9105

Matches: 13 hits

  • … To G.  H.  Darwin   21 October [1873] …
  • … DAR 210.1:14 Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Oct [1873] George Howard Darwin …
  • … at Down from 25 September to 22 October 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD refers …
  • … Bibliography Arnold, Matthew. 1873. Literature & dogma: an essay towards a better …
  • … the letter to G.  H.  Darwin, 24 [October 1873] . George’s essay on religion and the moral …
  • … to Matthew Arnold , who had sent CD Literature & dogma ( Arnold 1873 ); see letter to …
  • … Matthew Arnold, 9 February [1873] . …
  • … In Arnold 1873 , p.  43 n.  1, Arnold wrote: ‘All good and fruitful prayer is in truth, …
  • … s Magazine 26: 410–16. Mill, John Stuart. 1873. Autobiography. London: Longmans, Green, …
  • … more real. ’ John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography ( J.  S.  Mill 1873 ) was published in the …
  • … second half of October 1873 ( Publishers’ …
  • … Circular 1873, p.  774); it …
  • … reviewed in the Daily News , 18 October 1873, p.  2. Albert Venn Dicey and Richard Buckley …

To Francis Darwin   10 October 1873

Summary

Asks for details about microscope parts.

Wants FD to ask Hooker for species of Desmodium; CD believes he has found new movements.

Also ask whether Hooker has Drosophyllum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  10 Oct 1873
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873-8 f.1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9095

Matches: 10 hits

  • … To Francis Darwin   10 October 1873
  • … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873-8 f.1) Charles Robert …
  • … Darwin Down 10 Oct 1873 Francis Darwin …
  • … but there is no record of one sent in 1873 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Outwards book ). …
  • … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Oct 10. 1873 You had better take this note to Kew and read to …
  • … microscope from the German maker, Edmund Hartnack , in June 1873 (see Correspondence vol. …
  • … from Francis Darwin, [before 26 June 1873] ). Nouveau petite modèle : new small model ( …
  • … from Francis Darwin, [before 26 June 1873] ). In his Classed account books (Down House …
  • … of £16 8 s. for ‘Hartnack &c’ on 26 June 1873. CD discussed the movements of Desmodium …
  • … from Francis Darwin, [before 26 June 1873] ). Immersion lenses were designed to view …

From Francis Darwin   [26? October 1873]

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Observations on the leaves of Desmodium. Most are trifoliate; none has tendrils. Gives some comments from Hooker.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [26? Oct 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 209.2: 21–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9115

Matches: 9 hits

  • … From Francis Darwin   [26? October 1873] …
  • … DAR 209.2: 21–2 Francis Darwin unstated [26? Oct 1873] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … letter’ is the letter to Francis Darwin of 23 October [1873] (the first being the letter …
  • … to Francis of 22 October 1873) . Fugacious: easily shed. …
  • … wrote this memorandum after visiting Kew on Sunday 26 October 1873 (see letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 23 October [1873] ). CD had asked Francis to look at Desmodium species …
  • … at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see letters to Francis Darwin , 10 October 1873 , 22  …
  • … October 1873 , and …
  • … 23 October [1873] ). He thought the plant might have evolved from a climber. Desmodium …

To Theodor Eimer   21 October [1873]

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Thanks for TE’s work on [Beroe?] with illustrations of its parts [Zoologische Studien auf Capri 1 (1873)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer
Date:  21 Oct [1873]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9690

Matches: 6 hits

  • … To Theodor Eimer   21 October [1873] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Oct [1873] Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer …
  • … on [Beroe? ] with illustrations of its parts [ Zoologische Studien auf Capri 1 (1873)]. …
  • … Bibliography Eimer, Theodor. 1873–4. Zoologische Studien auf Capri. I Über Beroë ovatus. …
  • … The year is established by year of publication of Eimer 1873–4 ; see n.  2, below. …
  • … s book Zoologische Studien auf Capri ( Eimer 1873–4 ); CD’s copy has not been found. Beroe …

To G. H. Darwin   3 October [1873]

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CD thinks GHD’s letter is an excellent clarification [of CD’s conjectural view on the elimination of useless parts in species], but does not want to publish it as his [CD’s] own. Asks GHD to think carefully before he publishes it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  3 Oct [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9085

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To G.  H.  Darwin   3 October [1873] …
  • … DAR 210.1: 12 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Oct [1873] George Howard Darwin …
  • … see n.  3, below). See letter from G.  H.  Darwin, [before 3 October 1873] . CD had …
  • … published a letter in Nature , 25 September 1873, pp.  431–2, headed ‘On the males and …
  • … see letter to Nature , 20 September [1873]). George had drafted a clarification of CD’s …
  • … see letter to Nature from G.  H.  Darwin, 4 October [1873]); George’s letter was published …
  • … in the issue of 16 October 1873. The second part of CD’s letter in Nature (see n.  2, …
  • … residence at Trinity College in October 1873 ( ODNB ). Both George and his cousin Edmund …
  • … Clark about their health (see letter from G.  H.  Darwin, [before 3 October 1873] ). …

From G. H. Darwin   [before 3 October 1873]

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Sends CD a draft of a letter to Nature [see 9087], which he thinks expresses CD’s meaning.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 3 Oct 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9084

Matches: 10 hits

  • … From G.  H.  Darwin   [before 3 October 1873] …
  • … 28 George Howard Darwin New University Club [before 3 Oct 1873] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … between this letter and the letter to G.  H.  Darwin, 3 October [1873] . CD had …
  • … published a letter in Nature , 25 September 1873, pp.  431–2, headed ‘On the males and …
  • … see letter to Nature , 20 September [1873]). George’s draft has not been found, but was a …
  • … of organs (see letter from G.  H.  Darwin to Nature , 4 October [1873]). George took …
  • … at Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1873 ( ODNB ). Leonard Darwin was working at the …
  • … at Down House. Andrew Clark began treating both CD and George in 1873 (see letter from …
  • … Andrew Clark, 3 September 1873 , and letter from G.   …
  • … H.  Darwin, [1 October 1873] ). Edmund Langton was George’s cousin. …

From Ernst Haeckel   8 October 1873

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On CD’s paper ["Complemental males of certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].

Comments on paper by W. H. Dallinger and J. J. Drysdale ["Life history of a Cercomonad", Mon. Microsc. J. 10 (1873): 53–8].

Discusses origin of life, the Gastraea theory and concept that primary germ layers are homologous in all animals. Notes similar views of E. Ray Lankester ["On the primitive cell-layers of the embryo", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 11 (1873): 321–38].

Reception of Darwinism in Germany.

Author:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Oct 1873
Classmark:  DAR 166: 61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9091

Matches: 12 hits

  • … From Ernst Haeckel    8 October 1873
  • … DAR 166: 61 Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel Jena 8 Oct 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 11 (1873): 321–38]. Reception of Darwinism in Germany. …
  • … history of a Cercomonad", Mon. Microsc. J. 10 (1873): 53–8]. Discusses origin of life, the …
  • … original German, see pp.  441–3. See letter to Ernst Haeckel, 25 September 1873 . CD had …
  • … a letter in Nature , 25 September 1873, p.  42, headed ‘On the males and complemental …
  • … and on rudimentary structures’ (see letter to Nature , 20 September [1873]). Haeckel …
  • … also refers to Dallinger and Drysdale 1873 (‘A lesson in biogenesis’). In Haeckel 1866 , …
  • … and Magaz.  of nat.  hist. No 65. Mai 1873 “On the primitive Cell-layers of the Embryo” …
  • … and Magaz.  of nat.  hist.  no.  65 May 1873, “On the primitive cell-layers of the embryo” …
  • … sterile water (Dallinger and Drysdale 1873, pp.  57–8). Monera, a taxon of unicellular …
  • … the English translation was dated 24 June 1873. The term gastrula (an embryo at the stage …

To John Downing   25 October [1873]

Summary

Has read letters and MS with great interest.

No ill effects from JD’s visit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Downing
Date:  25 Oct [1873]
Classmark:  Downing 1890, p. 534
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9113F

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To John Downing   25 October [1873] …
  • … Downing 1890 , p. 534 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Oct [1873] John Downing …
  • … and the letter to John Downing, 20 October [1873] ( Correspondence vol. 21). An anonymous …
  • … friend to shorthorn progress’, appeared in Bell’s Weekly Messenger , 31 March 1873, p.  6. …
  • … An offprint, dated 4 April 1873 and signed ‘J.  Downing’, is in DAR 198: 59. CDs notes …
  • … them to Downing (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter from John Downing, 13 November 1873 ). …
  • … Downing visited CD on 24 October 1873 (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter from G. …
  • … H. Darwin, 24 [October 1873] ). CD added a note to Variation 2d ed. , p. 97 n. 7, ‘Mr. J. …

To J. D. Hooker   23 October [1873]

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Neptunia is evidently a hopeless case.

Good news that fluid of Nepenthes is acid.

No discovery ever gave him more pleasure than proving a true act of digestion in Drosera.

Has become profoundly interested in Desmodium. Asks whether Frank [Darwin] can look over the whole dried collection of the genus.

Has JDH any seed of Lathyrus nissolia?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  23 Oct [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 282–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9108

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   23 October [1873] …
  • … DAR 95: 282–3 Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Oct [1873] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … the letter to Francis Darwin, 22 October 1873 . Hooker was working on insectivorous plants …
  • … sundew or dewy pine; letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 October 1873  and nn.  1 and 3). See …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 October 1873 . CD discussed Neptunia oleracea (a synonym of …
  • … on Desmodium in Movement in plants. See letters to Francis Darwin , 22 October 1873  and …
  • … 23 October [1873] . CD also refers to Leonard Darwin and William Huggins . Desmodium …
  • … the grass vetchling), see the letter to Francis Darwin, 23 October [1873] and n.  2. …

To J. D. Hooker   [before 20 October 1873?]

Summary

Lists plants in which he is interested, including Neptunia and Mimosa species.

Do any strictly tropical plants have glaucous leaves?

Asks for observations on irritable plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [before 20 Oct 1873?]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873-8 f.39b)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9107

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   [before 20 October 1873? ] …
  • … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873-8 f.39b) Charles Robert …
  • … Darwin unstated [before 20 Oct 1873? ] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 August 1873 ). Rubus is a genus in the family Rosaceae (roses) …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 October 1873 . CD discussed Neptunia oleracea (a synonym of …
  • … 21, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 September [1873] ). CD discussed the species in Movement in …
  • … nilotica ). In his letter of 14 August 1873 ( Correspondence vol. 21), Hooker noted that …

To J. D. Hooker   26 October [1873]

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Extremely glad to hear of the aggregation in Nepenthes glands. Advises on experimenting with cubes of albumen – gives sizes, also suggests cubes of roast meat. Thanks for analyses of secretion of Nepenthes.

Asks for cutting of Acacia farnesiana.

Longs to examine a species of Desmodium with three leaflets. Has asked Frank [Darwin] to look for species of Desmodium with tendrils.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  26 Oct [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 284–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9114

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   26 October [1873] …
  • … DAR 95: 284–5 Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Oct [1873] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 25 October 1873 . Nepenthes is the tropical pitcher-plant. …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 25 October 1873 . In Insectivorous plants , CD concluded that …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 23 October [1873] ). For the Desmodium species that CD …
  • … see letter to Francis Darwin, 22 October 1873  and n.  4. Desmodium volubile is not listed …
  • … Henry Huxley arrived at Down on 25 October 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). He had …
  • … been ill earlier in the year ( letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [6 April 1873] ). …

From Francis Darwin   [11 October 1873]

Summary

Has got a cold, so will not go to Kew. Wrote to Hartnack about price of microscopes and describes own model. Told Hooker about Tisley Spiller’s microscope in Paris.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [11 Oct 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9095F

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  • … From Francis Darwin   [11 October 1873] …
  • … DAR 274.1: 9 Francis Darwin London [11 Oct 1873] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … microscopes ( Chemical News , 5 December 1873, p.  iv). Erasmus Alvey Darwin . Some notes …
  • … the relationship between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 10 October 1873 . …
  • … In 1873, the Saturday following 10 October was 11 October. CD had included questions …
  • … in his letter to Francis of 10 October 1873 . Joseph Dalton Hooker was director of the …
  • … s microscopes, in his letter of 10 October 1873 . Francis refers to Edward Emanuel Klein . …

From C. G. Ehrenberg   20 October 1873

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Sends an essay ["Mikrogeologische Studien über das kleinste Leben der Meeres-Tiefgründe aller Zonen und dessen geologischen Einfluss", Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1873): 131-98.]

with expressions of admiration. CGE is confident their differences will not estrange them.

Remembers with gratitude the [Atlantic] dust that CD made available to him in 1844 [see 747].

Author:  Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Oct 1873
Classmark:  DAR 163: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9103

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  • … From C.  G.  Ehrenberg    20 October 1873
  • … DAR 163: 12 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Berlin 20 Oct 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … 1970–90. Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. 1873. Mikrogeologische Studien über das kleinste …
  • … Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1873): 131-98. ] with expressions of admiration. …
  • … Berlin den 20. October 1873. Hochgeehrtester Herr und College! Ohne ein directes Wort der …
  • … and their geological influence; Ehrenberg 1873 ) is in the Darwin Library–Down. Ehrenberg …
  • … Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1873): 131–98. Shorter publications : Charles …
  • … Berlin 20. October 1873. Most honoured Sir and Colleague! I dare not send the enclosed …
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Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?

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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…

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  • … and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved …
  • … A large portion of the letters Darwin received in 1873 were in response to  The expression of the …
  • … to have observed” ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] ).  Drosera  was the main focus of …
  • … leaf & branch!” ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 ). Darwin found that the …
  • … copy of the  Handbook for the physiological laboratory  (1873), a detailed guide to animal …
  • … Darwin’s other main focus of botanical investigation in 1873 was cross- and self-fertilisation, work …
  • … & correlated” ( letter to T. H. Farrer, 14 August 1873 ). Darwin worried, however, that …
  • … when it will be ready” ( letter to John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). Keeping it in the family …
  • … their burrows” ( letter from Francis Darwin, 14 August [1873] ). In September, Darwin …
  • … will be created” ( letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 ). Erasmus, who had studied medicine …
  • … work” ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 25 September [1873] ).  Shortly afterwards, it was arranged for …
  • … 1872 and sold quickly. He wrote to Hooker on 12 January [1873] , “Did I ever boast to you on the …
  • … anonymously in the  Edinburgh Review  in April ([Baynes] 1873). Darwin asked one of his Scottish …
  • … before hand” ( letter to George Cupples, 28 April [1873] ). Readers' lives …
  • … letter from L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield, 20 February 1873 ). The surgeon Francis Stephen …
  • … ( letter to F. S. B. F. de Chaumont, 3 February [1873] ). Some readers proposed alternative …
  • … that accompanied sexual intercourse? (letter from ?, [1873?]). The Scottish physician William Main …
  • … with the reverse—” ( letter from William Main, 2 April 1873 ). The zoologist Henry Reeks suspected …
  • … and good breeding ( letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 ). Robert Swinhoe wrote from Ning …
  • … a second dose” ( letter from Robert Swinhoe, 26 March 1873 ). One of the leading …
  • … the jaws” ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 16 April 1873 ). Crichton-Browne was trying …
  • … the disease ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 30 December 1873 ). Instinct  In …
  • … to its offspring ( letter from J. T. Moggridge, 1 February 1873 ). Darwin soon became …
  • … shops ( letter to  Nature , [before 13 February 1873] ). Huggins’s letter prompted replies from …
  • … to  Nature  ( letter to  Nature , [before 13 March 1873] ) about a horse who had pulled a mail …
  • … with his finger ( letter to  Nature , [before 3 April 1873] ). Moggridge suggested the …
  • … fellow species” ( letter to  Nature , [before 24 July 1873] ). Character and genius …
  • … as “utopian” ( letter to Francis Galton, 4 January [1873] ). Continuing the line of research he …
  • … money very well” ( letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ). Among character traits, he listed …
  • … honest & industrious” ( letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ). Supporting science, …
  • … father ( enclosure to letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 December 1873 ).  In April, Darwin also …

All Darwin's letters from 1873 go online for the anniversary of Origin

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To celebrate the 158th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species on 24 November, the full transcripts and footnotes of over 500 letters from and to Charles Darwin in 1873 are now available online. Read about Darwin's life in 1873 through his…

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  • … of over 500 letters from and to Charles Darwin in 1873 are now available online. We have also …
  • … Here are some highlights from Darwin's correspondence in 1873: I do not think any …
  • … in Drosera.  ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 October [1873] ) In 1873, Darwin continued …
  • … work to do  ( Letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 ) As well as working on …
  • … of them sold!  ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] ) Expression of the …
  • … brother.  ( Letter to T. H. Huxley, 23 April 1873 ) Darwin wrote this to Thomas …
  • … and marvellous  ( Letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ) Darwin was invited to …

Charles Harrison Blackley

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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…

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  • … Darwin was very interested in hay fever. On 14 June [1873] he wrote to Blackley to thank him for …
  • … Aestivus (hay-fever or hay-asthma). And on   5 July 1873 Darwin wrote again, saying:  ‘The …
  • … in every direction. (Letter to C. H. Blackley, 5 July [1873] ) Blackley wrote back …
  • … regions of the atmosphere.  Blackley wrote on 7 July 1873 that his high altitude experiments had …
  • … remained elusive.   He wrote to Darwin on 11 July 1873 : The problem of cure has still …

Cross and self fertilisation

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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…

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  • … 5 December 1871 ). When Darwin began writing in February 1873, he asked Hooker for names of …
  • … system to follow ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 February 1873 ). Despite also working on experiments with …
  • … with this & get it published’ ( To Asa Gray, 11 March [1873] ). In April 1873, the …
  • … Translators, Reviewers, &c.’ ( To John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). In reply to his German …
  • … when it will be published’ ( To J. V. Carus, 8 May [1873] ). Hermann Müller also wrote from …
  • … my further working’ ( From Hermann Müller, 10 June 1873 ). Darwin, in turn, had found Müller’s …
  • … them by different routes’ ( To Hermann Müller, 30 May 1873 ). Although Darwin had completed a …
  • … must turn to the vegetable kingdom’ In June 1873, Delpino informed Darwin that …
  • … to avoid crossing ( From Federico Delpino, 18 June 1873 ). Darwin was intrigued. ‘I am very glad …
  • … Bees’, he told Delpino ( To Federico Delpino, 25 June [1873] ). Darwin’s suspicion that sweet peas …
  • … his crossing experiments through the early summer, by August 1873, Darwin decided to shift focus …
  • … effects of Interbreeding’ ( To J. V. Carus, 2 August [1873] ). In September, Darwin wrote a …
  • … conditions of life’ ( To  Nature , 20 September [1873] ). Just as the free-swimming barnacle …
  • … of their parents’ ( To Fritz Müller, 25 September 1873 ). But by March 1874, some doubts seemed to …

Your letter eternalized before us: From N. D. Doedes, 27 March 1873

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  Geoff Belknap looks at his favourite set of letters between two Dutch student fans of Darwin and the photographs they exchanged with each other.

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  • …   Geoff Belknap looks at his favourite set of letters between two Dutch …

Frank Chance

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The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles but also all sorts of small, dry specimens, mostly enclosed with letters. Many of these enclosures have become separated from the letters or lost altogether,…

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  • … However, while footnoting a second letter from Chance in 1873, a discovery was made.  This letter …
  • … (Letter from Frank Chance, 31 July–7 August 1873 ) The pony hair turned up in the …
  • … son William’s house near Southampton on 10 August [1873] . William had followed up on a similar …

Darwin and religion: a definitive web resource

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I am aware that if we admit a first cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came and how it arose.  Charles Darwin to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 Darwin is more famous, and more notorious than ever. Nowhere is this more evident than in the…

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  • …   Charles Darwin to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 Darwin is more famous, and more …

Francis Galton

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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…

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  • … including photography, anthropometry, and fingerprinting. In 1873, he proposed founding a society to …
  • … difficult to judge on these latter heads” ( 4 January [1873] ). Like most of his contemporaries, …
  • … particular inherited talents, except for business ( 28 May 1873 ). Galton grew increasingly …

Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year

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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…

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  • … Andrew Clark, whom he had been consulting since August 1873. Darwin had originally thought that …
  • … had suggested a new edition of the coral book in December 1873, when he realised the difficulty a …
  • …  vol. 21, letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 17 December [1873] ). Darwin himself had some trouble …
  • … of human evolution and inheritance himself.  In August 1873, he had published in the  Contemporary …
  • … the use of the Down schoolroom as a winter reading room in 1873 (see  Correspondence , vol. 21, …
  • … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 July [1874] ). In 1873, Hooker had begun a series of …
  • …  vol. 21, letter from Francis Darwin,  [11 October 1873] ). Darwin wasted several weeks in …
  • … Moulinié, who had died after a period of ill health in 1873.  Edmond Barbier corrected defects in …
  • … was a copy of Joseph Simms’s book on physiognomy (Simms 1873), which contained Darwin’s portrait to …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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  • … Letter 8701 - Lubbock, E. F . to Darwin, [1873] Ellen Lubbock, wife of naturalist …
  • … Letter 8989 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [28 July 1873] Mary Treat reports in detail on her …
  • … Letter 8989 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [28 July 1873] Mary Treat provides a detailed …
  • … 9156  - Wallace, A. R . to Darwin, [19 November 1873] Wallace reassures Darwin that …
  • … 9157  - Darwin to Da rwin, G. H., [20 November 1873] Darwin offers the work of …
  • … Letter 8719  - Darwin to Treat, M., [1 January 1873] Darwin gives Mary Treat close …
  • … 9157  - Darwin to Da rwin, G. H., [20 November 1873] Darwin offers the work of …

Language: key letters

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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…

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  • … 8962: Darwin, C. R. to Max Müller, Friedrich, 3 July 1873 In the 1870s, Darwin corresponded …

Francis Darwin

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Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences.  Francis completed…

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  • … work” (letter from E. A. Darwin, 25 September [1873] ).  Shortly afterwards, it was arranged for …

Diagrams and drawings in letters

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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…

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  • … in different species of  Gasteria ,  7 December 1873 F. F. Hallett's rough sketch …

Photograph album of Dutch admirers

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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…

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  • … Constantijn Costerus and his friend had written to Darwin in 1873, praising his works and describing …
  • … Letter to J. C. Costerus and N. D. Doedes, [22?] March 1873 ) The Dutch friends so …

4.23 Gegeef, 'Battle Field of Science'

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< Back to Introduction Another satirical print by ‘Gegeëf’, The Battle Field of Science and the Churches, is signed and dated 30 November 1873. It survives as a foldout plate in a twopenny journal, The Gauntlet, which, like Our National Church and…

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  • … Science and the Churches , is signed and dated 30 November 1873. It survives as a foldout plate …
  • … not to have progressed beyond its first issue of December 1873. A detached and damaged copy of The …
  • … (pseudonym) 
 date of creation 30 November 1873 
 computer-readable date 1873-11 …
  • … references and bibliography The Gauntlet 1 (Dec. 1873). Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley Papers: …

2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust

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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a …
  • … on at least two occasions during the construction (1872–1873). Most of the money for the building …
  • … saloon where Darwin’s bust was to be placed in 1873, together with a bust of Karl Ernst von Baer, …
  • … image Adolf von Hildebrand 
 date of creation 1873 
 computer-readable date …
  • … ‘The Zoological Station at Naples’, Nature 8 (29 May 1873), p. 81. Thomas Huxley’s letter to …

Exercise: Caricatures of Science

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Caricatures provide intriguing insights into both ideals and transgressions of gender. The following six images show caricatured representations of nineteenth-century men and women of science. They provide insight into the boundaries of what was deemed …

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  • … width="191"] Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1873)[/caption]   …
  • … and biographical sketches of men of the day , (1873).   …

Darwin's bad days

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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:

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  • … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …

Darwin’s queries on expression

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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…

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  • … Weale, J.P.M. [Jan 1873] Bedford, Cape of Good Hope, …

Darwin as mentor

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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…

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  • … Letter 9005b - Darwin to Treat, M., [12 August 1873] Darwin thanks Treat for sending over …
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