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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

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   21 February [1873] …
  • … DAR 94: 259–60 Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Feb [1873] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Bibliography White, Francis Buchanan. 1873. The influence of insect-agency on the …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 20 February 1873  and n.  4. CD refers to Botany for young people part II: …
  • … White’s article focused on moths as agents of fertilisation ( F.  B.  White 1873 ). …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 February 1873 . CD and Hooker were both intrigued by John …
  • … nests did not germinate (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 February 1873  and n.  3). CD …
  • … London, from 15 March until 10 April 1873 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). See letter from …

From Hubert Airy   3 January 1873

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HA’s paper on leaf arrangement is almost ready; asks CD to communicate it to the Royal Society. Seeks permission to quote from CD’s notes.

Author:  Hubert Airy
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 159: 24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8720

Matches: 9 hits

  • … From Hubert Airy   3 January 1873
  • … DAR 159: 24 Hubert Airy London, Dacre Park, 27 3 Jan 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  20 and Airy 1873 ), according to which leaf arrangement was a …
  • … Bibliography Airy, Hubert. 1873. On leaf-arrangement. Abstract. …
  • … by Charles Darwin. [Read 27 February 1873. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …
  • … 27. Dacre Park. Lee. S.E. 1873. Jan.  3. My dear Sir My paper “On Leaf-arrangement” is in …
  • … to his paper ‘On leaf-arrangement’ ( Airy 1873 ); it was communicated to the Royal Society …
  • … of London by CD and read on 27 February 1873. Airy’s father was George Biddell Airy , the …
  • … of Airy’s paper was published ( Airy 1873 ); it does not include the suggested text. The …

To William Spottiswoode   [8 April 1873]

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Discusses the arrangements being made to present a gift to Huxley [see 8872].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Spottiswoode
Date:  [8 Apr 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 169–70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8851

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To William Spottiswoode   [8 April 1873] …
  • … DAR 96: 169–70 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [8 Apr 1873] William Spottiswoode …
  • … Archer Hirst . CD evidently called on Spottiswoode on 7 April 1873 (see letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [6 April 1873] ). …
  • … and the letter to John Tyndall, 8 April [1873] . CD refers to Joseph Dalton Hooker , John …
  • … Henry Huxley , see the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [6 April 1873] and n.  2. See also letter …
  • … to T.  H.  Huxley, 23 April 1873 . Erasmus Alvey Darwin . Thomas …

From Francis Darwin   [26? October 1873]

Summary

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 …

Crookes, William. 1873. On the action of heat on gravitating masses. Abstract. [Read 11 December 1873.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 22 (1873–4): 37–41.

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Crookes, William. 1873. On the action of heat on gravitating masses. …
  • … Abstract. [Read 11 December 1873. ] Proceedings …
  • … of the Royal Society of London 22 (1873–4): 37–41. Online 22 …

Meldola, Raphael. 1873. On a certain class of cases of variable protective colouring in insects. [Read 4 February 1873.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1873): 153–62.

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Meldola, Raphael. 1873. On a certain class of cases of …
  • … variable protective colouring in insects. [Read 4 February 1873. ] Proceedings …
  • … of the Zoological Society of London (1873): 153–62. Online (BHL) 20,21 …

To Anton Dohrn   2 June [1873]

Summary

Thanks AD for kind review of Expression. AD’s remarks on necessity of tracing development of functions are novel and valuable.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:  2 June [1873]
Classmark:  Bibliothèque de Genève (D.O. autogr. 12/50)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8933

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To Anton Dohrn   2 June [1873] …
  • … D.O. autogr. 12/50) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 June [1873] Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn …
  • … CD may refer to the article in the 29 May 1873 issue of Nature on the …
  • … zoological station at Naples ( Dohrn 1873 ). …
  • … Bibliography Dohrn, Anton. 1873. The Zoological Station at …
  • … Naples. Nature , 29 May 1873, p. 81. Expression : The expression of the emotions in man …
  • … s review appeared in the Academy , 2 June 1873, pp.  209–12. Dohrn praised Expression for …
  • … chemistry (see also letter from Anton Dohrn, 7 June 1873 , and Nyhart 1995 , pp.  67–80). …

To Theodor Eimer   21 October [1873]

Summary

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 V. O. Kovalevsky   17 May 1873

Summary

Wishes to dedicate his memoir ["Monographie der Gattung Anthracotherium", Paleontographica 22 (1876): 131–347] to CD as founder of evolutionary theory.

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 May 1873
Classmark:  DAR 169: 94
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8914

Matches: 12 hits

  • … From V.  O.  Kovalevsky   17 May 1873
  • … Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) Munich 17 May 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … ungulate mammals (see V.  O.  Kovalevsky 1873–4 , pp. I–IV). Ludwig Rütimeyer also studied …
  • … in three parts in Palaeontographica ( V.  O.  Kovalevsky 1873–4 ). There is a lightly …
  • … first two parts (published in September 1873 and January 1874), inscribed from the author, …
  • … Palaeontographica. Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Vorwelt 22 (1873–6): 131–347. …
  • … Kovalevsky, Vladimir Onufrievich. 1873. On the osteology of …
  • … the Hyopotamidae. [Read 6 February 1873]. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society …
  • … Palaeontological Museum. Academy. 17 May 1873. Dear Sir I write You with a peculiar …
  • … 1–40. Kovalevsky, Vladimir Onufrievich. 1873–4. Monographie der Gattung Anthracotherium …
  • … Kovalevsky’s monograph ( V.  O.  Kovalevsky 1873–4 ) was dedicated to CD. Kovalevsky’s …
  • … of the Hyopotamidae’ ( V.  O.  Kovalevsky 1873 ) was published in the Philosophical …

To J. D. Hooker   12 September [1873]

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Thanks JDH and Thiselton-Dyer for useful information.

Is surprised Mimosa albida is not sensitive to water. Asks that they try again, or lend it to him.

Remembers a walk in Brazil in great bed of Mimosa.

After JDH left, CD was very bad, with much loss of memory and severe shocks continually passing through his brain.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  12 Sept [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 274–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9052

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   12 September [1873] …
  • … DAR 95: 274–6 Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Sept [1873] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 30 August 1873  and n.  6. The marjoram was one of three …
  • … had identified (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 30 August 1873  and n.  1). See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, 30 August 1873 . CD was carrying out a series of experiments …
  • … see letter to Francis Darwin, 15 August [1873] and n.  10). Orpington Station was the …
  • … railway station to Down. Hooker had visited Down on 23 August 1873, and CD had fallen …
  • … ill on 26 August 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letter to J.   …
  • … S.  Burdon Sanderson, 27 August 1873  and n.  3. Charles Paget Hooker’s note, forwarded by …

To John Fiske   3 November [1873]

Summary

CD is glad to hear of nature of JF’s work;

proposes that JF call when CD comes to London.

Has read JF’s attack on Agassiz ["Agassiz and Darwinism"] in Popular Science Monthly [3 (1873): 692–705].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Fiske
Date:  3 Nov [1873]
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9127

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  • … To John Fiske   3 November [1873] …
  • … The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Nov [1873] John Fiske …
  • … on Agassiz ["Agassiz and Darwinism"] in Popular Science Monthly [3 (1873): 692–705]. …
  • … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Fiske, 31 October 1873 . …
  • … Letter from John Fiske, 31 October 1873 . Fiske had come to London to complete his …
  • … Fiske 1874 ; see letter from John Fiske, 31 October 1873 and n.  2). CD stayed with …
  • … at 2 Bryanston Street, London, from 8 to 18 November 1873 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
  • … The lunch took place on 13 November 1873 and is described in J.  S.   Clark 1917 , 1: 478– …

To E. S. Morse   16 September 1873

Summary

Thanks for ESM’s paper ["On the systematic position of the Brachiopoda", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 15 (1873): 315–72]. "What a wonderful change … to look at these ""shells"" as ""worms""."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:  16 Sept 1873
Classmark:  Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9058

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To E.  S.  Morse   16 September 1873
  • … dealer) (no date) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Sept 1873 Edward Sylvester Morse …
  • … Brachiopoda", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 15 (1873): 315–72]. "What a wonderful change … …
  • … by a shell and a worm-like peduncle ( Morse 1873 , pp.  323–4). Annelida is now a separate …
  • … Bibliography Morse, Edward Sylvester. 1873. On the systematic position of the Brachiopoda. …
  • … Morse’s essay ( Morse 1873 ) dealt with the systematic position of the Brachiopoda. CD’s …
  • … were soft-bodied, and therefore did not leave fossil remains. See Morse 1873 , p.  367. …
  • … CD underlined and scored this statement in his copy of Morse 1873 . Morse had included …
  • … sections of Lingula and an annelid in Morse 1873 , p.  324 (fig.  7) and p.  319 (fig.   …

From George Cupples   4 June 1873

Summary

J. V. Carus’ lecture.

Edinburgh intellectual climate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s visit to Edinburgh.

J. H. Stirling did not write anonymous review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Suggests T. Spencer Baynes of St Andrews. [? T. S. Baynes, "Darwin on expression", 137 (1873): 492–528.]

Author:  George Cupples
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 June 1873
Classmark:  DAR 161: 299
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8935

Matches: 12 hits

  • … From George Cupples   4 June 1873
  • … DAR 161: 299 George Cupples Guard Bridge 4 June 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Baynes of St Andrews. [? T. S. Baynes, "Darwin on expression", 137 (1873): 492–528. ] …
  • … Bibliography [Baynes, Thomas Spencer. ] 1873. [Review of Expression . ] Edinburgh Review …
  • … of the unfavourable review of Expression that had appeared in the April 1873 issue of the …
  • … Edinburgh Review ( [Baynes 1873] ; see letter to …
  • … George Cupples, 28 April [1873] ). CD had suggested that James Hutchison Stirling might …
  • … be the author of the review in his letter to Cupples of 28 April [1873] . See …
  • … also letter from George Cupples, 1 May 1873 . The review was in fact by Thomas Spencer …
  • … Waldo Emerson visited England and Scotland in the spring of 1873; he was in Edinburgh …
  • … for one day, 8 May 1873, to visit Stirling ( Ireland 1882 , p.  21). Emerson had visited …
  • … see letter from George Cupples, 1 May 1873 and n.  3). Cupples had given CD an Irish …

From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin   24 April [1873]

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Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.

Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].

Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  24 Apr [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B88
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8874

Matches: 9 hits

  • … From E.  A.  Darwin to Emma Darwin   24 April [1873] …
  • … DAR 105: B88 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated 24 Apr [1873] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
  • … review of Expression , Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair …
  • … been raised for him (see letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 23 April 1873 , and letter from T.   …
  • … H.  Huxley, 24 April 1873 ). Expression …
  • … was harshly reviewed in the April 1873 issue of the Edinburgh Review (137: 492–528). The …
  • … life’ ( T.  H.  Huxley 1869 ; see [Baynes] 1873 , p.  501). Spencer may have worried that …
  • … Bibliography [Baynes, Thomas Spencer. ] 1873. [Review of Expression . ] Edinburgh Review …
  • … see letter to Charles Lyell, [9 April 1873] ). The Great Western Royal Hotel was next to …

From Anton Dohrn   7 June 1873

Summary

News of Naples Zoological Station developments.

His remarks on physiology in the Academy were aimed at Prof. Ludwig and his school.

The usual "exact" methods in experimental physiology want only a little pushing to put an end to superstition.

Recounts how he had worked out the explanation of Rhizocephala morphology via the Anelasma – an example of both the power of inheritance and the power of genealogical investigation. R. Kossman’s work has now confirmed AD’s explanation.

Author:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 June 1873
Classmark:  DAR 162: 213
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8937

Matches: 17 hits

  • … From Anton Dohrn   7 June 1873
  • … DAR 162: 213 Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn Naples 7 June 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … See letter to Anton Dohrn, 2 June [1873] . Dohrn’s review …
  • … of Expression appeared in the Academy , 2 June 1873, pp.  209–11. The Academy was a weekly …
  • … see also letter to George Cupples, 28 April [1873] ). St George Jackson Mivart had written …
  • … 1874): 97–136. Kossmann, Robby August. 1873. Suctoria und Lepadidae. Untersuchungen über …
  • … of Habilitationsschrift, Würzburg, 1873. ] Arbeiten aus dem Zoologisch-Zootomischen …
  • … Dohrn Naples. Palazzo Torlonia. | 7. June 1873. P.S. — It will perhaps interest You as in …
  • … see letter from Anton Dohrn, 27 January 1873 ). He was probably visited by William Erasmus …
  • … from Emma Darwin to Horace Darwin, 28 [January 1873] (DAR 258: 572), letter from G.  H.   …
  • … Darwin to Emma Darwin, [6? March 1873] (DAR 210.2: 27)). Dohrn had approached the Prussian …
  • … see letter from Anton Dohrn, 27 January 1873 and n.  2, and Correspondence vol.  20, …
  • … 1872 ). See letter to Anton Dohrn, 2 June [1873] and n.  3. Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig …
  • … essentia est existentia” ’ ( Academy 4 (1873): 212). The quotation attributed to Baruch de …
  • … squalicola in his letter of 27 January 1873 . See Living Cirripedia (1851) , pl. IV, …
  • … were reported in his Habilitationsschrift of 1873, later published in Arbeiten aus dem …
  • … Zootomischen Institut in Würzburg ( Kossmann 1873 ). Kossmann concluded that the filaments …

From Raphael Meldola   24 March 1873

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Gives some information on variation of ocelli between sexes in butterfly species.

Proposes publishing a series of papers on mimicry.

Author:  Raphael Meldola
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Mar 1873
Classmark:  DAR 89: 83–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8821

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  • … From Raphael Meldola   24 March 1873
  • … DAR 89: 83–4 Raphael Meldola London, John St, 21 24 Mar 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … in insects at the Zoological Society of London in February 1873; it was published later …
  • … in the year ( Meldola 1873 ). No further parts were published. For CD and Meldola’s …
  • … edition. London: John Murray. 1874. Meldola, Raphael. 1873. On a certain class of cases of …
  • … Street, | Bedford Row, W.C. March 24 th . 1873 Dear Sir, At a meeting of the Entomological …
  • … variable protective colouring in insects. [Read 4 February 1873. ] Proceedings …
  • … of the Zoological Society of London (1873): 153–62. …
  • … Entomological Society of London on 17 March 1873, the vice-president, Henry Walter Bates , …
  • … of the Entomological Society of London (1873): xiii). In Descent 2d ed. , CD expanded his …

To F. S. B. François de Chaumont   3 February [1873]

Summary

Thanks for J. D. MacDonald’s paper ["Distribution of invertebrata", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 218–23].

CD feels lines of genetic connection between animals offer a most difficult problem; Ernst Haeckel may have done mischief by facing the difficulty.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Date:  3 Feb [1873]
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (RAMC/474/2); Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8757

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  • … To F.  S.  B.  François de Chaumont   3 February [1873] …
  • … Museum Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Feb [1873] Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont …
  • … the letter from F.  S.  B.  F.  de Chaumont, 31 January 1873 . See letter from F.  S.   …
  • … B.  F.  de Chaumont, 31 January 1873  and n.  1. …
  • … John Denis Macdonald’s paper was read on 20 March 1873 and published in the Proceedings of …
  • … the Royal Society of London ( Macdonald 1873 ). Macdonald had drawn up a physiological …
  • … Berlin: Georg Reimer. Macdonald, John Denis. 1873. On the distribution of the invertebrata …
  • … the theory of evolution. [Read 20 March 1873. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …
  • … scheme for invertebrates ( Macdonald 1873 , pp.  219, 223). This classification reversed …
  • … F.  S.  B.  F.  de Chaumont, 31 January 1873  and n.  2. In Expression , pp.  265–6, CD …

From J. D. Hooker   [7 April 1873]

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Thinks the Huxley fund should be done. Difficulty will be getting him to accept it.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [7 Apr 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 103: 153–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8847

Matches: 8 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [7 April 1873] …
  • … DAR 103: 153–4 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [7 Apr 1873] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Huxley’ took place on Tuesday 8 April 1873 and Hooker also came to lunch on Wednesday 9  …
  • … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [6 April 1873] . …
  • … The Monday following 6 April 1873 was 7 April. See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [6 April 1873] . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), …
  • … Harriet Hooker had been to lunch with the Darwins on 28 March 1873. See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [6 April 1873] and n.  1. The reference is to Thomas Henry Huxley . …

To J. D. Hooker   17 February 1873

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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

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   17 February 1873
  • … DAR 94: 257–8 Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Feb 1873 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … the article in his letter to Nature , [before 13 February 1873]. …
  • … Recommends Spalding’s article on instinct in Macmillan’s Magazine [27 (1873): 265–81]. …
  • … system of botany (Le Maout and Decaisne 1873, pp.  995–1023). Douglas Alexander Spalding’s …
  • … appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine , February 1873 ( Spalding 1873b ). CD had mentioned …
  • … Bradbury & Evans. Spalding, Douglas Alexander. 1873. Instinct. With original observations …
  • … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Feb 17— 1873 My dear Hooker I am drawing up an acct of my …
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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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