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To J. D. Hooker   4 August [1873]

Summary

Starts tomorrow for visit to Farrer and Effie [Euphemia Farrer, daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood]. Has not done such a feat [i.e., staying as a guest of someone outside the immediate family?] for 25 years.

Has been half killing himself with Drosera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  4 Aug [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 268–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9000

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   4 August [1873] …
  • … DAR 94: 268–9 Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Aug [1873] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 3 August 1873  and n.  1). CD had resumed his experiments …
  • … from mid-June (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II) and letter to J.  V.  Carus, 2 August [1873] ). …
  • … this letter and the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 3 August 1873 . CD visited Thomas Henry …
  • … Euphemia (Effie) Farrer from 5 to 9 August 1873; he visited William Erasmus Darwin from 9  …
  • … and Hooker visited Down on 23 August 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Hooker had …

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

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To Hubert Airy   [before 21 January 1873] …
  • … Library (MS. Add. 7656: RS899) Charles Robert Darwin Down [before 21 Jan 1873] Hubert Airy …
  • … Bibliography Airy, Hubert. 1873. On leaf-arrangement. Abstract. …
  • … by Charles Darwin. [Read 27 February 1873. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …
  • … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Hubert Airy, 21 January 1873 . CD …
  • … communicated Airy’s paper on phyllotaxy ( Airy 1873 ) to the Royal Society of London . CD …
  • … See letter from Hubert Airy, 3 January 1873 . The copy is written on the back of a letter …

From William Ogle   [after 5 May 1873]

Summary

Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller’s book on fertilisation [Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].

Author:  William Ogle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 5 May 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 173: 7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8705

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From William Ogle   [after 5 May 1873] …
  • … DAR 173: 7 William Ogle Oxford and Cambridge Club [after 5 May 1873] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … for reference to Hermann Müller’s book on fertilisation [ Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. …
  • … Bibliography Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten und die …
  • … and the letter to William Ogle, 5 May [1873] . CD had recommended Hermann Müller’s book on …
  • … the fertilisation of plants by means of insects ( H.  Müller 1873 ; see letter to …
  • … William Ogle, 5 May [1873] ). In 1876, Ogle made botanical observations while visiting the …

To M. D. Conway   12 September [1873]

Summary

Thanks for strange debate, which CD returns. Principle of evolution has first-rate supporters in [Edward Sylvester?] Morse and Theodore Nicholas Gill.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:  12 Sept [1873]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9051

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To M.  D.  Conway   12 September [1873] …
  • … Finney Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Sept [1873] Moncure Daniel Conway …
  • … letter and the letter from M.  D.  Conway, 10 September [1873] ). See letter from M.   …
  • … D.  Conway, 10 September [1873] . See letter from M.   …
  • … D.  Conway, 10 September [1873] and n.  2. George Clinton Swallow had challenged CD’s …
  • … letter from M.  D.  Conway, 10 September [1873] and n.  4); in the discussion following …
  • … had defended CD’s arguments (see New York Tribune , 23 August 1873, p.  2). Emma Darwin’ …
  • … that Henry Willey , CD’s physician, visited on 5 September 1873. See letter from M.   …
  • … D.  Conway, 10 September [1873] and n.  2. Conway’s book was published under the title …

To Friedrich Max Müller   3 July 1873

Summary

Thanks FMM for his "Lectures [on Mr Darwin’s philosophy of language", Fraser’s Mag. n.s. 7 (1873): 525–41, 659–78].

CD is not worthy to be FMM’s adversary as he knows very little about language and, being fully convinced man is descended from some lower animal, he is forced to believe a priori that language has developed from inarticulate cries.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Friedrich Max Müller
Date:  3 July 1873
Classmark:  DAR 146: 425
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8962

Matches: 6 hits

  • … To Friedrich Max Müller   3 July 1873
  • … DAR 146: 425 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 July 1873 Friedrich Max Müller …
  • … Pamphlet Collection–CUL.  See letter from Friedrich Max Müller, 29 June 1873 and n.  1. …
  • … See letter from Friedrich Max Müller, 29 June 1873  and n.  2. …
  • … philosophy of language", Fraser’s Mag. n.s. 7 (1873): 525–41, 659–78]. CD is not worthy to …
  • … Down July 3. 1873 Dear Sir, I am much obliged for your kind note and present of your …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   4 April 1874

Summary

Wants some plants for observation and for experimentation on their powers of movement.

Asks WTT-D to make observations on plants with sensitive stamens or pistil.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  4 Apr 1874
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 5–6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9387

Matches: 11 hits

  • … Dyer, W. T. , Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 5–6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Apr …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 30 October [1873] ). CD had …
  • … Acacia farnesiana from Kew in October 1873 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Outwards book , …
  • … on leaves in his letter to CD of 14 August 1873 ( Correspondence vol.  21; see also letter …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 20 December [1873] ). …
  • … the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 31 October 1873 ( Correspondence vol.  21). The list has not …
  • … to the book ( Correspondence vol.  21, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 30 August 1873 ). CD …
  • … ordered plants from George Rollisson in 1873 (see Correspondence vol.  21, letters to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 18 October [1873] and …
  • … 3 November [1873] ). Stapelia is a genus of stem succulent plants; most are native to …
  • … lusitanicum (Portuguese sundew or dewy pine) in 1873 ( Correspondence vol.  21, letter to …

To Eduard Koch   20 December [1873]

Summary

Thanks for copy of translation of Variation

and the "admirable work on the microscopical structure of rock" [C. G. Ehrenberg, Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
Date:  20 Dec [1873]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9186

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To Eduard Koch   20 December [1873] …
  • … collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Dec [1873] Eduard Koch E. Schweizerbart’sche …
  • … the microscopical structure of rock" [C. G. Ehrenberg, Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)]. …
  • … Bibliography Rosenbusch, Harry. 1873–7. Mikroskopische Physiographie der Mineralien und …
  • … edition of Variation (Carus trans.  1873) and to the first volume of Harry Rosenbusch’s …
  • … and rocks, published by Koch’s firm, E.  Schweizerbart’sche Verlagshandlung, in 1873 ( …
  • … Rosenbusch 1873–7 ). The first volume has not been found, but the second volume is in the …

From Hermann Müller   19 May 1873

Summary

Praises Expression.

Reports on Fritz Müller’s observations of cross- and self-fertilisation. HM will cultivate the two forms [i.e., mainly self-fertilised and mainly cross-fertilised] in the way CD has described.

He continues his observation of wild flowers. Encloses drawing of Viola tricolor with notes on its self-fertility.

Author:  Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 May 1873
Classmark:  DAR 76: B181–2, DAR 77: 139
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8907

Matches: 14 hits

  • … From Hermann Müller   19 May 1873
  • … 139 Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller Lippstadt 19 May 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … see letter from Hermann Müller, 27 May 1873 . The page numbers refer to the manuscript …
  • … a copy of Expression in return for Müller’s gift of H.  Müller 1873 (see letter from …
  • … Hermann Müller, 28 February 1873 ). CD had evidently asked Müller the same …
  • … letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 15 May 1873 ) in a now missing letter. Müller refers to …
  • … Garland Publishing. 1990. Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten …
  • … the letter from Hermann Müller, 27 May 1873 . The reference is probably to Anton Kerner …
  • … plant fertilisation (Kerner von Marilaun 1873). CD evidently sent a copy of Bennett  …
  • … Mr.  Bennett in the article May 15, 1873 of the “Nature”, you allude to, has published the …
  • … There is paper by A.  W.  Bennett Nature 1873 May 15 th p.  49. on the Fert of Wild …
  • … of flowers by means of insects ( H.  Müller 1873 ), including some species of Viola ( …
  • … of Müller’s observations ( H.  Müller 1873 , p.  118). Norman Lockyer was the editor of …
  • … on after the publication of H.  Müller 1873  was added to the English translation of …

From Hermann Müller   1 July 1873

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Sends a note on R. Caspary’s observations of Corydalis self-fertilisation [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 331].

Has begun his experiments on the self- and cross-fertilised flowers.

Author:  Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 July 1873
Classmark:  DAR 76: B184
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8961

Matches: 9 hits

  • … From Hermann Müller   1 July 1873
  • … B184 Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller Lippstadt 1 July 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … on Viola tricolor in his letter of 10 June 1873 . CD discussed the self-sterility of …
  • … Henneschen Buchhandlung. Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten …
  • … Lippstadt, July 1. 1873. My dear Sir I thank you very sincerely for your kindness in …
  • … found in “Botanische Zeitung 27 Juni 1873. Nr.  26” the following note: “ Sitzungsberichte …
  • … have not been identified, but H.  Müller 1873  was praised in George Bentham’s anniversary …
  • … see the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 28 June 1873  and n.  6). Müller quotes from a report by …
  • … 1833 ; see letter from Hermann Müller, 10 June 1873 ). Malva sylvestris (‘silvestris’ is a …

From Ernst Haeckel   8 October 1873

Summary

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 J. D. Hooker   19 August 1873

Summary

Asks JDH to inquire of gardeners at Kew what they think about injury to plants from watering during sunshine. Wishes to experiment. He is already convinced that drops of water do not act as burning lenses.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  19 Aug 1873
Classmark:  DAR 94: 272–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9017

Matches: 6 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   19 August 1873
  • … 94: 272–3 Charles Robert Darwin Bassett Down letterhead 19 Aug 1873 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … For George Payne’s observations, see the letters from T.  H.  Farrer, 12 August 1873  and …
  • … 12 August [1873] . …
  • … Hooker visited Down on 23 August 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … Kent. [Bassett, Southampton. ] Aug 19 th 1873 My dear Hooker The next time you walk round …

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 John Tyndall   18 April [1873]

Summary

The Huxley fund amounts to £1955. CD trembles about THH’s answer.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Tyndall
Date:  18 Apr [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8867

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To John Tyndall   18 April [1873] …
  • … DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Apr [1873] John Tyndall …
  • … Anne Huxley . See also letter to subscribers to T.  H.  Huxley’s gift, [25 April 1873] . …
  • … the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Tyndall, 16 April 1873 . See …
  • … letter from John Tyndall, 16 April 1873  and n.  2. John Lubbock’s bank, Robarts, …
  • … also letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 23 April 1873 . Huxley was in Aberdeen ( letter from T.   …
  • … H.  Huxley to Michael Foster, 22 April 1873 ( Dawson  1946 , p.  51, no.  61)). CD …

To J. T. Moggridge   27 August 1873

Summary

Comments on experiments of touching seeds with acid.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Traherne Moggridge
Date:  27 Aug 1873
Classmark:  DAR 146: 380
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9030

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To J.  T.  Moggridge   27 August 1873
  • … DAR 146: 380 Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 Aug 1873 John Traherne Moggridge …
  • … germination in his letter of 22 August 1873 . In his experiments Moggridge had used the …
  • … acid in distilled water (see letter from J.  T.  Moggridge, 22 August 1873 ). Emma Darwin’ …
  • … s diary (DAR 242) reported for 26 August 1873 that CD was very unwell and had suffered …
  • … loss for twelve hours. See letter from J.  T.  Moggridge, 22 August 1873  and n.  4. …
  • … Down Beckenham Aug.  27 th . 1873 My dear Sir I thank you for your very interesting …

To T. H. Huxley   4 November 1873

Summary

Answers THH’s query about W. H. Flower; gives the amount he contributed to the gift. Advises against returning it, even anonymously. Hopes WHF’s health improves.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  4 Nov 1873
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 303)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9131

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   4 November 1873
  • … Archives (Huxley 5: 303) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Nov 1873 Thomas Henry Huxley …
  • … See letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 3 November 1873 . William Henry Flower contributed to …
  • … by Huxley’s personal friends in April 1873 to relieve his financial problems (see letter …
  • … to subscribers to T.  H.  Huxley’s gift, [25 April 1873] and n.  4). See letter …
  • … from T.  H.  Huxley, 3 November 1873  and n.  5. …
  • … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Nov 4. 1873 My dear Huxley Your intentions about poor Flower are …

To Albert Gaudry   19 February 1873

Summary

Thanks for gift of first part of AG’s magnificent work [Animaux fossiles du mont Léberon (1873)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Date:  19 Feb 1873
Classmark:  Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b.7, fasc. 28, doc. 5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8776

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To Albert Gaudry   19 February 1873
  • … b.7, fasc. 28, doc. 5) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Feb 1873 Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry …
  • … gift of first part of AG’s magnificent work [ Animaux fossiles du mont Léberon (1873)]. …
  • … du Mont Léberon (Vaucluse) (Gaudry et al. 1873). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. …
  • … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Feb 19 1873 Dear Sir I am greatly obliged by the gift of the …

To ?   28 November [1873]

Summary

Will not require assistance of correspondent’s cousin in correcting his MS [2d ed. of Descent]. His son [George] will undertake it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  28 Nov [1873]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9163

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To ?    28 November [1873] …
  • … Robert M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 Nov [1873] Unidentified …
  • … the letter to G.  H.  Darwin, 24 November 1873 . CD was looking for someone to assist him …
  • … edition of Descent (see letter to A.  R.  Wallace, 17 November 1873 , and letter to G.   …
  • … H.  Darwin, 20 November 1873 ). George Howard Darwin . …

To J. D. Hooker   6 November 1873

Summary

Is coming to stay in London and wants to arrange a visit to Kew to talk with JDH, see the Eucalypti, and observe Mimosa albida.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  6 Nov 1873
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 f.4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9135

Matches: 6 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   6 November 1873
  • … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 f.4) Charles Robert …
  • … Darwin Down 6 Nov 1873 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … vol. 21, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 3 November [1873] and n.  5, and Movement in plants . …
  • … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Nov.  6 1873 My dear Hooker We go to London tomorrow morning to “ …
  • … Buckley Litchfield , from 8 to 18 November 1873 (see Correspondence vol. 21, Appendix II). …

From Hubert Airy   8 January 1874

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W. J. Beal’s paper ["Phyllotaxis of cones", Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 449–53] shows incompleteness of HA’s theory, but does not invalidate his basic principles on origin of leaf arrangement or the broad applicability of the theory.

Author:  Hubert Airy
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Jan 1874
Classmark:  DAR 159: 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9232

Matches: 9 hits

  • … s paper ["Phyllotaxis of cones", Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 449–53] shows incompleteness of HA’s …
  • … Bibliography Airy, Hubert. 1873. On leaf-arrangement. Abstract. …
  • … by Charles Darwin. [Read 27 February 1873. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …
  • … Read 30 April 1874. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 22 (1873–4): 298–307. …
  • … Beal, William James. 1873. Phyllotaxis of cones. American Naturalist 7: 449–53. …
  • … CD had lent Airy the August 1873 issue of American Naturalist ; it contained William James …
  • … were necessarily excluded by the geometry of the case ( Beal 1873 , p.  451). For Beal’s …
  • … patterns in cones from five different tree species, see Beal 1873 , pp.  451–2. Airy’s …
  • … leaf arrangement) was published in H.  Airy 1873 ; he corrected and extended his theory in …

From J. D. Hooker   20 February 1873

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Delighted with John Traherne Moggridge’s book [Harvesting ants (1873)].

Has suggested he plant seeds in various receptacles. Only two explanations for failure of seeds to germinate [in ants’ nests]: lack of circulating air or formic acid.

Has undertaken a botany primer for Macmillan.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 103: 149–50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8777

Matches: 8 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   20 February 1873
  • … DAR 103: 149–50 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 20 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Moggridge’s book [ Harvesting ants (1873)]. Has suggested he plant seeds in various …
  • … Press. 1998. Moggridge, John Traherne. 1873. Harvesting ants and trap-door spiders: notes …
  • … Moggridge’s Harvesting ants and trap-door spiders ( Moggridge 1873 ) was published …
  • … in January 1873 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
  • … 1 February 1873, p.  76). …
  • … In Moggridge 1873 , pp.  24–5, Moggridge had noted that ants were able to check the …
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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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