From A. R. Wallace [19 November 1873]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9156 |
From T. R. Clephan 19 February 1873
Summary
Reports that he has the power of moving his left ear towards the top of his head [see Descent 1: 21].
Author: | Thomas Richmond Clephan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8775 |
From A. R. Wallace 14 January 1873
Summary
Is not surprised CD dissents from his criticisms [of Expression?]. Holds to his own interpretation of the expression of astonishment.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8736 |
From J. R. Martin 22 February 1873
Summary
CD is asked to increase his shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co. Ltd., which has trebled its capital in the last year and is paying a 6% dividend.
Author: | John Royle Martin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8781 |
From A. R. Wallace 18 November 1873
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B118–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9151 |
From R. B. Litchfield 26 February 1873
Author: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8787 |
To Francis Darwin 16 April [1873]
Summary
"Try only 1 or 2 drops of Formic A[cid]."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8862 |
To Francis Darwin [17 April 1873]
Summary
Fears all the seeds are dead. Will try with less vapour of formic acid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [17 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8866 |
To Francis Darwin [before 26 June 1873]
Summary
Sends FD £5 for the loan of his microscope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [before 26 June 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13794 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Fears [CD’s] albumen theory will not work because albumen is coagulated and filtered out in making extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamine, and colchicine [alkaloid poisons].
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9198 |
From Francis Darwin [15–18 September 1873]
Summary
FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15–18 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156F |
From Francis Darwin [1873]
Summary
Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8713F |
To Horace Darwin [15 October 1873]
Summary
Sends notes on waxy secretion on leaves for F. M. Balfour; cannot procure any more Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | [15 Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 258: 548a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9096F |
To Francis Darwin [before 15 April 1873]
Summary
Sends to Pantlludw [North Wales] bottle of formic acid. FD and Amy [Darwin] can search for spawn. If found, keep in two basins and add 6 drops of acid to one and look for differences.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [before 15 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8848A |
From Francis Darwin [19 September 1873]
Summary
Reports that S. W. Moore may be able to provide various substances for CD’s research on the digestive power of Drosera (sundew).
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059F |
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 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9199 |
To Francis Darwin [4 September 1873]
Summary
Asks FD to bring any book that gives the affinities of the various earths, alkalis and metals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [4 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.9: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9040F |
To Francis Darwin 23 October [1873]
Summary
Wants FD to look at the little lateral leaflets of Desmodium. CD has "a wild hypothesis that the little leaflets may be tendrils reconverted into leaflets".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9110 |
From E. C. Rye 29 August 1873
Summary
Reports a paper by H. von Kiesenwetter [Berliner Entomol. Z. 16 (1872): 370] on the Malthodes, some species of which appear to have a sex ratio with females greatly outnumbering males, suggesting the occurrence of parthenogenesis.
Author: | Edward Caldwell Rye |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9032 |
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