To ? 4 May [1873]
Summary
Explains that his publisher has erred in announcing his book [Cross and self-fertilisation] prematurely. [See 8890 and 8897.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 4 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8897A |
From George Hookham 6 May [1873]
Summary
A fact on expression: sheep do use hoofs in fighting.
Author: | George Hookham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 266 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7742 |
To [W. W. Baxter?] 11 May [1873]
Summary
Requests litmus paper and gum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 11 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Herter Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8319 |
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 |
From Francis Galton [before 28 May 1873]
Summary
Collecting information about antecedents of eminent men of science. Sends questionnaire.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 May 1873] |
Classmark: | Pearson 1914–30, 2: 177–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8889 |
From J. V. Carus [before 8 May 1873]
Summary
Publisher [Schweizerbart] has seen CD’s new book advertised [Cross and self-fertilisation] and wishes to publish a German translation of it.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 8 May 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8890 |
From George Cupples 1 May 1873
Summary
Missed hostile review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Agrees it might be by J. H. Stirling [see 8935], who has written in a deplorably polemical style on Huxley and Sir William Hamilton.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 298 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8891 |
To Federico Delpino 1 May 1873
Summary
Asks whether, in Italy, varieties of Lathyrus odoratus, Pisum sativum, and Phaseolus multiflorus must be grown separately to come true.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 1 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8892 |
To Isidoro Dell’Oro 2 May 1873
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending him an account of silkworms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Isidoro Dell’Oro |
Date: | 2 May 1873 |
Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 02.014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8893 |
To John Tyndall 2 [May] 1873
Summary
Hopes JT does not think him over-cautious in requesting the return of the copies [of Huxley’s letter]. Has sent Huxley a list of the subscribers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 2 [May] 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 19 (EH 88205957) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8894 |
From Gerard Krefft 3 May 1873
Summary
Suggests hopping lizards may show the connection between reptiles and birds as proposed by Huxley.
Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8895 |
To John Murray 4 May [1873]
Summary
Asks Murray not to announce Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 May [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 436 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8897 |
To A. W. Bennett 5 May [1873]
Summary
Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | 5 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8898 |
To Felix von Luschan 5 May 1873
Summary
Thanks FL for sending his essays and some photographs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix von Luschan |
Date: | 5 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. Felix v. Luschan: Darwin, Charles) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8899 |
From K. E. von Baer 5 May 1873
Summary
Has been told CD wants photo of him; sends one. Requests a portrait photo of CD for his album. KEvB apologises for his English and his shaky hand; he is 88 years old.
Author: | Karl Ernst von Baer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8900 |
To Hermann Müller 5 May 1873
Summary
Comments on HM’s book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Particularly glad to read historical sketch and discussion of work of C. K. Sprengel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 5 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 434 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8901 |
To William Ogle 5 May [1873]
Summary
Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung den Blumen durch Insekten (1873).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 5 May [1873] |
Classmark: | James P. Evans (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8901F |
From W. F. Barrett 6 May 1873
Summary
Because of current interest in hereditary instinct, relates incident about a baby alligator, just emerged from its shell, attempting to bite a human.
Author: | William Fletcher Barrett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8902 |
To T. B. Leffen 7 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for note and information.
Mentions venomous caterpillars in Africa and Australia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Bray Leffen |
Date: | 7 May 1873 |
Classmark: | State Library Victoria, Melbourne (MS 6219, Box 231/3. Diary of G. F. Belcher vol. 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8903 |
To W. M. Canby 7 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for the Dionaea leaves. They support CD’s anticipation that they are adapted to let the smaller fry escape [see Insectivorous plants, p. 312].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Marriott Canby |
Date: | 7 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Natural History Society of Delaware |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8904 |
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