To C. J. Plumptre 19 August [1873?]
Summary
Agrees François Delsarte’s view [that the eyes do not show emotion, only indicate the object of it], is probably wrong.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles John Plumptre |
Date: | 19 Aug [1873?] |
Classmark: | Plumptre 1876, pp. 224–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10581F |
From C. L. Brace [August? 1873]
Author: | Charles Loring Brace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Aug? 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 273 (fragile letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8717 |
From F. J. Wedgwood [August–September? 1873]
Author: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Aug–Sept? 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 87–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8994 |
From Thomas Belt 2 August 1873
Summary
Sends extracts, from his forthcoming book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)], about the secretion by plants of honey to attract the protection of ants. Invites CD’s comments.
Author: | Thomas Belt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8995 |
To J. V. Carus 2 August [1873]
Summary
Regrets he cannot receive JVC at Down on Monday as he would then be too unwell to travel on Tuesday, when he must leave for a visit [to Abinger Hall, according to the Journal].
Has been working hard on Drosera and Dionaea. His next book will be on these plants and not, as he had intended, "On evil effects of Inter breeding".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 2 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859 Charles, Darwin, Bl. 106–107) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8996 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 August [1873]
Summary
Thinks highly of GHD’s article [probably "On beneficial restrictions to liberty of marriage", Contemp. Rev. 22 (1873): 412–26]. A good omen for the future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8997 |
To Thomas Belt [7 August 1873]
Summary
Discusses utility of plant secretions to ants.
Will read TB’s book when published [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Belt |
Date: | [7 Aug 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8998 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 August 1873
Summary
Returned last night. Huxley, left at Baden Baden, remarkably well.
Would like to come to Down with Strachey.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8999 |
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 |
From J. O. W. Haweis 8 August [1873]
Summary
On inheritance of gesture.
Author: | John Oliver Willyams Haweis |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9001 |
From Gerard Krefft 8 August 1873
Summary
Sends paper to be published in Sydney Mail on primitive man.
Sends lists of earth [castings] made by worms [see Earthworms, p. 127],
and a catalogue of Australian Lepidoptera.
Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9002 |
To Frank Chance 10 August [1873]
Summary
Thanks [FC] for his letter concerning a pony changing colour during the winter,
and remarks on the erection of human body hair, goose-skin, and the influence of colour and temperature on skin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frank Chance |
Date: | 10 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9003F |
From Raphael Meldola 11 August 1873
Summary
Encloses a copy of his paper on mimicry [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 153–61].
Asks whether large variations are more often limited to one sex than slight ones.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9004 |
To Raphael Meldola 13 August [1873]
Summary
Thanks RM for his paper on mimicry.
Cannot answer RM’s query because he believes it impossible to define large variations.
Believes monstrosities are generally injurious and are not often, if ever, taken advantage of in nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 13 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9006 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 August 1873
Summary
Asks JDH why so many plants are protected by a thin layer of waxy matter or with fine hairs.
Wrote to John Smith for a plant of Oxalis sensitiva, but it has not acted well.
Rejoices over Ayrton’s retirement. Hopes W. P. Adam, his successor, is a good sort of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 270–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9007 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 13 August [1873]
Summary
Answers CD’s questions of 25 July [8987] about temperatures at which cold-blooded animals are killed.
Doubts heat rigor was induced in Drosera. Gives his view of the relation of excitability to increase in temperature.
Suggests experiment to show that electrical changes in plant are the same as in animal muscle and nerve [see Insectivorous plants, p. 318].
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 34–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9008 |
From E. T. Gardner 13 August 1873
Summary
Sends CD an excerpt from N. Y. Tribune [missing] about an account by W. D. Whitney, of Yale, of scientific work in Colorado.
Author: | E. T Gardner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9009 |
From Francis Darwin 14 August [1873]
Summary
Has found Lathyrus maritima on the cliffs near Barmouth.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9009F |
From J. D. Hooker 14 August 1873
Summary
Has observed CD’s points. Except for leaves of Nelumbium, would have supposed both wax and hairs were connected with absorption or respiratory functions. May subserve some function connected with rays of sun. Watering most prejudicial in the hot sun: a splendid subject for experiments.
Adam is a good man.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 167–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9011 |
From Francis Darwin [16 or 17 August 1873]
Summary
Gives his opinion on why tubes of peas split to the right of the loose stamens [inLathyrus sylvestris].
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 or 17 Aug 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 140–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9012 |
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