From A. R. Wallace [19 November 1873]
Summary
Thinks CD’s son George would be more satisfactory than ARW for the work on Descent.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9156 |
To G. H. Darwin 20 November 1873
Summary
CD is looking for editorial assistance in preparing a new edition of Descent, and inquires whether GHD might be interested in taking on such a tedious job.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9157 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 November 1873
Summary
Has been working hard on Mimosa albida. Could JDH ever make its opposite leaflets shut up close, as in sleep, when he irritated them? CD doubts they do, except in sleep. Thinks movement a protection against water.
Has examined only one specimen of Eucalyptus.
Cannot believe JDH’s results from cutting a hole in pitcher in his Nepenthes experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 306–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9158 |
To G. H. Darwin 24 November 1873
Summary
Pleased that GHD will help with second edition of Descent. Cautions him not to alter strength of CD’s expression or improve the style too much.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9159 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 November 1873
Summary
He has noticed that Mimosa albida leaves closed only partially. It can be objected to CD’s theory that, if true, all, or at least more, species would close their leaves on application of water, unless he can show special injury done to M. albida by water.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 183, 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9160 |
From William Bowman 26 November 1873
Summary
Discusses hereditary character of hypermetropia. Notes views of F. C. Donders on the subject.
| Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9161 |
To William Bowman 27 November [1873]
Summary
"As the disease hypermetropia is not very rare, & as it is known to be hereditary, I will not give the case (about which I was very doubtful) & am glad to decide in the negative".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9162 |
From G. G. Bianconi 28 November 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for promised observations on his book against evolution [La théorie Darwinienne et la création dite indépendante (1874)].
| Author: | Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 180 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9164 |
From T. H. Huxley [13 November 1873]
Summary
Arrangements for meeting in London.
Glad CD has heard about Dohrn’s affairs.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 331 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9183 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Krefft, Gerard | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
| Krefft, Gerard | (3) |
| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
| Bowman, William | (2) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Bianconi, G. G. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Crotch, W. D. | (1) |
| Dabney, Virginius | (1) |
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| Downing, John | (1) |
| Fiske, John | (1) |
| Frankland, Edward | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
| Moschkau, Alfred | (1) |
| Salzmann, Valentin | (1) |
| Thomasson, J. P. | (1) |
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| Wedgwood, Godfrey | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
