To Virginius Dabney 3 November 1873
Summary
Thanks VD for information on caterpillars selecting food plants from within one family,
and on similar behaviour in hogs, which will not eat any plants from a family containing some poisonous members.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Virginius Dabney |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 56 MSS 3082-a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9128 |
To John Fiske 3 November [1873]
Summary
CD is glad to hear of nature of JF’s work;
proposes that JF call when CD comes to London.
Has read JF’s attack on Agassiz ["Agassiz and Darwinism"] in Popular Science Monthly [3 (1873): 692–705].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Fiske |
| Date: | 3 Nov [1873] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9127 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 November [1873]
Summary
Discusses experiments and observations on pitchers [of Nepenthes]. Suggests procedures for JDH to follow.
Any plant of any family with a terminal or with any lateral leaflets greatly reduced would be interesting to CD for studying spontaneous movements.
Has not received Eucalyptus or Acacia plants from Rollisson.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Nov [1873] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 ff. 2–3 and 39a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9130 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 November 1873
Summary
W. H. Flower is ill and obliged to go off for six months. Wants to return the money Flower contributed to fund for his holiday, asks the amount.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 329 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9126 |
From Gerard Krefft 3 November 1873
Summary
Letter of introduction for Mr Bradley, an expert on spiders.
| Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9129 |
To [J. P. Thomasson] 3 November 1873
Summary
Thanks for the paragraph, which he had not seen and now returns.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Pennington Thomasson |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | Hull University Archives (Thomasson family papers: U DX163/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9126F |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Krefft, Gerard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Dabney, Virginius | (1) |
| Fiske, John | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Thomasson, J. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Dabney, Virginius | (1) |
| Fiske, John | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
