To Nature 20 September [1873]
Summary
CD, in commenting on Wyville Thomson’s "Notes from the Challenger" [Nature 8 (1873): 347–9], recapitulates his work on rudimentary male cirripedes [Living Cirripedia], especially the complementary males attached to hermaphrodites. Offers an explanation, on evolutionary grounds, of their function and size.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 20 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 25 September 1873, pp. 431–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061 |
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 |
To J. J. Weir 18 September [1873]
Summary
JJW is quite at liberty to use CD’s name as patron of cat show.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 18 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (B MS Misc.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8524 |
From Francis Darwin [30 September 1873]
Summary
He is travelling overnight by train from London to Pantlludw and will wake A. R. Ruck with a morningade on his flute.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [30 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8942F |
To Gerard Krefft [September 1873]
Summary
Thanks for observations on worm-castings and for JLGK’s amusing letter.
Wants to know whether species of Eucalyptus are dichogamous. [The P.S. on Eucalyptus may be part of another letter to another correspondent.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Date: | [Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828); Smithsonian Libraries (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9037 |
From J. D. Hooker [September 1873]
Summary
Abstracts literature on sensitive plants (Linnaeus, L. P. Cailletet, W. R. McNab).
The Mimosa at Down is M. pudica.
Dichogamy in Eucalyptus difficult to decide, but Thiselton-Dyer thinks there is some protandry.
[Letter is in W. T. Thiselton-Dyer’s hand.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.6: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9038 |
To Theodor Gomperz 1 September [1873]
Summary
Will reread and consider TG’s letter when his health improves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Theodor Gomperz |
Date: | 1 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Cedric Hausherr (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9039 |
To W. D. Fox 1 September [1873]
Summary
Has been in bed for some days with ugly head symptoms. "We are a poor lot."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 1 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 152) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9040 |
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 |
From Andrew Clark 3 September 1873
Author: | Andrew Clark, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9041 |
To W. W. Baxter 4 September 1873
Summary
Orders list of chemical salts. Ashamed to order from Hopkins and Williams because they charge him such an extremely low rate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 4 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (August 2015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9042 |
To W. W. Baxter 5 September [1873]
Summary
Orders salts of various metals; thinks chlorides (where soluble) would be better than nitrates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 5 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.431) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9043 |
From Gerard Krefft 6 September 1873
Summary
Proud of CD’s good opinion of him. He worked in a merchant’s office in Germany for many years. Emigrated to Australia as a gold-digger and took up natural history after he was 30.
Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9044 |
To James Crichton-Browne 7 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks JC-B for volume of Asylum reports and paper on epilepsy. Seems clear from reports that physiology of brain will soon be largely understood.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 7 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 345 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9045 |
To W. W. Baxter 8 September [1873]
Summary
Requests chemicals for Drosera experiments. Lists 12 acids tried so far.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 8 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 6 (EH 88206058) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9046 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 9 September [1873]
Summary
Pleased JSBS has decided to work on Drosera; sends plants. Does not know whether thermo-electric pile could detect temperature change when leaves close.
CD’s experiment with very weak hydrochloric acid repeated with success: the plants digest albumen more quickly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9047 |
To T. F. Cheeseman 9 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks TFC for his extremely interesting paper ["On the fertilisation of the New Zealand species of Pterostyles", Trans. & Proc. N. Z. Inst. 5 (1872): 352–7]. Has no doubt his explanation [of the fertilisation mechanism] is correct. The case is analogous to that of the Cypripedium though TFC’s case is much more curious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Frederick Cheeseman |
Date: | 9 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS-58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9048 |
From M. D. Conway 10 September [1873]
Summary
Comparative study of "ethnical scriptures" shows that natural selection has operated in the evolution of religion.
Author: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9049 |
From W. S. Wade 11 September 1873
Summary
Reports case of a man with an eyelid abnormality that apparently was acquired in infancy but was inherited by his children.
Author: | William Swift Wade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9050 |
To M. D. Conway 12 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks for strange debate, which CD returns. Principle of evolution has first-rate supporters in [Edward Sylvester?] Morse and Theodore Nicholas Gill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
Date: | 12 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9051 |
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