From T. H. Farrer 12 August 1873
Summary
Observations on effect of water on leaves.
Coronilla.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9005 |
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 |
From Hubert Airy 26 [September–November 1873]
Summary
The Royal Society referees have rejected HA’s phyllotaxy paper, and it will not be printed in Philosophical Transactions. HA is not sorry for he has found new facts which limit the applicability of his views. Now believes that the original leaf arrangement was not necessarily always two-ranked but rather that existing arrangements have developed from a variety of forms with differing numbers of leaf-ranks.
| Author: | Hubert Airy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Sept-Nov] 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9073 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 23 May 1873
Summary
Sends results of his observations of cross- and self-fertilisation of Hypecoum grandiflorum and Eschscholzia californica [see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 331–2].
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B179–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8920 |
From Robert Swinhoe 26 March 1873
Summary
Discusses expression among the Chinese. Reports certain physical characters and the practice of certain unusual customs.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 336 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8824 |
From John Murray 25 September [1873]
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s cheque.
Sends CD cheque for profits on Orchids and a statement of stock on hand of CD’s works [missing].
Origin and Expression sales are stagnant.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 437, DAR 210.11: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9071 |
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From T. H. Farrer 12 August [1873]
Summary
Further observations concerning the fertilisation of Coronilla by bees.
Reflections concerning the influence of cultivation (i.e., ploughing) upon variation.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 76a–76b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9005A |
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- … from T. H. Farrer, 12 August 1873 . See letter to T. H. Farrer, 10 August [1873] and …
- … 10 th stamen separate? Has the nectar originally been there? And is it not closing up? and are not—this closing: the production of nectar outside the calyx: and the curious gap between vexillum & other parts—all correlated Here is at any rate a question Sincerely yours | T H Farrer (3)—12 …
From Albert Günther 11 June 1873
Summary
Apologises for having given CD some unreliable information.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8942 |
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 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 |
To Edward Frankland 12 July 1873
Summary
Seeks the assistance of a professional chemist in securing a qualitative analysis of the fluid secreted by the glands of Drosera which have the power of dissolving animal matter out of the bodies of insects. [See 8979.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 12 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8977A |
To Charles Lyell 24 September 1873
Summary
Discusses apple specimens received from CL; reversion to crab state. Cites passage on subject in Variation.
Comments on letter from Mr Wood on inheritance in fruit-trees.
Would like to cross flowers of "Hawthornden" with many distinct varieties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.432) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9065 |
From W. F. Collier 7 March 1873
Summary
Opposes all corporal punishment. Pleased CD agrees with his pamphlet.
| Author: | Collier, W. F. |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8801 |
To John Downing 20 October [1873]
Summary
Gratified that a man of JD’s experience agrees with him.
Would enjoy seeing him at Down but it could only be for a half-hour’s talk at most, because of his health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Downing |
| Date: | 20 Oct [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 418 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9104 |
From J. T. Moggridge 22 August 1873
Summary
He has added carbolic acid to the seed germination experiments and sends more results on the effect of formic acid. Formic acid inhibits mildew on dough but not on seeds.
Mildew never grows in ants’ nests.
Sends an account, from the Mishnah, of grain stored by ants.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9024 |
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- … 12 days. (This was a fault, & I am hard at work repairing it by a new set of experiments. )— In ten of the twenty experiments, where the acid varied in strength from 10 …
- … 10 min. pure acid mildew did not appear until after 229 hours had elapsed, while in an experiment with 2 1 2 min. acid in 2 1 2 water it appeared after 141 hours. It cannot properly be said however that the seeds which have not germinated in consequence of the presence of the formic acid vapour are always killed by it; for I find that, though in some cases decay has set in, in others many seeds appear on dissection to have the embryos perfectly sound. My experiments lasted from 7 to 12 …
From J. E. Boehm 4 July 1873
Summary
Reports cases from his family of inheritance of turning in sleep, sleep-walking at full moon, and eyes giving out red light at early age.
| Author: | Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 235 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8964 |
To G. H. Darwin 12 October [1873]
Summary
Asks GHD whether he can tell him what inclination a polished or waxy leaf ought to hold to the horizon in order to let vertical rain rebound off as much as possible.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9096 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 September 1873
Summary
Had read Tyndall’s letter [Nature 8 (1873): 399] – awfully savage, but certainly a great mistake to print it.
Thinks JDH will think better of Clerk Maxwell’s paper after he reads it.
Asks whether JDH could find out for him the temperature of rain in very hot countries.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 280–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9074 |
To Charles Lyell [9 November 1873 or 26 April or 6 December 1874]
Summary
Arranges a visit to CL.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [9 Nov] 1873 or [26 Apr or 6 Dec] 1874 |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8715 |
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- … 12 December 1874 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II) and Correspondence vol. 22, Appendix II). The letter could have been written on 9 November 1873 or 26 April or 6 December 1874, all Sundays followed by a Wednesday when CD was still in London. Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Lyell met with CD when he was in London on Monday 10 …
From J. T. Moggridge 22 July 1873
Summary
He will repeat the experiments in which CD found that formic acid vapour killed seeds [see 8866]. John Lindley describes effects of other acids on germination.
He has tabulated the large amount of variation in English Ophrys apifera.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8984 |
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- … 10 March 1873 . Mentone (now Menton) is a town in south-eastern France on the French Riviera near the the border with Italy; Moggridge spent most winters there owing to his chronic ill health ( R. Desmond 1994 ). For the discussion of seeds soaked in oxalic acid and other substances to promote germination, see Lindley 1855 , pp. 236–7. Moggridge had sent CD copy of his German paper on Ophrys insectifera (the fly orchid; Moggridge 1869 ) with his letter of 12 …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Boehm, J. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (2) |
