To Agnes Haeckel [before 3 March 1873]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Agnes Huschke; Agnes Haeckel |
| Date: | [before 3 Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A [34831]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8703F |
From Emma Darwin to G. S. Ffinden [22? November 1873]
Summary
Darwins and Lubbocks wish to continue using the school room as a Reading Room for workers in the winter months and asks Ffinden to support them.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
| Date: | [22? Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9121F |
From G. H. Darwin [1 October 1873]
Summary
Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Oct 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8702 |
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- … 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); the preceding Wednesday was 1 October. Clark was treating George; in a letter to Horace Darwin, [10 June 1873] (DAR 258: 579), Emma Darwin wrote: ‘D r Clarke says he must go on just the same— He has added raw eggs to his diet & that is very nourishing. D r C. …
To A. W. Bennett 5 May [1873]
Summary
Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Date: | 5 May [1873] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8898 |
Rade, Emil (1832–1931)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1873–91. Member of the zoological section of the Westphalian Provincial Society for Science and Art, 1874; of the botanical section, 1877. Organised the production of a dedicatory album of German and Austrian scientists in honour of CD, presented in 1877. Gries 2006 Bibliography Gries, Brunhild. 2006. Emil Rade (1832–1931), sein Anteil an der naturkundlichen Erforschung Westfalens und das Darwin-Album von 1877. Abhandlungen aus dem Westfälischen Museum für Naturkunde 68 (2): 1–93. 24,25,27 Darwin, C. R. …
To Henry Edwards 15 July [1873]
Summary
HE’s facts about the Mexican ant [Myrmecocystus mexicanus] are "most wonderful & interesting".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Edwards |
| Date: | 15 July [1873] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8978 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1873. Notes on the honey-making ant of Texas and New Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 5: 72–75. [Reprinted in American Naturalist 7: 722–6. ] Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 6 December 1873
Summary
Movement in plants.
Information on species of Cassia.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9174 |
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- … 1873 Dear M r Darwin Your Cassia is one well known in cultivation and it passes under the name of Cassia floribunda, Hort. It is curious how difficult it usually is to determine the species to which cultivated plants belong even when there is little reason to suspect that they have deviated materially from the stock originally introduced. I asked M r Bentham, who has made a special study of the genus, what he had done with C. …
To Nature [before 13 February 1873]
Summary
Sends a letter from William Huggins about a case of inherited fright in three generations of mastiffs. Discusses the different origins of instincts and their inheritance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 13 Feb 1873] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 13 February 1873, pp. 281–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8765 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 June 1873
Summary
Thanks for Dionaea.
George Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1873): viii–xxix]. Admires it greatly.
CD’s recent work leads him to a different theory [from GB’s] on the separation of the sexes of plants.
Huxley has been at Down working with CD on Drosera – very helpful.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 263–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8956 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten und die gegenseitigen Anpassungen beider. Ein Beitrag zur Erkenntniss des ursächlichen Zusammenhanges in der organischen Natur. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
From Hermann Müller 1 April [1867]
Summary
Thanks for "Climbing plants" offprint and for references on fertilisation of flowers.
Considering the bounty of work already done, he is looking for something original to do.
Subularia does not grow in Westphalia.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 289 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5481 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten und die gegenseitigen Anpassungen beider. Ein Beitrag zur Erkenntniss des ursächlichen Zusammenhanges in der organischen Natur. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
To Down School Board [after 29 November 1873]
Summary
CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | [after 29 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9122 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.
Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".
Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.
Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 518–23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13277 |
To John Murray 12 April 1874
Summary
Discusses 2d edition of Descent. CD is inclined to a cheap edition and asks JM to consider a one-volume edition in double-column format.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 348–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9404 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … R. F. Cooke, 10 April [1874] . CD refers to Charles Lyell’s Student’s elements of geology ; a second edition was published by Murray in April 1874 ( C. Lyell 1874 ; Publishers’ circular 1874, p. 276). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. John Lothrop Motley’s Rise of the Dutch republic: a history was first published in 1855 in three volumes ( Motley 1855 ). The most recent edition was published in a single volume by George Routledge and Sons ( Motley 1873 ). …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
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