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 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Strachey, 25 August 1873 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 September [1873] ). …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 19 August 1873 , letter from Richard …
- … Had read Tyndall’s letter [ Nature 8 (1873): 399] – awfully savage, but certainly a great …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 19 September [1873] . A letter from John Tyndall had been …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 September 1873] and n. 4. See letter from J. D. …
- … lecture in Nature , 25 September 1873, pp. 437–41. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 …
- … 1873] . Hooker had been at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Bradford. See letter …
- … 18 September 1873, p. 399; for Hooker’s opinion of it, see the letter from J. D. …
- … on molecules, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 September 1873] and n. 12. CD may …
- … 1873, p. 431, Tyndall retracted some of the statements he had made in his letter. For …
- … 1873, p. 10. CD was investigating whether the injurious effects of water on leaves depended on the temperature of the water (see letter …
To Hermann Müller 5 May 1873
Summary
Comments on HM’s book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Particularly glad to read historical sketch and discussion of work of C. K. Sprengel.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 5 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 434 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8901 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to T. H. Farrer, 28 April 1873 , letter to A. W. …
- … Bennett, 5 May [1873] , and letter to William Ogle, 5 May [1873] . There is a copy of H. …
- … by means of insects ( H. Müller 1873 ; see letter from Hermann Müller, 28 February …
- … 1873 , p. 4). CD later quoted Müller on this point in Cross and self fertilisation , pp. 6–7. See letter …
To G. H. Darwin 24 [October 1873]
Summary
"It is a fearfully difficult moral problem about speaking out on religion, & I have never been able to make up my mind."
An Irishman, a "grand breeder" of short-horns, declared at lunch that CD’s books had been "a great help to [him] in breeding!"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 24 [Oct 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9111 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Downing, 20 October [1873] , and letter from John Downing, 13 November 1873 . …
- … this letter, the letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 October [1873] , and the letter from John …
- … Downing, 13 November 1873 . The letter has not been found. James Clerk Maxwell’s paper ‘On …
- … October [ 1873] and n. 4. Henrietta Emma Litchfield . Horace Darwin . See letter to John …
- … 1873 ) was full of equations. CD refers to Albert Venn Dicey , Richard Buckley Litchfield , and John Stuart Mill . See letter …
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1873
Summary
Mimosa prostrata, described by John Lindley as M. marginata, native of Brazil.
Who supplies CD with distilled water and chemicals?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 169–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9089 |
To T. H. Huxley 25 April 1873
Summary
Affected by THH’s letter – will send a copy to the other 17 friends. Hopes for his and public’s sake his health will improve.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 297) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8875 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … the additional amount by 25 April 1873 (see letter to Charles Lyell, [25 April 1873] , and …
- … Lyell died on 24 April 1873, following a brief illness (see letter from E. A. Darwin to …
- … A copy of Huxley’s letter of 24 April 1873 was enclosed …
- … on 8 April 1873 to discuss raising the subscription (see letter to William Spottiswoode, [ …
- … See letter from T. H. Huxley, 24 April 1873 . …
- … with the letter to subscribers to T. H. Huxley’s gift, [25 April 1873] . Several of …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 February [1879]
Summary
Wants to borrow Duchartre’s Éléments de botanique [1867].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1879] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 160–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11895 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … in Duchartre 1867 , pp. 347–54. The December 1873 letter in which Thiselton-Dyer discussed …
- … vol. 21, letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 6 December 1873 , and letter to W. T. …
- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 160–1) Charles …
- … 1873 . Joseph Dalton Hooker was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; the ‘Public Library’ was the collection of books belonging to the gardens. The books were not borrowable. CD was beginning to write up his chapters on sleep in plants ( Movement in plants , pp. 280–417); see letter …
To Gerard Krefft 12 July [1873]
Summary
Thanks JLGK for photos of natives of Queensland.
Asks if he can observe whether worms throw up castings in wet weather.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
| Date: | 12 July [1873] |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8975 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Huxley visited Down from 27 to 28 June 1873 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 June 1873 ). …
- … of New Guinea men with his letter of 3 May 1873 . The letter enclosing the photograph of …
- … found, but they are mentioned in Krefft’s letter of 3 May 1873 . Neither of these sets of …
- … skeleton of Chlamydosaurus kingii (see letter from Gerard Krefft, 3 May 1873 and n. 4). …
- … this letter and the letter from Gerard Krefft, 3 May 1873 . Krefft enclosed photographs …
- … has been found. See letter to A. R. Wallace, 9 July [1873] . Krefft had written to …
From Henry Reeks 8 March 1873
Summary
Insists that suckling babies pound and scratch mothers’ breasts. Perhaps CD’s evidence to the contrary comes from ladies, who only expose small portion of bosom, as opposed to working-class women.
| Author: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8802 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … was published after CD’s death. See letter to Henry Reeks, 5 March [1873] and n. 5. …
- … See letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 and n. …
- … 1, and letter to Henry Reeks, 5 March [1873] . Jan …
- … Swammerdam . See letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 and n. …
- … 2, and letter to Henry Reeks, 5 March [1873] . William L. …
- … P. Reeks; see letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 . …
- … See letter to Henry Reeks, 5 March [1873] . Reeks’s observation was added to Expression 2d …
- … Newbury— March 8 th . 1873 My dear M r Darwin, I found your kind letter here tonight on my …
From J. D. Hooker 29 October 1873
Summary
Sends plant specimens.
He and Thiselton-Dyer, working on with Nepenthes, have independently found the spiral vessels going to the gland. CD’s view that the glands are secretory organs is suggestive. When Nepenthes is as much done as CD wants,
he will turn to Cephalotus and Sarracenia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 176–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9116 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin had visited Kew on 26 October 1873 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 October [ …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 25 October 1873 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 October [1873] . …
- … of Lathyrus nissolia (the grass vetchling) in his letter to Hooker of 23 October [1873] . …
- … farnesiana from Kew in his letter to Hooker of 26 October [1873] ; it was sent on 31 …
- … or dewy pine; see letter to Francis Darwin, 10 October 1873 and n. 9). Hooker refers to …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 October [1873] . Francis …
- … carbonate). See also letter from J. D. Hooker, 25 October 1873 . CD had asked Francis to …
To James Crichton-Browne 4 March [1873]
Summary
Pleased that JC-B will review Expression.
Fears he will not be able to improve the book with JC-B’s "wonderfully curious" photographs because Murray printed such a large edition.
Would be glad to have JC-B’s notes on inheritance – "a most important subject".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 343 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8798 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … to James Crichton-Browne, 28 February [1873] , and letter from James Crichton-Browne, 2 …
- … of Expression (see letter from John Murray, 10 February [1873] and n. 2); there were no …
- … Paget has been found. See letter from James Crichton-Browne, 2 March 1873 and n. 5. …
- … CD’s lifetime. See letter from James Crichton-Browne, 2 March 1873 and nn. 2 and 4. …
- … this letter and the letter from James Crichton-Browne, 2 March 1873 . CD had written to …
- … review Expression (see letter from James Crichton-Browne, 2 March 1873 ). For reviews of …
From G. H. Darwin to Nature 4 October [1873]
Summary
Sends, with CD’s approval, a clarification of CD’s explanation of how useless organs might diminish [see 9061]. Using Quetelet’s law of normal distribution GHD shows how horns of cattle, having become useless, would gradually diminish and finally disappear.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 4 Oct [1873] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 16 October 1873, p. 505 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9087 |
To C. H. Merriam 29 April 1874
Summary
Asks CHM to send his paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Clinton Hart Merriam |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (November 1997) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9433A |
To J. D. Hooker 31 July [1873]
Summary
Has three common garden plants of which he needs to know correct names; will send specimens as soon as he hears JDH is back.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 July [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 267 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8991 |
From G. H. Darwin [before 3 October 1873]
Summary
Sends CD a draft of a letter to Nature [see 9087], which he thinks expresses CD’s meaning.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3 Oct 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9084 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Down House. Andrew Clark began treating both CD and George in 1873 (see letter from Andrew …
- … Clark, 3 September 1873 , and letter from G. H. Darwin, [1 October 1873] ). Edmund …
- … CD had published a letter in Nature , 25 September 1873, pp. 431–2, headed ‘On the …
- … rudimentary structures’ (see letter to Nature , 20 September [1873]). George’s draft has …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter to G. H. Darwin, 3 October [1873] . …
- … of organs (see letter from G. H. Darwin to Nature , 4 October [1873]). George took …
- … 1873 ( ODNB ). Leonard Darwin was working at the School of Military Engineering in Chatham ( ODNB ). He may have visited the Royal Observatory in Greenwich in preparation for an expedition to observe the transit of Venus ( Correspondence vol. 20, letter …
To M. D. Conway 11 January [1873]
Summary
Thanks MDC for letter on expression [see 8694].
Invites him to Down on 24th. CD warns that his health does not permit him to talk long with anyone.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1873] |
| Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8730 |
From E. F. Lubbock [before 7 April 1873]
Summary
Is trying to persuade "our friend" [T. H. Huxley?] to accept a gift.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 7 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8833 |
To William Spottiswoode [8 April 1873]
Summary
Discusses the arrangements being made to present a gift to Huxley [see 8872].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Spottiswoode |
| Date: | [8 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 169–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8851 |
To John Tyndall 2 [May] 1873
Summary
Hopes JT does not think him over-cautious in requesting the return of the copies [of Huxley’s letter]. Has sent Huxley a list of the subscribers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 2 [May] 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 19 (EH 88205957) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8894 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … raised for him. See letter to T. H. Huxley, 25 April 1873 , and letter to John …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Tyndall, 25 April 1873 . …
- … 25 April 1873 . For the names of those who subscribed, see the letter to subscribers to …
- … Copies of the letter from T. H. Huxley, 24 April 1873 , had been sent to all those who …
- … 1873] and n. 4. The two enclosures have not been identified. According to Francis Darwin , CD placed letters …
- … 1873 My dear Tyndall I am very much obliged for all the trouble you have taken, & I hope you do not think that I have been over-cautious in asking for the copies to be returned. I think I told you that H. had asked for a list of the names, which I have sent in alphabetical order. And now our work is completed. I return the 2 enclosed letters, …
To J. V. Carus 8 May [1873]
Summary
John Murray has announced his next book [Cross and self-fertilisation] without CD’s knowledge. It is only half-written. JVC will hear when it is published and will decide whether it is worth translating. It will be dry, but, CD believes, of value.
Has read an account of JVC’s Scottish lectures.
Invites JVC to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 8 May [1873] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 104–105) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8906 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Edinburgh Review (see letter to George Cupples, 28 April [1873] , and letter from George …
- … Cupples, 1 May 1873 ). See letter from J. V. Carus, [before 8 May 1873] and n. 6. …
- … between this letter and the letter to John Murray, 4 May [1873] . CD’s work was published …
- … 1873, p. 8). Scottish Presbyterians were strict in their observance of the Sabbath; many, however, were ready to consider evolution, with the exception of John Duns , professor of natural science at New College (the theological college at Edinburgh University ), who remained opposed (see Livingstone 1999 , p. 21). Duns had reviewed Origin harshly in 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter …
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Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
