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 |
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 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
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. …
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 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin to Horace Darwin , postmarked ‘29 November 1873’ (DAR 258: 585). Emma was in London from 8 to 18 November 1873 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). In 1873, 22 November was a Saturday. Ellen Frances Lubbock . For more on this request and the resulting dispute, see the letter from E. F. Lubbock to Emma Darwin , [ c . 29 November 1873] and n. 2, the letter to Down School Board, [after 29 November 1873] , and J. R. …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Spalding, Douglas Alexander. 1873. …
From William A. Wooler 4 February 1861
Summary
Discusses the colouring of the young of various breeds of rabbit.
Observations on results of various poultry crosses and on a character which is linked to sex.
| Author: | William Alexander Wooler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3058 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Post Office directory of the county of Durham : The Post Office directory of the county of Durham, and the principal towns and adjacent places in Northumberland, Cumberland & Westmorland. The Post Office directory of Durham and Northumberland. London: Kelly and Co. 1873– …
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 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Wooler, W. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Down School Board | (1) |
| Edwards, Henry | (1) |
| Ffinden, G. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Down School Board | (1) |
