To the Linnean Society [after 12] September 1872
Summary
Note authorising James West to collect Transactions on CD’s behalf.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Linnean Society |
| Date: | [after 12] Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Darwin Misc. Letters 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8501 |
To J. J. Moulinié 23 September 1872
Summary
States his reasons for authorising JJM to translate the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | Moulinié trans. 1873, pp. ix–x |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8502 |
To A. R. Wallace [2 September 1872]
Summary
Huxley’s report of Bastian’s having watched the development of the scale of Sphagnum. The importance of studies of possible causes of heterogenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | [2 Sept 1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8504 |
To Ernst Haeckel 2 September 1872
Summary
Comments on EH’s criticism of authors in third edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1872].
Discusses book by H. C. Bastian [The beginnings of life (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8506 |
To W. W. Baxter 4 September [1872?]
Summary
Orders some salts for plant experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 4 Sept [1872?] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8510 |
To Ernest Edwards 4 September 1872
Summary
Testimonial letter stating how valuable CD found their advice and information.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernest Edwards |
| Date: | 4 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 148–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8511 |
To Chauncey Wright 6 September [1872]
Summary
Recommends J. C. Houzeau’s Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux [1872].
Was glad to make CW’s acquaintance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
| Date: | 6 Sept [1872] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8512 |
To the Linnean Society 12 September 1872
Summary
Instructions for forwarding a parcel and outstanding issues of Transactions due him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Linnean Society |
| Date: | 12 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Darwin Misc. Letters 9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8517 |
To W. W. Baxter 17 September [1872?]
Summary
Orders sulphuric ether, nitric ether, chloroform, and prussic acid [for Drosera experiments? See Insectivorous plants, pp. 209, 219].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 17 Sept [1872?] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8523 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 18 September [1872]
Summary
CD sends schedule for VOK’s visit to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 18 Sept [1872] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8525 |
To J. V. Carus 23 September 1872
Summary
Thanks JVC for his History of zoology [Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Charl. Darwin (1872)]. Considers the title one of the greatest honours ever paid him.
Reports on foreign orders for the heliotype plates of Expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 88–89) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8531 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 24 September [1872]
Summary
Sends proof-sheets [of Expression].
Is unwell and must stop work and leave home for a time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 24 Sept [1872] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8533 |
To Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers 28 September 1872
Summary
Thanks HdeL-D for two papers on Ascidians [by A. Giard in Arch. Zool. 1 (1872): 233–88; 397–428].
Some of the expressions in HdeL-D’s paper ["Direction des études zoologiques", Arch. Zool. 1 (1872): 1–64] made CD think he accepted the principle of evolution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Félix Joseph Henri (Henri) de Lacaze-Duthiers |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | Archives de l’Académie des sciences, Paris (27 J Fonds Lacaze-Duthiers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8536 |
To H. B. Wheatley [after 30 September 1872]
Summary
Requesting two books by Lionel Smith Beale.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Benjamin Wheatley |
| Date: | [after 30 Sept 1872] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 148) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8539F |
| letter | (14) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
| Linnean Society | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Edwards, Ernest | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
| Linnean Society | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Edwards, Ernest | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Lacaze-Duthiers, Henri de | (1) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Wheatley, H. B. | (1) |
| Wright, Chauncey | (1) |
