From J. V. Carus 29 January 1873
Summary
A new [German] edition of Expression is to be done. Has CD anything to add or alter?
JVC cites an article on cessation of breathing during mental concentration that supports Gratiolet as quoted in Expression, p. 179.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8751 |
To John Chapman 1 February 1873
Summary
Thanks for Chapman 1873 (Chapman, John. 1873. Neuralgia and kindred diseases of the nervous system).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Chapman |
Date: | 1 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Western University Archives, History of Medicine Collection, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (A04-011-051) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8751F |
To James Paget 29 January [1873?]
Summary
Has heard from Ashwin Conway Newman of Guy’s Hospital of a case of a child without any prepuce whose father was a renegade, uncircumcised Jew, but whose ancestors had all been Jews. Newman thinks this a good case of inheritance with reversion. JP’s letter [missing] now shows how rash such a conclusion would be.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 29 Jan [1873?] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8752 |
From F. S. B. F. de Chaumont 31 January 1873
Summary
Sends a paper on evolution by his friend J. D. MacDonald ["Distribution of Invertebrata", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 218–23] for CD’s perusal before dispatching it to the Royal Society.
Author: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8753 |
To ?[a New Orleans newspaper] [c. February 1873]
Summary
CD responds to a poem, "Comus", and a New Orleans Mardi Gras editorial; he cannot tell from the "wonderful mistakes" whether the writer is "witty, ignorant, or blunders for the sake of fun".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | New Orleans newspaper |
Date: | [c. Feb 1873] |
Classmark: | Benfey (1997):179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8753F |
To J. V. Carus 1 February 1873
Summary
Has no corrections for second German edition [of Expression]. Plans to bring out an improved edition in a year or two.
Thanks for reference JVC sent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 1 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 102–103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8754 |
From W. M. Canby 1 February 1873
Summary
At Asa Gray’s request, responds to CD’s questions about WMC’s observations on Dionaea and particularly about the size of the insects captured and the excitability of the leaves after an insect is captured.
Author: | William Marriott Canby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8755 |
From J. T. Moggridge 1 February 1873
Summary
He does not accept Wallace’s definition of instinct because it excludes "inherited experience", i.e., "knowledge acquired by and transmitted through ancestors".
House-flies do not seem to have an instinctive fear of trap-door spiders.
Miss Forster gives him news of CD.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8756 |
To F. S. B. François de Chaumont 3 February [1873]
Summary
Thanks for J. D. MacDonald’s paper ["Distribution of invertebrata", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 218–23].
CD feels lines of genetic connection between animals offer a most difficult problem; Ernst Haeckel may have done mischief by facing the difficulty.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
Date: | 3 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (RAMC/474/2); Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8757 |
To W. B. Dawkins 3 February 1873
Summary
A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 3 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Archives (GEOL 9/*1 2b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8757F |
To J. E. Gray 4 February [1873]
Summary
Is glad JEG has made out what the guemul is ["On the Guémul", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 10 (1872): 445–6; 11 (1873): 214–20, 308–10].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 4 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.411) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8758 |
From C. I. F. Major 6 February 1873
Summary
Cannot find a publisher for Italian translation of Expression. Gives up the project.
Author: | Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8759 |
From F. B. Goodacre 7 February 1873
Summary
Would like a museum set up illustrating origins, varieties, and uses of domestic animals; seeks CD’s approval of the idea.
Author: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8760 |
From T. H. Huxley [8 February 1873]
Summary
Forwards Matthew Arnold’s Literature and dogma [1873].
Hopes they can secure Hooker for President of Royal Society.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Feb 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8761 |
To Matthew Arnold 9 February [1873]
Summary
Thanks MA for his Literature and dogma [1873].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Matthew Arnold |
Date: | 9 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8762 |
From John Murray 10 February [1873]
Summary
Encloses cheque for 1000 guineas, CD’s share of profits on first 7000 copies of Expression.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 435 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8763 |
To F. B. Goodacre 11 February [1873]
Summary
Thinks FBG’s idea of a room at the British Museum of domestic birds and animals an excellent one, but a collection of plants would be much more difficult.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
Date: | 11 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8763F |
To C. I. F. Major 11 February 1873
Summary
Is sorry that CIFM has had to give up translating Expression into Italian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major |
Date: | 11 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Kotte Autographs (dealers) (30 October 2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8763G |
To Gerard Krefft 17 February 1873
Summary
Is glad JLGK has been interested in Descent.
Thanks him for his observations on monkey behaviour [see 8698]
and drawings of skulls, which CD has sent to George Busk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Date: | 17 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8768 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 February 1873
Summary
Is drawing up the account of his crossing experiments. Requests JDH to add the families after nine genera, the names of which he encloses. Whenever there is no objection he would like to arrange the families in some sort of natural order.
Recommends Spalding’s article on instinct in Macmillan’s Magazine [27 (1873): 265–81].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 257–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8769 |
Darwin, C. R. | (283) |
Hooker, J. D. | (26) |
Darwin, Francis | (13) |
Darwin, G. H. | (7) |
Krefft, Gerard | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (286) |
Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (13) |
Darwin, G. H. | (12) |
Darwin, Francis | (10) |