To T. M. Hughes 13 March [1873]
Summary
Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas McKenny Hughes |
Date: | 13 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS.Add. 7652/III I.11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8810 |
To G. M. Humphry 14 March 1873
Summary
Sorry that his health prevents him attending a meeting to honour Adam Sedgwick.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Murray Humphry |
Date: | 14 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8810F |
From A. W. Bennett 16 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8811 |
From Hubert Airy 17 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on appearance of abstract of HA’s paper [Nature 7 (1873): 343–4].
Explains again his theory of "contraction with twist" by which compact buds and a spiral phyllotaxy have evolved. Explains how the peculiar phyllotaxy of the teasel is explicable by this process of "condensation".
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8812 |
From William Pengelly 17 March 1873
Summary
CD’s notice in Nature [Collected papers 2: 171–2] induces WP to send letters from correspondents recounting stories of a dog that learned to open a door and of another that found his way home from London to Cowes.
Author: | William Pengelly |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | Pengelly ed. 1897, pp. 229–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8813 |
To F. P. Cobbe? 18 March [1873?]
Summary
CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
Date: | 18 Mar [1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8814 |
From J. C. Costerus and N. D. Doedes 18 March 1873
Summary
Two students express their gratitude and admiration.
Author: | Nicolaas Dirk Doedes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8815 |
To Thomas Meehan 19 March [1873]
Summary
Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.
Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 19 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 352 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8816 |
To William Pengelly 19 March [1873]
Summary
Thanks WP for his accounts of sagacity of dogs. "I can believe almost anything about them."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Pengelly |
Date: | 19 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | Documenting History (dealers) (1995) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8817 |
From Arthur Nicols [before 20 March 1873]
Summary
Compares sense of smell in dogs and cats.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 20 Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | Nicols 1885, pp. 51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8817F |
To Arthur Nicols [20 March 1873]
Summary
Responds to AN’s observations on sense of smell in cats and dogs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Date: | [20 Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | Nicols 1885, p. 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8817G |
To William Turner 21 March [1873]
Summary
Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 21 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8818 |
From G. H. Eggers 21 March 1873
Summary
An admirer sends clipping from Bremen newspaper on hybrid between orange and lemon.
Author: | G. H Eggers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8819 |
From Johannes Huber 22 March 1873
Summary
Describes his critique of natural selection [Die Lehre Darwins kritisch betrachtet (1871)].
Author: | Johannes Nepomuk (Johannes) Huber |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8820 |
From Raphael Meldola 24 March 1873
Summary
Gives some information on variation of ocelli between sexes in butterfly species.
Proposes publishing a series of papers on mimicry.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8821 |
From W. W. Reade 25 March [1873]
Summary
H. W. Bates says CD is in town. WWR would like to call.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8822 |
To Raphael Meldola 26 March [1873]
Summary
Thanks RM for note on ocelli.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 26 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350, Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8823 |
From Robert Swinhoe 26 March 1873
Summary
Discusses expression among the Chinese. Reports certain physical characters and the practice of certain unusual customs.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 336 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8824 |
To T. L. Brunton 26 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for Indian [Medical] Gazette. Comments on article.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Date: | 26 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8825 |
From G. B. Thornbery 27 March 1873
Summary
Has read several of CD’s books; is curious about his remarks on "movements which are no longer useful but still inherited". Asks CD’s opinion on why people still swing arms with opposite leg in walking.
Author: | Gregory Beddome Thornbery |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 316 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8827 |
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Airy, Hubert | (1) |
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Cross, Marian | (2) |
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