To Nature [before 13 March 1873]
Summary
Recounts instances suggesting that animals have a sense of direction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 13 Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 13 March 1873, p. 360 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8809 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 4 March 1873
Summary
[Empty cover]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | [4 Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13905F |
To Henry Willett 26 March [1873]
Summary
CD subscribes an additional £10.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Willett |
Date: | 26 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8251 |
From Henry Reeks 3 March 1873
Summary
Praise for and detailed comments on Expression.
Two cases of coloration in animals – one from sexual selection, the other helping to procure prey [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 542–3].
Author: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8703 |
From Francis Darwin [1–15 March 1873]
Summary
Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn’t suit him. May go to Pryor’s on Sunday.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1–15 Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8714F |
From James Crichton-Browne 2 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for Expression. Will write paper on it in next [July] West Riding Asylum Medical Report.
Sends photos of lunatics;
will send notes corroborative of CD’s views, including some on "hereditarily transmitted movements".
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8795 |
From Thomas Meehan 3 March 1873
Summary
Although he believes in evolution, TM feels that natural selection is an inadequate cause;
nor is he satisfied with E. D. Cope’s law of acceleration and retardation.
Discusses some of his work relating to nutrition and sex and colour and sex.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8796 |
To Henry Reeks 5 March [1873]
Summary
Thanks for HR’s valuable remarks about Expression, and returns HRs copy, signed.
Discusses some of HR’s anecdotes about children sucking their tongues.
Admits that the youth who trembled so that he could not reload his gun after killing his first snipe was himself, when a school-boy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
Date: | 5 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (James Needham Papers: Collection 21-23-479, Box 3: 28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8796F |
From C.-F. Reinwald 4 March 1873
Summary
Recounts the difficulties in preparing the French translation of Origin: the 1870 war, the illness and death of J. J. Moulinié, the alterations and additions from the 6th English edition. Despite competition from Royer’s three editions, Reinwald is contemplating a new edition.
Descent, vol. 1, has almost sold out. Offers CD £40 for rights to reprint a corrected version of Descent.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8797 |
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 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 March [1873]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8799 |
From W. H. Hall 5 March 1873
Author: | William Honnywill Hall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 53.2: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8800 |
From W. F. Collier 7 March 1873
Summary
Opposes all corporal punishment. Pleased CD agrees with his pamphlet.
Author: | Collier, W. F. |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8801 |
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 |
From F. B. Johnston 9 March 1873
Summary
Various observations on sexual selection portion of Descent – ostriches, rosy-billed duck, egrets, rails, etc.
Author: | F. B Johnston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 183–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8803 |
From Athénaïs Michelet 9 March 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for one of his books.
Author: | Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8804 |
To J. T. Moggridge 10 March 1873
Summary
Much obliged for seeds. Will expose seeds to chemical vapours.
Comments on JTM’s spider experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 10 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 379 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8805 |
To Asa Gray 11 March [1873]
Summary
Astonished by Agassiz’s argument; has sent AG’s memorandum to Nature [see 8786].
Is working on cross- and self-fertilising plants and has temporarily stopped work on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (106) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8806 |
From Otto Caspari 12 March 1873
Summary
Sends CD a copy of his book [Die Urgeschichte der Menschheit, 2 vols. (1873)].
In Germany CD’s views have achieved great recognition among naturalists, but in other disciplines there is great controversy. OC’s book seeks to resolve the controversy by showing how state, morals, religion, and church have developed from natural beginnings.
Author: | Gotthold Heinrich Otto (Otto) Caspari |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8808 |
From G. M. Humphry [before 14] March 1873
Summary
A circular advertising a meeting at the Senate House, Cambridge, on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Professor Adam Sedgwick.
Author: | George Murray Humphry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 14] Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | CUL Cambridge University Registry guard books: Sedgwick Memorial Museum 1873–1924 CUR 110: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8809F |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Doedes, N. D. | (2) |
Reeks, Henry | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (52) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Doedes, N. D. | (3) |
Reeks, Henry | (3) |
Bennett, A. W. | (2) |