To ? 4 May [1873]
Summary
Explains that his publisher has erred in announcing his book [Cross and self-fertilisation] prematurely. [See 8890 and 8897.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 4 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8897A |
To [W. W. Baxter?] 11 May [1873]
Summary
Requests litmus paper and gum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 11 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Herter Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8319 |
To Federico Delpino 1 May 1873
Summary
Asks whether, in Italy, varieties of Lathyrus odoratus, Pisum sativum, and Phaseolus multiflorus must be grown separately to come true.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 1 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8892 |
To Isidoro Dell’Oro 2 May 1873
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending him an account of silkworms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Isidoro Dell’Oro |
Date: | 2 May 1873 |
Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 02.014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8893 |
To John Tyndall 2 [May] 1873
Summary
Hopes JT does not think him over-cautious in requesting the return of the copies [of Huxley’s letter]. Has sent Huxley a list of the subscribers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 2 [May] 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 19 (EH 88205957) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8894 |
To John Murray 4 May [1873]
Summary
Asks Murray not to announce Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 May [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 436 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8897 |
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 |
To Felix von Luschan 5 May 1873
Summary
Thanks FL for sending his essays and some photographs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix von Luschan |
Date: | 5 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. Felix v. Luschan: Darwin, Charles) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8899 |
To Hermann Müller 5 May 1873
Summary
Comments on HM’s book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Particularly glad to read historical sketch and discussion of work of C. K. Sprengel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 5 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 434 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8901 |
To William Ogle 5 May [1873]
Summary
Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung den Blumen durch Insekten (1873).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 5 May [1873] |
Classmark: | James P. Evans (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8901F |
To T. B. Leffen 7 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for note and information.
Mentions venomous caterpillars in Africa and Australia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Bray Leffen |
Date: | 7 May 1873 |
Classmark: | State Library Victoria, Melbourne (MS 6219, Box 231/3. Diary of G. F. Belcher vol. 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8903 |
To W. M. Canby 7 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for the Dionaea leaves. They support CD’s anticipation that they are adapted to let the smaller fry escape [see Insectivorous plants, p. 312].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Marriott Canby |
Date: | 7 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Natural History Society of Delaware |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8904 |
To J. V. Carus 8 May [1873]
Summary
John Murray has announced his next book [Cross and self-fertilisation] without CD’s knowledge. It is only half-written. JVC will hear when it is published and will decide whether it is worth translating. It will be dry, but, CD believes, of value.
Has read an account of JVC’s Scottish lectures.
Invites JVC to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 8 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 104–105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8906 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 15 May 1873
Summary
Asks for results of FH’s experiments fertilizing some flowers with pollen from the same flower, & other flowers with pollen from distinct flowers borne by the same plant.
Has read FH’s paper on the distribution of the seeds of the Graminæ (Hildebrand 1872, pp. 740–1) with great interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 15 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8912F |
To S. J. Pozzi 15 May 1873
Summary
Answers questions about the translations of some species names.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Jean Pozzi |
Date: | 15 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Nicholas Bourdet (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8912G |
To Charles Lyell 16 May [1873]
Summary
Thanks CL for copy of Antiquity of man [4th ed. (1873)]; will read the modified or new parts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 16 May [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.427) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8913 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 21 May 1873
Summary
VOK’s paper ["Osteology of Hyopotamidae", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 147–65] appears a very valuable one.
Discusses work of VOK’s brother [Alexander] on Sagitta and the ascidians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 21 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 300. Register 1a. Folder 4. P. 1-2 r) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8916 |
To J. J. Weir 22 May 1873
Summary
Has no doubt he will find JJW’s address interesting.
Thinks same spot for nesting might prove attractive to birds, though they had had no intercommunication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 22 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8919 |
To Anton Kerner von Marilaun 24 May [1873]
Summary
Thanks for ‘Die Schutzmittel des Pollens gegen die Nachtheile vorzeitiger Dislocation und gegen die Nachtheile vorzeitiger Befeuchtung’ (Preventive measures of pollen against damage by premature dislocation and moistening; Kerner 1873) and several pamphlets.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anton Kerner von Marilaun |
Date: | 24 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Archive of the University of Vienna (151.273-2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8920F |
To Francis Galton 28 May 1873
Summary
Comments about questionnaire CD completed for FG [for Galton’s English men of science (1874)].
Describes his early interest in collecting and his education.
Asks about determining the mean heights of two groups of men.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 28 May 1873 |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/15); Pearson 1914–30, 2: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8924 |
letter | (21) |
Müller, Hermann | (2) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Canby, W. M. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Canby, W. M. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Dell’Oro, Isidoro | (1) |
Delpino, Federico | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Kerner von Marilaun, Anton | (1) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Leffen, T. B. | (1) |
Luschan, Felix von | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (2) |
Ogle, William | (1) |
Pozzi, S. J. | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Weir, J. J. | (1) |