To ? 12 July [1872–4]
Summary
Has not strength or time to hunt for Herminium monorchis; has failed to make orchid seeds germinate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 July [1872-4] |
Classmark: | National Library of Russia (Collection of P. Waxell (F. 965): no 637) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8406F |
To ? 30 July [1872–4]
Summary
Thanks recipient for information about eye colour of his shepherd dogs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 July [1872-4] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8438 |
To Nature 3 August [1872]
Summary
Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about early pedigree of man.
Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 3 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Nature, 8 August 1872, p. 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8448 |
To ? 9 August [1872–4]
Summary
Will see that the error is corrected in the next reprint.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Aug [1872-4] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Brandeis University, Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections (Autograph Collection (Bremer–Drew), Box 3, Folder 309) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8460F |
From ? September 1872
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8503 |
To ? 5 December 1872
Summary
Obliged for the note of reference, but does not know what to think of the statement about the watering mouth.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8660F |
To ? 5 December 1872
Summary
Thanks for gift of a book, and offers to send copy of Expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (3 November 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8660H |
To ? 9 December 1872
Summary
Thanks an unidentifiable natural history society for electing him an honorary member.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | Galerie Frédéric Castaing (dealer) (November 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8665F |
From ? [1873?]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8706 |
From ? [1873–4?]
Summary
Cancelled: enclosure to S 9290.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1873–4?] |
Classmark: | DAR 69: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8714 |
To ? 9 January 1873
Summary
Has pleasure in signing the [missing] enclosure, with every word of which he fully agrees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8728F |
To the Spectator 11 January 1873
Summary
Discusses two factors possibly causing modification of body or mind of an organism; habit and direct action of external conditions on the one hand, and selection, natural or artificial, on the other; considers their relative importance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Spectator |
Date: | 11 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Spectator, 18 January 1873, p. 76. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8731 |
To Nature [before 13 February 1873]
Summary
Sends a letter from William Huggins about a case of inherited fright in three generations of mastiffs. Discusses the different origins of instincts and their inheritance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 13 Feb 1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 13 February 1873, pp. 281–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8765 |
From ? [after 14 January 1874]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Jan 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8794 |
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 Nature [before 27 March 1879]
Summary
In reply to a query [in Nature 19 (1879): 433] CD reports that vessels full of water were kept on the deck of a ship to discourage rats from gnawing holes in the ship’s water casks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 27 Mar 1879] |
Classmark: | Nature, 27 March 1879, p. 481 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8826 |
To Nature [before 3 April 1873]
Summary
Comments on article ["Perception and instinct in lower animals", Nature 7 (1871): 377–8].
Explains his contention that "many of the most wonderful instincts have been acquired, independently of habit, through the preservation of useful variations of pre-existing instincts". Cites examples: sterile workers of several species of social insects have acquired different instincts; movements of tumbler pigeons. Speculates that "many instincts have originated from modification or variations in the brain".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 3 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 3 April 1873, pp. 417–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8838 |
To Nature [before 3 April 1873]
Summary
"The following fact with respect to the habits of ants, which I believe to be quite new, has been sent to me by a distinguished geologist, Mr J. D. Hague [see 8788]; and it appears well worth publishing."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 3 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 10 April 1873, pp. 443–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8853 |
To ? 28 April 1873
Summary
"I was born in the town of Shrewsbury Feb. 12, 1809."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (26 April 1984) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8888A |
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 |
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