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 |
To E. H. Giglioli 6 February [1873]
Summary
Thanks his Italian colleague for articles on the skull of a chimpanzee.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Enrico Hillyer Giglioli |
Date: | 6 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | Andrusier Autographs (dealer) (22 November 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8201A |
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 ?[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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
To George King 18 February 1873
Summary
Thanks for information on worm-castings. Comments on disintegration of castings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George King |
Date: | 18 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8772 |
To W. M. Canby 19 February 1873
Summary
CD would like to know what were the sizes of insects caught by the older leaves of Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Marriott Canby |
Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | The Society of Natural History of Delaware |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8773 |
To Albert Gaudry 19 February 1873
Summary
Thanks for gift of first part of AG’s magnificent work [Animaux fossiles du mont Léberon (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b.7, fasc. 28, doc. 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8776 |
To James Shaw 19 February 1873
Summary
Thanks for a photograph of a donkey and children.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (22 April 2020, lot 47289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8776A |
To [Williams & Norgate] 19 February [1873]
Summary
Orders a copy of the St Paul’s Magazine for February.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 19 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (9 May 2012, lot 849) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8776F |
To J. D. Hooker 21 February [1873]
Summary
Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.
Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 259–60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8779 |
To T. W. Higginson 27 February [1873]
Summary
Praises TWH’s Army life in a black regiment [1870]. CD always thought well of Negroes, and is delighted to have his impressions confirmed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
Date: | 27 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | LL 3: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8790 |
letter | (22) |
Arnold, Matthew | (1) |
Canby, W. M. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Chapman, John | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
Gaudry, Albert | (1) |
Giglioli, E. H. | (1) |
Goodacre, F. B. | (1) |
Gray, J. E. | (1) |
Higginson, T. W. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
King, George | (1) |
Krefft, Gerard | (1) |
Major, C. I. F. | (1) |
Nature | (1) |
New Orleans newspaper | (1) |
Shaw, James | (1) |
Smith, Robert | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Arnold, Matthew | (1) |
Canby, W. M. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |