To W. W. Baxter 11 December [1873–5?]
Summary
Requests hydrated magnesia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 11 Dec [1873-5] |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13772G |
To W. Thistleton-Dyer [December? 1873?]
Summary
Asks for Cassia plants.
What books could CD give R. I. Lynch to show his gratitude?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | [Dec? 1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 402 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9165 |
To T. L. Brunton 3 December 1873
Summary
Is interested in comparative nutritive values of chondrin and gelatin. The former seems to excite Drosera more, though albumen does so to a higher degree than either. Also asks if chlorophyll is digested by animals; Drosera digests it hardly at all.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9168 |
To Richard Fordman 4 December [1873]
Summary
Thanks RF for his kind note; cannot quite believe or disbelieve stories of children raised by wolves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Fordman |
Date: | 4 Dec [1873] |
Classmark: | Massachusetts Historical Society (Grenville H. Norcross Autograph Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9170 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 4 December 1873
Summary
Wishes to identify a species of Cassia whose movements interest him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 4 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 1–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9171 |
To T. H. Huxley 5 December [1873]
Summary
Sorry to hear of Dohrn’s troubles. Has written to prospective donors saying that nothing can be done because of attitude of Dohrn’s father.
New [2d] edition of Descent is an awful job.
Diet no longer doing much for his health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 5 Dec [1873] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 305) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9173 |
To Richard Strachey 10 December [1873]
Summary
The case of the bees interests CD. He does not doubt that because of the size of their jaws humble-bees will be found all over the world to be the biters and hive-bees to profit from their work.
Thinks he has heard of land shells descending in the manner described by RS.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Strachey |
Date: | 10 Dec [1873] |
Classmark: | The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9177 |
To Jonathan Peel 10 December [1873]
Summary
Obliged for letter about horns of sheep.
Mentions case of death from objects impacted in appendix.
Is aware of his error about snipe breeding.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jonathan Peel |
Date: | 10 Dec [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9178 |
To F. S. B. François de Chaumont 17 December [1873]
Summary
Thanks FdeC for his note and invites criticisms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
Date: | 17 Dec [1873] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/3) Trustees of the Army Medical Service Museum |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9179 |
To J. E. Lee 17 December 1873
Summary
Formal note enclosing five guineas for William Pengelly testimonial fund.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Lee |
Date: | 17 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (John Edward Lee letterbook, #4700 bd ms 3+) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9180 |
To Smith, Elder & Co 17 December [1873]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 17 Dec [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 159–60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9181 |
To Alfred Moschkau 19 December 1873
Summary
Discusses speech of parrots and starling. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 85 n.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau |
Date: | 19 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.433) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9184 |
To Down School Board 19 December 1873
Summary
Expresses his opinion that the Board should allow the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evenings by the villagers of Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Down School Board |
Date: | 19 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9185 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 December [1873]
Summary
His indignation at the malignant, odious, hypocrite Owen’s attack on JDH. History of Secretaryship [of Royal Society in Nature 9 (1873): 129–30] was best answer to Owen.
Is hard at work on new edition of Descent – a truly awful job.
No use going on with experiments on effects of water on bloom-divested leaves. May have erred. Or it may be that water is only injurious when there is a good supply of actinic rays. Will wait until spring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Dec [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 308–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9187 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 December 1873
Summary
Concerning secretion of "bloom";
movements of Robinia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 22 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 3–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9189 |
To C. G. Ehrenberg 30 December 1873
Summary
Thanks CGE for gift of his latest work [Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Date: | 30 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Nachlass Ehrenburg, Nr. 321) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9192 |
To James Crichton-Browne 30 December 1873
Summary
Will do what he can to help JC-B with his work on expression of patients suffering from general paralysis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 30 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 346 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9193 |
To T. H. Farrer 1 December [1873]
Summary
Suggests a reference to Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1 Dec 1873, p. 497, when THF takes up Coronilla.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 1 Dec [1873] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/17a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9166 |
To Eduard Koch 20 December [1873]
Summary
Thanks for copy of translation of Variation
and the "admirable work on the microscopical structure of rock" [C. G. Ehrenberg, Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Date: | 20 Dec [1873] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9186 |
letter | (19) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Down School Board | (1) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (1) |
Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Fordman, Richard | (1) |
François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Koch, Eduard | (1) |
Lee, J. E. | (1) |
Moschkau, Alfred | (1) |
Peel, Jonathan | (1) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
Strachey, Richard | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |