To ? [June–September 1873?]
Summary
Printed memorandum giving reasons why there should be subsidy on a large scale of scientific research unencumbered with teaching.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [June–Sept 1873?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (T. H. Huxley papers Mss.B.H981) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9040G |
To Francis Darwin [before 26 June 1873]
Summary
Sends FD £5 for the loan of his microscope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [before 26 June 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13794 |
To Anton Dohrn 2 June [1873]
Summary
Thanks AD for kind review of Expression. AD’s remarks on necessity of tracing development of functions are novel and valuable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 2 June [1873] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (D.O. autogr. 12/50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8933 |
To B. T. Lowne 3 June 1873
Summary
Comments on BTL’s book [The philosophy of evolution (1873)].
"You are a bold man to speak in favour of pangenesis."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Thompson Lowne |
Date: | 3 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8934 |
To George Cupples 7 June [1873]
Summary
Thanks for report on J. V. Carus’ lecture.
Glad to hear suspicion about J. H. Stirling groundless.
CD has not seen R. W. Emerson. In last two or three years has seen several Yankees. Saw a good deal of the Nortons [Charles Eliot and Susan Ridley Sedgwick].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 7 June [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.428) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8936 |
To A. A. L. P. Cochrane [after 7 June 1873]
Summary
Is obliged because of health to decline the invitation [see 8938] to make a voyage on the Admiral’s ship. "… I must rest contented with past memories …"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane |
Date: | [after 7 June 1873] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (20–1 July 1988) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8938A |
To László Dapsy 9 June 1873
Summary
Is glad to hear LD’s translation [of Origin (1873–4)] progresses well.
Offers to send a photograph of himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Laszlo Dapsy |
Date: | 9 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8940 |
To Albert Günther 14 June [1873]
Summary
Thanks AG for information [unspecified]; so trifling an error will not alter his opinion that AG is "the most accurate of men".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 14 June [1873] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8943 |
To C. H. Blackley 14 June [1873]
Summary
Thanks for sending Experimental researches. He will read it as soon as he finishes a book in hand. [See 8965.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Harrison Blackley |
Date: | 14 June [1873] |
Classmark: | Arbor 441–2 (September–October 1982): 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8943A |
To E. W. Lane 23 June 1873
Summary
Thanks EWL for his book about hydropathy [Old medicine and new (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Wickstead Lane |
Date: | 23 June 1873 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.429) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8946 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 24 June 1873
Summary
Wishes JSBS to look over an abstract of his Drosera experiments and to answer some questions on it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 June 1873 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8948 |
To Federico Delpino 25 June [1873]
Summary
Discusses role of insects in crossing varieties of Lathyrus odoratus and other species.
Comments on Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)],
and Anton Kerner ["Die Schutzmittel des Pollens", Ber. Naturwiss. Med. Ver. Innsbruck, 3 (1873): 100–68].
Admires FD’s work on anemophilous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 25 June [1873] |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8951 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 26 June [1873]
Summary
Would welcome JSBS visit to discuss Drosera. Nitrogenous fluids can act as ferments only if they act merely by exciting molecular movement in adjoining molecules.
Glass and cotton excite movement and cause cell contents to change visibly. Huxley coming to see this phenomenon.
Studied effect of poisons 12 or 15 years ago to see whether the action was similar to that on nervous tissue.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 26 June [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-08) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8952 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 June 1873
Summary
Thanks for Dionaea.
George Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1873): viii–xxix]. Admires it greatly.
CD’s recent work leads him to a different theory [from GB’s] on the separation of the sexes of plants.
Huxley has been at Down working with CD on Drosera – very helpful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 263–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8956 |
To Charles Lyell 28 June [1873]
Summary
Thanks for the extract from the American paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 28 June [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8956F |
To W. H. Flower 30 June 1873
Summary
Thanks for sending WHF’s lecture, ‘On palaeontological evidence of the modifications of animal forms’ (Flower 1873).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | 30 June 1873 |
Classmark: | John Innes Foundation Historical Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8958F |
letter | (16) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Blackley, C. H. | (1) |
Cochrane, A. A. L. P. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Dapsy, Laszlo | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Blackley, C. H. | (1) |
Cochrane, A. A. L. P. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |