To G. H. Darwin 24 [October 1873]
Summary
"It is a fearfully difficult moral problem about speaking out on religion, & I have never been able to make up my mind."
An Irishman, a "grand breeder" of short-horns, declared at lunch that CD’s books had been "a great help to [him] in breeding!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 24 [Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9111 |
To J. D. Hooker [before 25 October 1873]
Summary
Suggests experiments to try [with Nepenthes].
Asks JDH to test whether cabbage seeds and peas exposed to the ferment germinate.
Cancel: same as 9523.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [before 25 Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 151: 330 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9112 |
To John Downing 25 October [1873]
Summary
Has read letters and MS with great interest.
No ill effects from JD’s visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Downing |
Date: | 25 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | Downing 1890, p. 534 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9113F |
To J. D. Hooker 26 October [1873]
Summary
Extremely glad to hear of the aggregation in Nepenthes glands. Advises on experimenting with cubes of albumen – gives sizes, also suggests cubes of roast meat. Thanks for analyses of secretion of Nepenthes.
Asks for cutting of Acacia farnesiana.
Longs to examine a species of Desmodium with three leaflets. Has asked Frank [Darwin] to look for species of Desmodium with tendrils.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 284–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9114 |
To A. O. Kovalevsky 28 October 1873
Summary
Thanks for AOK’s work on the larvae of the Ascidians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Александр Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 28 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | Milestones of Science Books (dealers) (2021 catalogue 2, item 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9115F |
To J. D. Hooker 30 October [1873]
Summary
Thanks for leaves. His notes on them will be of greatest service.
He cannot distinguish some Eucalypti from Acacia. Sends specimens, with numbers, for JDH to name.
Acacia farnesiana branches arrived withered, but saw enough to make him wish to examine the plant.
Has thought of some troublesome experiments for Drosophyllum.
Encloses remarks [missing] by Searles Wood, with which CD disagrees, about a new and strongly marked variety transmitting its characters.
The competition of better adapted forms seems to CD a sufficient explanation [for extinction].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 286–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9117 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 October 1873
Summary
On Nepenthes.
Asks JDH, if he publishes, to mention CD’s work on digestive powers of Drosera so that charges of plagiarism will not be made against CD later when he publishes.
Describes at length his observations on the movements of Desmodium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 300–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9118 |
To Herbert Spencer 31 October [1873]
Summary
Discusses adaptations in flowers and their heritability.
Mentions advertisements for HS’s book [? Study of sociology (1873)].
Thought HS would have profited by principle that a character appearing late in life is inherited at same age.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
Date: | 31 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 486 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9119 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 18 October [1873]
Summary
Suggests experiments on artificial digestion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9684 |
To Theodor Eimer 21 October [1873]
Summary
Thanks for TE’s work on [Beroe?] with illustrations of its parts [Zoologische Studien auf Capri 1 (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer |
Date: | 21 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9690 |
letter | (30) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Frankland, Edward | (3) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Frankland, Edward | (3) |