From James Crichton-Browne 2 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for Expression. Will write paper on it in next [July] West Riding Asylum Medical Report.
Sends photos of lunatics;
will send notes corroborative of CD’s views, including some on "hereditarily transmitted movements".
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8795 |
From Thomas Meehan 3 March 1873
Summary
Although he believes in evolution, TM feels that natural selection is an inadequate cause;
nor is he satisfied with E. D. Cope’s law of acceleration and retardation.
Discusses some of his work relating to nutrition and sex and colour and sex.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8796 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 4 March 1873
Summary
Recounts the difficulties in preparing the French translation of Origin: the 1870 war, the illness and death of J. J. Moulinié, the alterations and additions from the 6th English edition. Despite competition from Royer’s three editions, Reinwald is contemplating a new edition.
Descent, vol. 1, has almost sold out. Offers CD £40 for rights to reprint a corrected version of Descent.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8797 |
From W. H. Hall 5 March 1873
Author: | William Honnywill Hall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 53.2: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8800 |
From W. F. Collier 7 March 1873
Summary
Opposes all corporal punishment. Pleased CD agrees with his pamphlet.
Author: | Collier, W. F. |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8801 |
From Henry Reeks 8 March 1873
Summary
Insists that suckling babies pound and scratch mothers’ breasts. Perhaps CD’s evidence to the contrary comes from ladies, who only expose small portion of bosom, as opposed to working-class women.
Author: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8802 |
From F. B. Johnston 9 March 1873
Summary
Various observations on sexual selection portion of Descent – ostriches, rosy-billed duck, egrets, rails, etc.
Author: | F. B Johnston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 183–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8803 |
From Athénaïs Michelet 9 March 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for one of his books.
Author: | Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8804 |
From Otto Caspari 12 March 1873
Summary
Sends CD a copy of his book [Die Urgeschichte der Menschheit, 2 vols. (1873)].
In Germany CD’s views have achieved great recognition among naturalists, but in other disciplines there is great controversy. OC’s book seeks to resolve the controversy by showing how state, morals, religion, and church have developed from natural beginnings.
Author: | Gotthold Heinrich Otto (Otto) Caspari |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8808 |
From G. M. Humphry [before 14] March 1873
Summary
A circular advertising a meeting at the Senate House, Cambridge, on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Professor Adam Sedgwick.
Author: | George Murray Humphry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 14] Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | CUL Cambridge University Registry guard books: Sedgwick Memorial Museum 1873–1924 CUR 110: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8809F |
From A. W. Bennett 16 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8811 |
From Hubert Airy 17 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on appearance of abstract of HA’s paper [Nature 7 (1873): 343–4].
Explains again his theory of "contraction with twist" by which compact buds and a spiral phyllotaxy have evolved. Explains how the peculiar phyllotaxy of the teasel is explicable by this process of "condensation".
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8812 |
From William Pengelly 17 March 1873
Summary
CD’s notice in Nature [Collected papers 2: 171–2] induces WP to send letters from correspondents recounting stories of a dog that learned to open a door and of another that found his way home from London to Cowes.
Author: | William Pengelly |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | Pengelly ed. 1897, pp. 229–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8813 |
From J. C. Costerus and N. D. Doedes 18 March 1873
Summary
Two students express their gratitude and admiration.
Author: | Nicolaas Dirk Doedes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8815 |
From Arthur Nicols [before 20 March 1873]
Summary
Compares sense of smell in dogs and cats.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 20 Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | Nicols 1885, pp. 51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8817F |
From G. H. Eggers 21 March 1873
Summary
An admirer sends clipping from Bremen newspaper on hybrid between orange and lemon.
Author: | G. H Eggers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8819 |
From Johannes Huber 22 March 1873
Summary
Describes his critique of natural selection [Die Lehre Darwins kritisch betrachtet (1871)].
Author: | Johannes Nepomuk (Johannes) Huber |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8820 |
From Raphael Meldola 24 March 1873
Summary
Gives some information on variation of ocelli between sexes in butterfly species.
Proposes publishing a series of papers on mimicry.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8821 |
From W. W. Reade 25 March [1873]
Summary
H. W. Bates says CD is in town. WWR would like to call.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8822 |
From Robert Swinhoe 26 March 1873
Summary
Discusses expression among the Chinese. Reports certain physical characters and the practice of certain unusual customs.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 336 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8824 |
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