To ? 28 November [1873]
Summary
Will not require assistance of correspondent’s cousin in correcting his MS [2d ed. of Descent]. His son [George] will undertake it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Nov [1873] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9163 |
To Charles Lyell [9 November 1873 or 26 April or 6 December 1874]
Summary
Arranges a visit to CL.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [9 Nov] 1873 or [26 Apr or 6 Dec] 1874 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8715 |
From Gerard Krefft [c. 1 November 1873?]
Summary
Describes the behaviour of a pet donkey and pig.
Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 1 Nov 1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8834 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 [November 1873]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 [Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 133-4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9054 |
From Godfrey Wedgwood [November 1873]
Summary
Captive and tame birds inheriting the migratory instinct.
Author: | Godfrey Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9121 |
To Down School Board [after 29 November 1873]
Summary
CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Down School Board |
Date: | [after 29 Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9122 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 November 1873]
Summary
Sends leaves and names by post.
Is writing everywhere for Drosophyllum.
Is deeply interested in Desmodium.
Had no intention of publishing on Nepenthes, the experiments were solely for CD’s "eating". Will continue with egg and raw meat experiments. Asks for advice on how to prove fluid is secreted by the glands.
Searles Wood’s letter is confused and would deny atavism if his principles were accepted.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 178–80, DAR 209.12: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9123 |
From Gerard Krefft 1 November 1873
Summary
Many insects visit Eucalyptus flowers as long as there is pollen to be seen. Asking his colleague, George Masters, to gather insects and flowers at Long Bay for CD.
Observations on wild New Guinea pig in captivity.
Will take CD’s advice to write a book.
Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9124 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 November 1873
Summary
W. H. Flower is ill and obliged to go off for six months. Wants to return the money Flower contributed to fund for his holiday, asks the amount.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9126 |
To [J. P. Thomasson] 3 November 1873
Summary
Thanks for the paragraph, which he had not seen and now returns.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Pennington Thomasson |
Date: | 3 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | Hull University Archives (Thomasson family papers: U DX163/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9126F |
To John Fiske 3 November [1873]
Summary
CD is glad to hear of nature of JF’s work;
proposes that JF call when CD comes to London.
Has read JF’s attack on Agassiz ["Agassiz and Darwinism"] in Popular Science Monthly [3 (1873): 692–705].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 3 Nov [1873] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9127 |
To Virginius Dabney 3 November 1873
Summary
Thanks VD for information on caterpillars selecting food plants from within one family,
and on similar behaviour in hogs, which will not eat any plants from a family containing some poisonous members.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Virginius Dabney |
Date: | 3 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 56 MSS 3082-a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9128 |
From Gerard Krefft 3 November 1873
Summary
Letter of introduction for Mr Bradley, an expert on spiders.
Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9129 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 November [1873]
Summary
Discusses experiments and observations on pitchers [of Nepenthes]. Suggests procedures for JDH to follow.
Any plant of any family with a terminal or with any lateral leaflets greatly reduced would be interesting to CD for studying spontaneous movements.
Has not received Eucalyptus or Acacia plants from Rollisson.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Nov [1873] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 ff. 2–3 and 39a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9130 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 November 1873
Summary
Answers THH’s query about W. H. Flower; gives the amount he contributed to the gift. Advises against returning it, even anonymously. Hopes WHF’s health improves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 303) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9131 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 November 1873
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9132 |
From J. T. Moggridge 4 November 1873
Summary
Formic acid kills seeds but only rarely makes them dormant – as he presumes ants do. He finds great variation in the vigour of individual seeds. Harvester ants, used in place of formic acid, do not affect germination.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9133 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 November [1873]
Summary
Suggests experiment and observations to carry out on pitcher [of Nepenthes].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Nov [1873] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 f.5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9134 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 November 1873
Summary
Is coming to stay in London and wants to arrange a visit to Kew to talk with JDH, see the Eucalypti, and observe Mimosa albida.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 f.4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9135 |
From Alfred Moschkau 10 November 1873
Summary
Has been studying Origin and other works. Has lectured on the subject and would like to send some of his conclusions if CD is willing.
Author: | Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 250 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9137 |
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Krefft, Gerard | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Wallace, A. R. | (5) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Krefft, Gerard | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Bowman, William | (2) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Bianconi, G. G. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Crotch, W. D. | (1) |
Dabney, Virginius | (1) |
Down School Board | (1) |
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Fiske, John | (1) |
Frankland, Edward | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
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Moschkau, Alfred | (1) |
Salzmann, Valentin | (1) |
Thomasson, J. P. | (1) |
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Wedgwood, Godfrey | (1) |
Weir, J. J. | (1) |