To Arthur Nicols [8–10 March 1871]
Summary
The information about the phascolarctos [koala] is very surprising, and he will preserve AM’s note.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Date: | [8, 9 or 10] Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | Nicols 1883, p. 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7555F |
From Arthur Nicols 18 January 1878
Summary
He has obtained further evidence that rats gnaw through lead pipes for water. CD’s opinion that they hear trickling confirms his view that they possess reason.
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11324 |
To Arthur Nicols [after 24 February 1876]
Summary
Supports AN’s idea [of a natural history book for children].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Date: | [after 24 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 65/1v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10409 |
From Arthur Nicols [before 10 November 1875]
Summary
Discusses his ambitions.
Writes of rats that gnaw through lead pipes to find water.
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 10 Nov 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10253 |
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 |
To Arthur Nicols [after 20 August 1872?]
Summary
Can believe animals communicate together, but does not know how.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Date: | [after 20 Aug 1872?] |
| Classmark: | Nicols 1885, p. 192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8477F |
To Arthur Nicols [20 March 1873]
Summary
Responds to AN’s observations on sense of smell in cats and dogs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Date: | [20 Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | Nicols 1885, p. 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8817G |
From Arthur Nicols 11 March 1871
Summary
His previous account of Phascolarctos was based on notes made at the time of observation.
His report of the successful adoption of a koala infant by a cat comes from a trustworthy observer.
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7570 |
From Arthur Nicols 8 December 1875
Summary
He will repeat his experiments on the cat’s sense of smell.
The intelligence of rats is shown by their gnawing through lead pipes to find water.
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10290 |
From Arthur Nicols 23 August 1872
Summary
Doubts reported cases of homing instinct in dogs.
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8484 |
From J. A. Ransome-Marriott 1 September 1876
Summary
Reports on rats that gnawed holes in lead pipes.
| Author: | John Arthur Ransome-Marriott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10586 |
From Arthur Nicols 10 November 1875
Summary
Apologises for troubling CD to look for his lost MS.
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10255 |
To Nature [before 13 March 1873]
Summary
Recounts instances suggesting that animals have a sense of direction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 13 Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 13 March 1873, p. 360 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8809 |
To Francis Darwin 8 October [1876]
Summary
Sends an article for FD.
Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10635 |
From Arthur Nicols 24 February 1876
Summary
Is putting together a natural history book for intelligent children [The puzzle of life (1877)]; would like CD’s opinion on the project in general and on the completed first chapter in particular.
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10408 |
From W. W. Keen 26 September 1873
Summary
Sends corrections of Descent and Expression.
| Author: | William Williams Keen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 24–5, DAR 169: 2, and Expression 2d ed., p. 169 n. 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9072 |
To Nature [before 27 March 1879]
Summary
In reply to a query [in Nature 19 (1879): 433] CD reports that vessels full of water were kept on the deck of a ship to discourage rats from gnawing holes in the ship’s water casks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 27 Mar 1879] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 27 March 1879, p. 481 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8826 |
From A. C. Horner 23 December 1881
Summary
Detailed criticism of Earthworms.
| Author: | Arthur Claypon Horner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 268 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13578 |
From Arthur Nicols 15 April 1871
Summary
Objects to the negative reviews of Descent, notably in the Athenæum and the Times.
The exceptions are the Academy, Nature, and his own, in the Field [37 (1871): 210].
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7687 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Horner, A. C. | (1) |
| Keen, W. W. | (1) |
| Ransome-Marriott, J. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Nicols, Arthur | (4) |
| Nature | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Nicols, Arthur | (15) |
| Nature | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Horner, A. C. | (1) |
