From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 3
Summary:
Uses of tails of mice. Functions of tails generally.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin John Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 74
Summary:
Reports an Araujia in Portugal that captures various insects on the horns of its stigma. Relates this to another asclepiad, Apocynum, which also captures insects. Is this "insectivory" or insect fertilisation?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 20–1
Summary:
No action on assistance yet, but has had a private note from Disraeli asking whether Thiselton-Dyer is his recommendation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 4
Summary:
Sends a short essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] on which he would welcome CD’s opinion. Believes problems of pathology can be attacked by regarding them from "Darwinian" point of view.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 445
Summary:
A curious alteration in the reprint of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Horatio Piggot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 69: 73
Summary:
Suggests advantage to students of adding coloured drawings of the coral-producing zoophytes in next edition of Coral reefs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horatio Piggot
Date:
20 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Thanks for his suggestion about drawings for future edition [of Coral reefs].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
20 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover (Noviss. 450: A 48)
Summary:
Has read RLT’s essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] with interest. His facts about tumours seem to CD "highly favourable to some such notion as Pangenesis".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anton Bachmaier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 11
Summary:
Thanks for reference concerning regeneration of human fingers and toes.
Sends lecture on language.
Asks for information about animal communication by vocal sounds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin John Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 75
Summary:
He will write to Portugal for the insect-capturing Araujia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 446
Summary:
Sends CD a cheque for 68 guineas – his two-thirds share of profit on sale of 2000 copies of 2d edition of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Pennington Thomasson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 109
Summary:
On nesting habits of pied and spotted flycatchers.
JPT disagrees with CD’s comment in Descent.
Marriages of first cousins produce congenital deaf-mutism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Antony Ewoud Jan Modderman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Leiden University Libraries (shelfmark ASF inv.nr. 327 document 55)
Summary:
Informing CD (and 20 others) of the award of an honorary degree by Leiden University.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Oswald Heer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 131
Summary:
Discusses his work [Flora fossilis Arctica, vol. 4, pt 1 (1876)].
Sends copy of [Fossile Pflanzen von Sumatra (1874)]. Comments on climate in Tertiary period, especially on Sumatra.
Comments on theory of Thomas Belt concerning climatic change in ice age.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
25 Mar 1875
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 62, July 1989)
Summary:
Would be glad to make RLT’s acquaintance, but CD’s health would make RLT’s visit to Down unprofitable. Suggests a meeting in London at end of month.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Burgess
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: D15–16
Summary:
TB, who sailed with CD [as a Royal Marine] in the Beagle, asks for CD’s portrait. Recalls some events they shared.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 5
Summary:
Is preparing a paper on the umbilical cord ["On the anatomy of the umbilical cord", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 23 (1875): 498–501; 24 (1876): 417–40] of which he sends a preliminary note [missing]. Believes spiral growth of the umbilical cord is important evidence of the descent of man; speculates on spiral growth in general.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 382–3
Summary:
Has at last finished Insectivorous plants
and is rewriting Climbing plants.
W. W. Ouless has finished his picture of CD for Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Pennington Thomasson
Date:
30 Mar 1875
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8876(i))
Summary:
Seems to be in error about the nests of the two flycatchers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
31 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 82
Summary:
Has just come to London. Invites TB to luncheon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
- Bachmaier, Anton1
- Balfour, F. M.1
- Bennett, A. W.1
- Burgess, Thomas1
- Cooke, R. F.1
- Cupples, George1
- Darwin, C. R.14
- Darwin, Emma1
- Dawkins, W. B.1
- Fiske, John1
- Foster, Michael2
- Harrison, Frederic1
- Heer, Oswald2
- Hooker, J. D.3
- Hooker, Joseph1
- John Murray1
- Johnston, E. J.2
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Modderman, A. E. J.1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von3
- Murray, John (b)1
- Newton, Alfred2
- Piggot, Horatio1
- Ruxton, G. A.1
- Tait, Lawson4
- Thomasson, J. P.1
- Traube, Moritz1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel5
- Wolfe, G. A.1
- Wollaston, Thomas Vernon1
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