From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 204
Summary:
EBT’s brother, Alfred Tylor, wishes to visit CD with George Young.
AT’s "pluvial period" theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 167: 32
Summary:
Writes about a white rabbit which is turning fawn-coloured,
and about Scottish education.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Crowther Brown
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 324
Summary:
Notes absence of material on fossil coral reefs in CD’s 2d edition [Coral reefs (1874)]. Has been collecting specimens from a fossil reef near his home for four years; gave many to Oxford.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 8
Summary:
A letter introducing T. F. Burgers, President of the Transvaal Republic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas François Burgers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C11v
Summary:
Would like to call on CD if convenient.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas François Burgers
Date:
[after 13 May 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C11r
Summary:
Proposes that TFB visit in about a week; at present CD is unwell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews
Date:
15 May [1875]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (10 November 2009); DAR 147: 245
Summary:
Discusses Vivisection Bill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
G. Chiantore
To:
John Murray
Date:
18 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 451
Summary:
Editor of L’Unione, Turin, would publish an Italian edition of Variation if the clichés of the English edition were made available at not more than £10.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic Francis Hallett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 89
Summary:
Sends his paper to show his priority over John Le Couteur. Claims discovery of the "law of development" of cereals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
18 May [1875 or 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C25
Summary:
CD has misplaced the annual audited balance sheet for the Down Friendly Society and wonders whether he has sent it to his correspondent in error.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic Francis Hallett
Date:
[19 or 20 May 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C26
Summary:
Thanks FFH for his note and enclosure [see 9982]. Quotes from Le Couteur [On … wheat (1836)?] to justify statements made in Variation [1868].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 340
Summary:
Lyon Playfair’s bill [on vivisection] is unacceptable to all teachers of physiology. It prohibits dissections for demonstrations to students. He will have to repudiate it. Asks CD’s advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 49
Summary:
The Government has decided to hold a Royal Commission on vivisection with Lord Cardwell as chairman.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic Francis Hallett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 90
Summary:
Insists that he, not Le Couteur, was the first to recognise and exploit variation within wheat varieties. Disturbed he was not acknowledged in Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
23 May [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C27
Summary:
Discusses the price to be charged to Appleton’s for the plates of Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 452
Summary:
Replies to CD’s various questions and suggestions concerning publication plans for Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin John Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 76
Summary:
The insect-capturing Araujia has been forwarded from Portugal.
He discovers Apocynum is not in the same family, and he has misquoted [John Leonard Knapp’s Journal of a naturalist (1829)]; Apocynum captures by stamens, not stigma.
Sends seeds of Portuguese Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 453
Summary:
A set of electros of the woodcuts to Variation was sent to an Italian publisher in 1869, but no reply or payment has been made since then.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 50
Summary:
The Vivisection Bill was defeated because it was repudiated by one of its own fathers: J. S. Burdon Sanderson.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Francis Segrave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 131
Summary:
Has heard from Italian minister that the inhabitants of the Japanese island of Saghalien [Sakhalin], lately ceded to Russia, have their bodies covered with hair, like the gorilla, and are supposedly the remnant of the aboriginal population of the Japanese islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
- Brown, T. C.1
- Burgers, T. F.1
- Chiantore, G.1
- Cooke, R. F.3
- Darwin, C. R.9
- Darwin, Elizabeth1
- Darwin, Emma2
- Darwin, Francis2
- Darwin, Leonard4
- Dohrn, Anton1
- Hallett, F. F.2
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Innes, J. B.1
- John Murray3
- Johnston, E. J.1
- Litchfield, H. E.2
- Morley, John3
- Murray, John (b)2
- Paget, James1
- Playfair, Lyon2
- Segrave, W. F.1
- Tylor, E. B.1
- FEWER