From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 344
Summary:
Arrangements for CD’s appearance before Vivisection Commission.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A83–A86
Summary:
Outlines a memoir he will give at the Anthropological Society in which he differs theoretically with Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A87
Summary:
Sends a proof of his "Theory of heredity" from the Contemporary Review [27 (1875): 80–95; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 329–48]. Welcomes CD’s help and criticism.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 21
Summary:
Composition of "Droserin" [see 10015].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 65
Summary:
Thanks CD for Climbing plants and Insectivorous plants.
Discusses his research on phylogeny. Results described in "Die Gastrula und die Eifurchung der Tiere" [Jena. Z. Naturw. 9 (1875): 402–508].
Describes newly discovered coral.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: B123
Summary:
Thanks for Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Is reading proofs [of Geographical distribution (1876)].
Contributor:
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From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 180: 19
Summary:
Thanks for 2d edition of Climbing plants and for CD’s recognition of HdeV’s two essays on the subject [Climbing plants, pp. v–vi, 9 n., 22, 160]. Cause of spiral growth of tendrils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 42–4
Summary:
Sends successful graft-hybrid of red and white carrot.
CD should correct passage in Variation explaining deformation of sternum in fowls [Variation, 2d ed., 1: 287–8].
Chapter in Variation on Pangenesis is admirable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A88–9
Summary:
Responds to suggestions and criticisms CD made to "theory of heredity" [see 10245].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 10 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 62
Summary:
Discusses his ambitions.
Writes of rats that gnaw through lead pipes to find water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 63
Summary:
Apologises for troubling CD to look for his lost MS.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 123
Summary:
Gives an example of the power of reasoning shown by dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 22
Summary:
Has CD ever come across Dischidia rafflesiana?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 23
Summary:
Has extracted a highly deliquescent substance from digestive secretion of insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 180: 20
Summary:
Hopes to continue study of climbing plants next summer and to observe facts mentioned in CD’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.11: 3
Summary:
Report on sales of Origin, Insectivorous plants, and Climbing plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 102
Summary:
Queries concerned with his translation of Insectivorous plants, which has been delayed by illness but is now two-thirds done.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 24
Summary:
His paper [for Royal Society] is completed; would CD like to read it?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 478
Summary:
Sends cheques in payment on three of CD’s books.
Proposes to print 500 copies of Insectivorous plants before distributing the type.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: 97
Summary:
Can cut the electros from the plates of the illustrations for the new edition of Variation if they are the same as in the first edition.
Has received plates for Climbing plants and will print immediately.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
Correspondent
- Accademia dei Lincei1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Cooke, R. F.1
- D. Appleton & Co1
- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Galton, Francis4
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Huxley, T. H.1
- John Murray1
- Murray, John (b)3
- Nicols, Arthur2
- Romanes, G. J.1
- Scott, W. H.1
- Sella, Quintino1
- Tait, Lawson7
- Vries, Hugo de2
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- FEWER