From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Sidgwick
Date:
19 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Thanks for his Methods of ethics [1874].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 352–3
Summary:
Asks JDH to help G. J. Romanes, who wishes to try Pangenesis experiment.
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 63
Summary:
Discusses his Anthropogenie [1874]. Remarks on the tables.
Has CD received Friedrich von Hellwald’s Culturgeschichte [1875]?
Plans research trip to the Mediterranean.
Contributor:
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 145: 368
Summary:
Is writing confidentially not to justify the passage referred to [see 9759], which he much regrets, but to state facts. He never intended any personal hostility to [George] Darwin and seeks advice about how to make reparation.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 236–8; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Dawson 2.214)
Summary:
His view of Huxley’s cutting Mivart without explanation. States his own intentions. Mivart’s apology in October Quarterly Review is abominable.
Has heard of a Drosophyllum in Edinburgh. Is it too late?
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 273
Summary:
Thanks THH and Hooker for defending George Darwin against Mivart’s libel.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 354–5
Summary:
Expresses his gratitude to JDH and Huxley in the Mivart affair. Thinks he should write directly to Mivart, if Mivart does not retract.
Would be glad to have another Drosophyllum.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 239–40
Summary:
Will help Romanes. Offers Kew’s facilities for experiments. Is writing to the Board [of Works?] about a physiological laboratory, which Sir Philip Joddrell has offered to build. Thinks Government should support original research like Romanes’.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.456)
Summary:
Urges GJR to visit Hooker at Kew.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 356–7; DAR 166: 336
Summary:
Entirely sympathises with CD about Mivart’s attack on George. THH has had a letter from Mivart in which he pleads guilty, but THH has decided there is no patching the matter up. Advises against doing anything unless Mivart takes initiative.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
[23 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 336
Summary:
A severe letter of rebuke to Mivart for his attack on G. H. Darwin.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
23 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:
Thanks AD-P for sending his work, not yet received, on evolution [Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte (1875)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 311)
Summary:
THH’s letter to Mivart is "tremendous". CD’s feelings and intentions about the matter.
If THH has made out homology of the skull, it is grandest discovery in years.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 358–9
Summary:
Encloses note from Huxley and copy of Huxley’s answer to Mivart – a tremendous reproof. On Huxley’s advice, CD will not write to Mivart. Thinks Mivart’s private apology to Huxley makes the case even worse.
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 114
Summary:
Sends capsules with results from Genlisea specimens and fragments of Polypompholyx.
Contributor:
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 145: 369
Summary:
A confidential letter explaining in detail the extent to which he regrets his attack upon [George] Darwin’s article.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (110)
Summary:
Read AG’s article [see 9753] on longevity and duration of varieties with great interest.
Death of Mrs Hooker.
Hopes Insectivorous plants will be out in the spring.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 241–2
Summary:
Has gone over Huxley’s letter, thinks it a model. All must now await developments. If Mivart does not apologise, JDH will write to him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
26 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/32)
Summary:
Comments on review of EH’s Anthropogenie [1874].
Mentions recent work of Huxley and other scientists.
Contributor:
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From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 23
Summary:
Would like to know the results of CD’s Utricularia experiments.
A Brazilian love-bird, escaped from captivity, has been found in a robin’s nest, apparently starved to death along with three young robins.
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Author
Correspondent
- ?1
- Asher & Co.1
- Barry, Redmond1
- Belt, Thomas1
- Bentham, George3
- Crichton-Browne, James1
- Darwin, C. R.61
- Darwin, Emma3
- Darwin, G. H.4
- Darwin, Leonard4
- Davis, Mary1
- Dodel-Port, Arnold3
- Dresser, Henry Eeles1
- Eimer, Theodor1
- Fiske, John1
- Gray, Asa2
- Haeckel, Ernst2
- Heathorn, H. A.1
- Hooker, J. D.13
- Hooker, Joseph2
- Huxley, H. A.1
- Huxley, T. H.7
- Ingleby, Clement Mansfield1
- King, George1
- Litchfield, H. E.3
- Litchfield?, H. E.1
- Lubbock, John1
- Mivart, S. G. J.3
- Mueller, Ferdinand von7
- Murray, John (b)1
- Nevill, D. F.2
- Newton, Alfred2
- Nipher, F. E.1
- Noll, F. C.1
- Ogle, William1
- Oliver, Daniel3
- Ramsay, Edward1
- Reade, W. W.1
- Reinwald, C.-F.2
- Rejlander, O. G.1
- Romanes, G. J.5
- Sharpe, Richard Bowdler2
- Sidgwick, Henry1
- Sorby, Henry Clifton2
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner1
- Treat, Mary1
- Tyndall, John2
- Unidentified1
- Walker, W. G.1
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel9
- Walpole, D. F.2
- FEWER