From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
23 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 143: 178
Summary:
Expresses his feelings following the death of Charles Lyell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 16–19
Summary:
On Lyell’s death; JDH has arranged for burial in Westminster Abbey. His thoughts on a testimonial.
More trouble with Lord Henry Lennox.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
24 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 143: 81
Summary:
Will not come to London for some weeks. Hopes to make TB’s acquaintance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 173 fos. 1–5
Summary:
Speculates on the function of eyebrows and of hair and the furrows of the forehead. Considers many features and faculties to serve, or to have served, more than one function, either simultaneously or successively. Determining the one function through which natural selection has acted in developing it is unrealistic and not worth while.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
24 Feb 1875
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Montague Collection of historical autographs: Series 1, box 2, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Is much obliged to TW and his friend for having told him about the azalea, but CD had already seen the account.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 379–81
Summary:
CD on his memory of Lyell. Deeply rejoices that he is to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
25 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Max Rambod (dealer) (December 2001)
Summary:
"Last night it suddenly occurred to me that I had not sent you the last Edition of the Descent of Man published in November."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
1 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/16, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
3 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/17, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
4 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/18, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
15 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/19, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
20 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/20, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
22 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/21, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
24 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/22, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
26 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/23, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 February 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.50, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH informs Asa Gray that he is very busy & feeling the weight of his responsibilities. Hs main concern is [his daughter] Harriet Hooker's health. She will be sent to the South of France, probably to stay with friends in Cannes, later JDH will join her & they will travel to Algiers to visit Colonel Playfair. JDH & Playfair will make a tour of Algiers from April to May [1875]. JDH's Aunt, Mrs Dawson Turner of Liverpool, will keep the house whilst JDH is away. Her children have been guests of JDH as they have no house, their father Dawson William Turner is in confinement but will soon be out & JDH hopes to send him on a long voyage 'to secure his health'. JDH has found that Elliottia is synonymous with Tripetaleia of Japan. He continues to work on GENERA PLANTARUM, currently struggling with Sapotaceae. Mentions that Miguel has made omissions of [Richard] Spruce & [George] Gardner in the FLORA BRASILIENSIS. Asks Gray for specimens of Shortia, he has kept it distinct from Schizocodon following [Carl Johann] Maximovicz, whose work he admires. By contrast he does not like the way Baillon works.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 February 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.51, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH has received Asa Gray's letter of 12 Feb [1875]. He reports that his great friend [Sir Charles] Lyell is dead. JDH got up a petition for Lyell's burial in Westminster Abbey, signed by fellows of the Royal, Linnean & Geological Societies, & Stanley has as good as offered this honour. Lyell's brother died 3 weeks earlier. Mentions Gray's rheumatism. Dismisses Mrs Sullivant & advises Gray to do the same. Gray's request for catalogues of scientific papers has not yet come before the Royal Society Library Committee. JDH is sending Gray's herbarium [Harvard University Herbarium] a copy as a gift from himself, the cost will be more than covered by the sale of Gay's duplicate specimens so he will also send the SYNOPSIS FILICUM & Plate III of FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA. Accepts Gray's offer of Jamaican plants, though he cannot be certain they are new. [George] Bentham seems well but is plagued by sudden attacks of diarrhoea. In an additional annotation JDH mentions the [William] Carruthers affair & that: 'Nathaniel Lindley is Counsel for the King'.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
27 February 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.10-11, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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- Bachmaier, Anton1
- Belt, Thomas1
- Bianconi, G. G.2
- Buckley, A. B.1
- Burdon Sanderson, J. S.2
- Carus, J. V.2
- Cayley, Arthur8
- Clark, J. W. (b)1
- Cupples, George1
- D. Appleton & Co1
- Darwin, C. R.46
- Darwin, Francis1
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Davis, Mary1
- Dohrn, Anton2
- Douglas, J. C.1
- Draper, J. W.1
- Fritsche, Gustavus1
- Gibb, James1
- Goodacre, F. B.1
- Gray, Asa2
- Günther, Albert2
- Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine), Lady Hyacinth1
- Hooker, J. D.9
- Jäger, Gustav1
- Knowles, J. T.2
- Murray, John (b)2
- Nevill, D. F.2
- Retzius, Gustaf1
- Robertson, G. C.2
- Sylvester, James Joseph8
- Treat, Mary1
- Unidentified5
- Walpole, D. F.2
- Woolner, Thomas1
- Wright, Chauncey1
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