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DCP-LETT-10323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
25 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 137–138)
Summary:

Thanks for errata in Insectivorous plants.

Sends spare copies of his papers, but thinks several are not worth publishing.

Has only one copy, which he will lend JVC, of the best one, on "Erratic boulders of South America" [Collected papers 1: 145–63].

Has not sent "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137], as he is sure he was wrong.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10324

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Nature , 17 February 1876, pp. 304–5
Summary:

"Sambaquis", or shell mounds accumulated by former inhabitants of the coast, contain shells of some animals that FM has never seen living.

Ants that live on imbauba trees (Cecropia) are attracted by small bodies at base of each petiole.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10325

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.482)
Summary:

Sends books.

Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.483)
Summary:

Encloses list of errata in Insectivorous plants [1875] for the French translator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10327

From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 262
Summary:

He is proposing [John Wesley] Judd for FRS and asks for CD’s support.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10328

From:
Henry Edwards
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 163: 3
Summary:

Sends his paper on an American pitcher-plant [Darlingtonia californica].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10329

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 189
Summary:

AG’s notices of Insectivorous plants [Nation 22 (1876): 12–14, 30–2]

and Climbing plants [2d ed., Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 11 (1876): 69–74].

Use of flower peduncles for support in Maurandia. Transition from branches to tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/20)
Summary:

Is glad ARW will attend to vote for Lankester [at the Linnean Society].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10331

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 302
Summary:

BJS has just moved.

Gives the information he has of their old shipmates.

Tells of his brother’s misfortunes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10331F

From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Discusses fairy rings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10331G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
Date:
29 Dec 1875
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 88953/4)
Summary:

Has signed John Wesley Judd’s certificate.

Hopes his wife, Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne, will not forget about the meeting at the Linnean Society on 3 February; feels E. R. Lankester’s case is very cruel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10362F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 30
Summary:

[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10732

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

News of the parish and neighbours.

CD pleased JBI is interested in his book [Cross and self-fertilisation].

He is pretty well and hard at work with Francis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13826

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:
26 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Bonhams, New York (dealers), 4 December 2019, lot 18)
Summary:

Sends Charles Lyell’s letters. Those from 1862–9 are so heavy that they have to be put in two parcels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8133

From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Dec 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 32
Summary:

Regrets having missed seeing CD when he was in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9216

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Edwards
Date:
[after 26 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
Parke-Bernet (dealers) (24 September 1963)
Summary:

Thanks for sending "wonderful speciment of Darlingtonia".

"I will not forget your obliging offer of giving me information with respect to California about which I may be curious."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001651

From:
Frederick John Owen Evans
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 December 1875
Source of text:
MM/21/96, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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FVM-75-12-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
25 December 1875
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 170-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

WCP2327

From:
Charles Wentworth Dilke
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 December 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 321-322
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP2552

From:
James Cubitt
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
11 December 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 119-122
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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