From:
Francis Eugene Nipher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 172: 70
Summary:
Cites more examples of inheritance of maternal impressions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer
Date:
12 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Thanks for work on Lacerta muralis coerulea [Zoologische Studien auf Capri 2 (1874)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 194
Summary:
Describes his university lectures on evolution and their publication in a book [Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte (1875)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 350–1, DAR 97: C73
Summary:
Thanks JDH for his and Huxley’s countering of the false attack on George [Darwin] by Mivart. Encloses a note to Mivart on which he asks JDH’s opinion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Dec 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 342–3)
Summary:
Sends a suggested title [for Insectivorous plants?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
15 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (Rathbone XXI.12.3: 4)
Summary:
Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.
Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 118
Summary:
Awakened by a mouse scratching at night, he mewed like a cat and the mouse disappeared.
Sending a group of stuffed sparrows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.455)
Summary:
Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].
Discusses breeding and sterility.
Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.
Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 111
Summary:
Sends three specimens of Aldrovanda verticillata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/4)
Summary:
Asks four favours: sort out confusion about the name Byblis gigantea or grandiflora; can he see dried specimens of Genlisea ornata; is there a more recent list of Drosera spp. than Steudel 1841; are there at Kew any dried specimens of Utricularia montana collected from the plant’s native haunts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 72
Summary:
Bishop J. W. Colenso supports his old contention that the Kaffirs (including Zulus of South Africa) are Negroes.
[Horace Waller’s] The last journals of David Livingstone [in central Africa (1874)] cites CD’s plant research and has many facts "for Darwin".
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 112–13
Summary:
Sends Utricularia montana and Byblis species.
Drosera census numbers 100 species.
Genlisea distinguished from Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.12
- Romanes, G. J.5
- Darwin, G. H.4
- Huxley, T. H.4
- Dodel-Port, Arnold3
- Oliver, Daniel3
- Gray, Asa2
- Haeckel, Ernst2
- Nevill, D. F.2
- Reinwald, C.-F.2
- Tyndall, John2
- Walpole, D. F.2
- Asher & Co.1
- Belt, Thomas1
- Crichton-Browne, James1
- Davis, Mary1
- Eimer, Theodor1
- Fiske, John1
- Heathorn, H. A.1
- Huxley, H. A.1
- King, George1
- Lubbock, John1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Nipher, F. E.1
- Noll, F. C.1
- Ogle, William1
- Reade, W. W.1
- Rejlander, O. G.1
- Sidgwick, Henry1
- Treat, Mary1
- Unidentified1
- Walker, W. G.1
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
Date
Document type
Repository
- American Philosophical Society6
- Cambridge University Library39
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library, Case Western Reserve University1
- Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität1
- Harvard University, Archives of the Gray Herbarium1
- Houle Rare Books and Autographs (dealers)1
- Huntington Library1
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College1
- Janet Huxley (private collection)1
- Jeremy Norman (dealer)1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland1
- John Wilson Manuscripts Limited (dealer), Painswick Lawn, 7 Painswick Road1
- Newcastle University Special Collections GB186, Newcastle upon Tyne1
- University of Liverpool Library1
- Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin1
- Zentralbibliothek Zürich2
- FEWER