From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 256
Summary:
Has been appointed to a Keepership at British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 11–13
Summary:
Has met Capt. George Strong Nares of the Challenger expedition at Huxley’s.
Huxley much at a loss to explain red clay at deep sea-bottom.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
7 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 131–132)
Summary:
Thanks JVC for errata [in Descent, 2d ed.].
Discusses work in progress and publication plans.
Will be pleased to receive concluding volume of JVC’s Zoologie [see 8531].
Contributor:
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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 215
Summary:
Thanks to CD’s help Zoological Station has passed a crisis and is now flourishing.
Is writing pamphlet on "the origin of vertebrates and the principle of succession of functions" [see 9991 and 10003]. It is likely CD will not be pleased with it, but he thinks he must now, after seven years, bring it out. Seeks to open the way for a new series of theoretical questions.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
James Thomas Knowles
Date:
8 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 46
Summary:
Letter [to editor of Contemp. Rev.] saying that W. D. Whitney would like to reply to Max Müller. Hopes space can be given him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Warner Clark
Date:
9 Feb 1875
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:
Thanks for information about effect of fear on the iris.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
9 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Rejoices at AG’s "honourable & important" position [Keeper of the Zoological Department, British Museum].
Contributor:
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From:
James Thomas Knowles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney family papers (MS 555) Box 22, folder 584 1875 Feb. 8-11)
Summary:
Assures CD that space will be reserved in the April Contemporary Review for W. D. Whitney’s article and solicits an introductory section from C.D.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Feb 1875
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-21)
Summary:
Has been experimenting with phosphates on Drosera and wonders whether animals digest a particular one.
Asks whether Huxley has approached him regarding the introduction of a vivisection act.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 374–6
Summary:
Is provoked by trouble he is having writing Insectivorous plants.
Curious case of an unknown form of Glaucium in earth covered with slag for 1400 years.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
10 [Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 44
Summary:
J. T. Knowles [editor of Contemp. Rev.] hopes W. D. Whitney’s article will be a long one.
CD is sorry about GHD’s account of his low spirits. "I know well the feeling of life being objectless & all being vanity of vanities."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
[after 7 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 1120)
Summary:
The Zoological Station has already resulted in "capital work" by F. M. Balfour and Ray Lankester. G. J. Romanes is coming next year.
CD will be interested in AD’s ancestry of vertebrates. "I shall be very sorry to give up the ascidians."
Contributor:
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From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 177
Summary:
Structure of Utricularia; its resemblance to an animal vascular system.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:
12 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 33)
Summary:
His thanks for MGR’s valuable Anatomische Untersuchungen (1872).
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1875
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-39)
Summary:
Discusses the experiments with phosphates on Drosera and animals.
Considers the question of preparing a petition on the question of animal experiments, with the aim of promoting rather than hindering science. [Response to 9849.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustavus Fritsche
Date:
13 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (15 November 2009)
Summary:
Suggests that Fritsche comes to lunch on Tuesday 16 February.
Contributor:
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From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 [Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 30
Summary:
Understands from Lady Hawkshaw that CD generally visits London [in February]. Requests meeting with CD.
Contributor:
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From:
John William Draper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division (John William Draper Family Papers (Mss18986), Box 3)
Summary:
Asks to introduce Mr. N. Jovanovich of Belgrade, Serbia.
Contributor:
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From:
John Christie Douglas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 239
Summary:
Sends observations inspired by reading CD’s works.
Animal showing teeth an indication of pleasure, connected with sexual instinct.
Infant feet will curl around an object placed on the sole, indicating a primitive prehensile function.
Effects of climate on man’s physical countenance evidenced in similarity of N. American Indians and Yankees.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
15 Feb 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.463)
Summary:
Cannot visit now because of work on Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
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Date
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Repository
- American Philosophical Society1
- Bancroft Library, University of California1
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek1
- Cambridge University Library38
- Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien1
- Dr John Goodacre (private collection)1
- Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection)1
- Houghton Library, Harvard University1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland1
- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress1
- Max Rambod Inc., 23371 Mulholland Drive1
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney2
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond4
- Royal Society8
- Skinner Inc. (dealers)1
- Sotheby's (dealers)1
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz1
- Taylor Library, Shrewsbury School1
- The British Library1
- The New York Public Library (Manuscripts and Archives). Astor1
- UCL Library Services1
- University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections2
- Wellcome Library1
- Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives1
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