From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 63
Summary:
Apologises for troubling CD to look for his lost MS.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 123
Summary:
Gives an example of the power of reasoning shown by dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 477
Summary:
Electrotypes of woodcuts in Climbing plants [2d ed.]
and Variation [2d ed.] for Appleton.
Asks CD whether he has any corrections for Insectivorous plants before stereotypes are made.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 22
Summary:
Has CD ever come across Dischidia rafflesiana?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 23
Summary:
Has extracted a highly deliquescent substance from digestive secretion of insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 180: 20
Summary:
Hopes to continue study of climbing plants next summer and to observe facts mentioned in CD’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.11: 3
Summary:
Report on sales of Origin, Insectivorous plants, and Climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 102
Summary:
Queries concerned with his translation of Insectivorous plants, which has been delayed by illness but is now two-thirds done.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 24
Summary:
His paper [for Royal Society] is completed; would CD like to read it?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 478
Summary:
Sends cheques in payment on three of CD’s books.
Proposes to print 500 copies of Insectivorous plants before distributing the type.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: 97
Summary:
Can cut the electros from the plates of the illustrations for the new edition of Variation if they are the same as in the first edition.
Has received plates for Climbing plants and will print immediately.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 479
Summary:
JM has printed 16250 copies of Origin since 1859.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 26
Summary:
RLT’s paper will be sent to CD. Will CD notify him of any serious defects?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 44
Summary:
JDH concerned about preparations for [his address at] Royal Society [anniversary] meeting [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 72–94].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 25
Summary:
RLT’s paper on insectivorous plants is being copied.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A90–1
Summary:
Thanks for the peas which arrived in "beautiful order".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Quintino Sella; Accademia dei Lincei
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 229: 43, DAR 230: 44
Summary:
Letter enclosing decree from the Accademia dei Lincei, with signatures dated 2 and 16 July 1875.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 27
Summary:
RLT’s insectivorous plants paper.
The success of a recent lecture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 49–50
Summary:
JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 131
Summary:
Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project