From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 42–3
Summary:
Comments on Hermann Müller’s article on the structure of Gunnera flowers.
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 20
Summary:
Thanks CD for consenting to present his paper.
Contributor:
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C19
Summary:
Asks whether he may send two or three other tubes [of boiled infusions] to be placed in the open and observed for him.
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From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 305
Summary:
Is glad CD is working on cross- and self-fertilisation; reports recent works of botanists, notably Thomas Meehan’s ["Are insects any material aid to plants in fertilisation?", Philadelphia Press 13 Aug 1875], in which the importance of cross-fertilisation is denied.
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From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 37
Summary:
Has heard that 2d ed. of Variation is out. If CD will send it to him, he will complete the Italian translation in a short time.
His translation of Expression is nearly finished [published in 1878],
and the 2d ed. of Origin is almost entirely published.
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From:
Gustavus Fritsche
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 217
Summary:
About a Polish edition of Variation.
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 476
Summary:
Stereotype plates of Climbing plants sent to D. Appleton’s agent.
A revised edition of Orchids would be desirable.
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From:
George Wilkinson Morehouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 237
Summary:
Has found a spiral fibre in Drosera rotundifolia leaves which resembles animal muscle but is probably a modified ordinary plant fibre.
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 49
Summary:
Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.
Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".
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From:
James Jameson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 44
Summary:
Report, from a reader of Expression, of a Negro boy’s monkey-like screams while having fractured femur adjusted without chloroform.
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From:
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 48
Summary:
CD is asked to testify before a Royal Commission on experiments on living animals.
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 351, DAR 166: 343
Summary:
Encloses an invitation to give evidence to Vivisection Commission. Satisfied with way things were going, but E. E. Klein’s evidence that he is utterly indifferent to pain of animals has done great mischief.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 344
Summary:
Arrangements for CD’s appearance before Vivisection Commission.
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A83–A86
Summary:
Outlines a memoir he will give at the Anthropological Society in which he differs theoretically with Pangenesis.
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 50
Summary:
Personal news – is unwell.
Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A87
Summary:
Sends a proof of his "Theory of heredity" from the Contemporary Review [27 (1875): 80–95; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 329–48]. Welcomes CD’s help and criticism.
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 21
Summary:
Composition of "Droserin" [see 10015].
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 65
Summary:
Thanks CD for Climbing plants and Insectivorous plants.
Discusses his research on phylogeny. Results described in "Die Gastrula und die Eifurchung der Tiere" [Jena. Z. Naturw. 9 (1875): 402–508].
Describes newly discovered coral.
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: B123
Summary:
Thanks for Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Is reading proofs [of Geographical distribution (1876)].
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From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 180: 19
Summary:
Thanks for 2d edition of Climbing plants and for CD’s recognition of HdeV’s two essays on the subject [Climbing plants, pp. v–vi, 9 n., 22, 160]. Cause of spiral growth of tendrils.
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