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DCP-LETT-10196

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 48
Summary:

Pleased by W. Stanley Jevons’ letter.

Has ordered Dr Cohn’s book.

Is sure that GHD’s energy will lead to success with work on viscous fluids.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10200

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 394–6
Summary:

Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.

Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.

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DCP-LETT-10201

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Max Müller
Date:
15 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 427
Summary:

Thanks FMM for his essay [see 10194]. Though some of FMM’s remarks are "stinging", they have all been made "gracefully".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10209

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 397–8
Summary:

Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1022

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 71
Summary:

Will JDH be in London?

Cirripede observations.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10222

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 23 (EH 88205961)
Summary:

Asks JT to send the tubes [of boiled infusions]. Frank Darwin will do his best. Asks for full instructions.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10223

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[25 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 49
Summary:

Asks that a copy of GHD’s paper on cousin marriage be sent to Hermann Müller. J. F. McLennan admires it "as a model".

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DCP-LETT-10228

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
26 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 146: 436
Summary:

On HM’s Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10232

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
Date:
29 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C4–6
Summary:

CD would feel bound to give evidence to the Royal Commission on vivisection should they ask him, but he has no personal experience of the matter. Expresses his opinions on the importance to physiology of experiments on live animals.

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DCP-LETT-1024

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[14 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 72
Summary:

Proposes to visit Kew.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1025

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 73
Summary:

Will come to Kew on Friday.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10251

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Secretary of the Royal Commission on vivisection
Date:
8 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C3
Summary:

CD sends a draft bill which he helped to prepare relating to experiments on live animals; the Commissioners may wish to see it.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10260F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Scott
Date:
16 Nov [1875?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.10409)
Summary:

Thanks for a ‘very remarkable & trustworthy case of reason in the dog’.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 74
Summary:

CD’s visit to Kew.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10280

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
27 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 30
Summary:

Because CD has been unwell, he has not read RLT’s paper carefully, but it seems an important contribution to science. Hopes RLT’s chemical observations will be confirmed. It seems a great anomaly that two substances with an acid should be requisite for digestion.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10283

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 399–400
Summary:

Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.

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DCP-LETT-10289

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
6 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 345
Summary:

Comments on AW’s essay [on "Axolotl", Z. Wiss. Zool. 25 (suppl.) (1875): 297–342] with respect to evolutionary reversion. Peloric flowers must also be considered reversion.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1029

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
[22 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A1–A2
Summary:

Concerned about Father’s health.

Forwards a letter from FitzRoy.

Dr Erasmus Darwin’s scientific prophecies are the talk of London.

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DCP-LETT-10295

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 401–2
Summary:

CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10296

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after 11 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C1–2
Summary:

Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.

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