From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
18 Sept [1875-9]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 277
Summary:
Working on plant physiology; has not strength to discuss difficult subject with anyone.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Eeles Dresser
Date:
[10 Sept 1875]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Hopes to meet Dresser and his guest, N. A. Severtsov, on returning to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Jan [1875-82]
Source of text:
Romero de Tejada 1982, p. 150; Museo Nacional de Etnología [now Antropología], Madrid
Summary:
[Provides directions for travel to Down by train.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Feb [1875-82]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 124
Summary:
Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Edwards
Date:
[after 26 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
Parke-Bernet (dealers) (24 September 1963)
Summary:
Thanks for sending "wonderful speciment of Darlingtonia".
"I will not forget your obliging offer of giving me information with respect to California about which I may be curious."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1875 or later?]
Source of text:
CUL, Darwin Pamphlet Collection R112
Summary:
Asks FD to make out [Hermann] Hoffmann’s conclusions about the fertilisation of Phaseolus multiflorus [in Untersuchungen zur Bestimmung des Werthes von Species und Varietät (1869)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 8
Summary:
Begs FD’s pardon: his notes on Utricularia amethystina are on same page with those on U. nelumbifolia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Keylock Rusden
Date:
[before 27 Mar 1875]
Source of text:
Ovens and Murray Advertiser , 27 March 1875, p. 5
Summary:
Thanks for copy of lecture (Rusden 1874: Selection, natural and artificial, a lecture delivered in the Wangaratta Athenaeum by Mr. H. K. Rusden on Monday, October 26th, 1874) and essay (Rusden 1872: The treatment of criminals in relation to science, an essay read before the Royal Society of Victoria).
Comments on the essay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Feb 1875 or earlier?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) catalogue p. 192 (20 July 1989)
Summary:
Reports that Variation is out of print. Suggests means of obtaining a copy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after 17 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 31)
Summary:
CD is obliged for a note he will use for a new [2d] edition of Variation [1875].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
1 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 185: 97
Summary:
Asks whether he might copy two of FJC’s drawings of Aldrovanda. He would like to have a proof of the plate for two woodcuts to be used in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
1 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/5)
Summary:
Returning the plants DO had sent him from Kew
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavius March
Date:
[1875]
Source of text:
March 1883 , p. 23
Summary:
His opinion of the couvade.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 363–4
Summary:
Has not heard from Mivart; CD is convinced he is a hypocrite.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
4 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 36
Summary:
Describes his views on vivisection. Cannot sign petition of F. P. Cobbe, with its attack on Rudolf Virchow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
5 Jan 1875
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:
CD would be pleased to have FBG’s essay dedicated to him but fears that he will be unable to give any assistance towards FBG’s ‘excellent scheme’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Max Müller
Date:
5 Jan 1875
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 89, October 2002)
Summary:
Has read FMM’s article in Contemporary Review [25 (1875): 305–26].
Never suspected FMM was responsible for the Quarterly Review article ["Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77]; knows it was written by Mivart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
6 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD’s observations [for Insectivorous plants] seem to indicate that the same species of Genlisea may bear two kinds of bladders, so he asks for rhizomes and leaves of three species to test this possibility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
6 Jan 1875
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 313)
Summary:
Thanks THH for his article in the Academy and his defence of CD and G. H. Darwin against Mivart. Still thinks he should write plainly to Mivart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 365–6
Summary:
Is not inclined to restrain himself from expressing his opinion of Mivart. Huxley’s article in Academy.
Contributor:
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