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DCP-LETT-10276

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
25 Nov 1875
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/35 [9888])
Summary:

Has read EH’s History of creation [trans. E. R. Lankester (1875)]. Was much struck with many "brilliant & original remarks". Is gratified by the way EH speaks of CD’s books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10279

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
27 Nov 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.480)
Summary:

Communicates a paper by Lawson Tait to the Royal Society [not published by Royal Society, see 10452].

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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10284

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)
Summary:

Abstract sent to the Royal Society. It seems to CD "uncommonly clear and well-done".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10288F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Quintino Sella
Date:
4 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Fondazione Sella – Biella (archivio: carte di Quintino Sella, serie Accademia dei Lincei, m. 6, f. 20, s.f. Charles Darwin)
Summary:

Acknowledges QS’s letter [10280f] and the diploma of the Accademia dei Lincei.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10288G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Carlyle
Date:
4 Dec 1875
Source of text:
National Trust (Carlyle’s House)
Summary:

A letter of congratulation to Thomas Carlyle on his 80th birthday signed by CD and 118 others; to accompany the gift of a commemorative medal.

Contributor:
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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-10289F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
Date:
7 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Bradford Galleries (dealers) (1992)
Summary:

Snow has caused postponement of trip to London. Will inform WR when he arrives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10291

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
9 Dec 1875
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen 524/12 Coll-74/11/12 1. 1)
Summary:

CD has signed James Croll’s certificate [of nomination to Royal Society] with real pleasure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10291F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger
Date:
9 Dec [1876]
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I)
Summary:

Thanks for a copy of the second edition of Strasburger’s Über Zellbildung und Zelltheilung (On cell formation and cell division; Strasburger 1876b).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10292

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 325)
Summary:

Is coming to London. Will call on THH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 36)
Summary:

Asks JDH to try to come to luncheon if he is in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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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DCP-LETT-10298

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[15 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 65 (EH 88206048)
Summary:

Ferdinand Cohn has already sent a copy of his article, [possibly: "Über die Function der Blasen von Aldrovanda und Utricularia", Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1870–5) pt 3: 71–89].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10299

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 50–1)
Summary:

Discusses blackballing of E. R. Lankester [at Linnean Society]. Reports on his attempts to persuade other Fellows to support Lankester’s election.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10300

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
16 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 87
Summary:

Arranges to visit AWB.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10301

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
17 [Dec 1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.481)
Summary:

Suggests skin-grafting experiment on birds.

Discusses case of Edwin Ray Lankester; it has aroused his indignation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
[17 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 88
Summary:

Declines invitation to breakfast.

Contributor:
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