From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 114
Summary:
Sends a copy of his book [The royal tiger of Bengal (1875)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[31 Aug 1875 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 13
Summary:
Sends proofs of Variation [2d ed.] for FD to look over.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 188
Summary:
Discusses deafness in white cats. Every blue-eyed, white cat WDF has known has been deaf.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 461
Summary:
Murray is willing to make same arrangement with D. Appleton for Climbing plants as for Insectivorous plants.
There will be no difficulty about corrections for reprint of Descent, providing new matter fills same space as old.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 462
Summary:
Giovanni Canestrini should be reminded that before any plates for another of CD’s books can be sent, payment must be made for those already sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 463
Summary:
Sends papers concerned with [copyright?] registration for French and German editions [of Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 464
Summary:
Encloses specimens of type for Variation [2d ed.].
Thinks Climbing plants [2d ed.] had better be kept in type; 1500 copies to be printed, with stereotypes to be made for Appleton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 240
Summary:
Has re-examined her sister’s extra finger. Reports her sister’s recollections regarding its regrowth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 465
Summary:
It would be an advantage to start printing vol. 1 of Variation [2d ed.] at once, if CD can release it. Knotty problem: the number of copies to be printed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 466
Summary:
The two volumes of Variation [2d ed.] are unequal in size. Can CD reduce vol. 2 and increase vol. 1?
Does CD wish to publish Climbing plants [2d ed.] at once?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 468
Summary:
Apologises for the annoyance caused about the size of proof paper. Clears up misunderstanding. As for Climbing plants, RC thinks no less than 1500 copies of a book by CD should be printed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alice Margaret Stanley; Alice Margaret Lane Fox; Alice Margaret Pitt-Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 171
Summary:
Hexadactyly. Regrowth of removed supernumerary digits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Cooke, R. F.7
- John Murray7
- Cohn, F. J.3
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Hooker, J. D.2
- Beneden, Édouard van1
- Butler, A. G.1
- Chambers, Annie1
- Clowes, E. A.1
- D. Appleton & Co1
- Darwin, Francis1
- Dowie, Annie1
- Fayrer, Joseph1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Hesse-Wartegg, Ernst von1
- Lane Fox, A. M.1
- Marshall, William1
- Müller, Hermann1
- Newington, Samuel1
- Paget, James1
- Pitt-Rivers, A. M.1
- Rolleston, George1
- Stanley, A. M.1
- Tait, Lawson1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Zacharias, Otto1