From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 369–71
Summary:
Hopes JDH will beat Sir Douglas Galton.
Continues to work on insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 129
Summary:
Wants references to facts quoted in Variation for an essay he is writing on origin of British cattle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 9–10
Summary:
JDH wins over Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox on assistant secretary for himself.
Has called on Murray and told him Quarterly Review had disgraced itself by attacking George and CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 372–3
Summary:
Astonished at JDH’s success versus Galton
and his attack on Murray is superb. Has written a formal letter to Mivart enumerating his offences.
Contributor:
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From:
Albert George Dew-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 174
Summary:
Sends a letter from Anton Dohrn, which, if CD approves, will be printed with a list of all donors to the Naples Zoological Station. AGD-S has just returned from a visit to the Station and gives an account of its status. German government has made a grant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 338
Summary:
Agrees with CD on vivisection. Will communicate with Burdon Sanderson and see what can be done.
Mivart’s wriggle.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 342
Summary:
Writes on behalf of Royal Society Polar Committee for suggestions concerning instructions to naturalists on new expedition.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A48–53
Summary:
Sends suggestions for observations on glacial phenomena that might be made on the [Polar] expedition [of H. M. S. Alert and Discovery, 1875–6].
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 203
Summary:
Does CD think it desirable for EBT’s wife to produce a new English translation of A. E. Brehm’s work [Illustrirtes Thierleben (1864–7)]?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Brownen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 336
Summary:
Suspects a plant he has found, Hyoscyamus niger, is insectivorous. Its hairs in water caused dissolution of egg-white.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 215/1
Summary:
Account of the fund to help Anton Dohrn’s zoological station at Naples.
Contributor:
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From:
August Wilhelm Malm
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 32
Summary:
Sends his paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project