From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 20
Summary:
Thanks CD for consenting to present his paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C19
Summary:
Asks whether he may send two or three other tubes [of boiled infusions] to be placed in the open and observed for him.
Contributor:
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From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 305
Summary:
Is glad CD is working on cross- and self-fertilisation; reports recent works of botanists, notably Thomas Meehan’s ["Are insects any material aid to plants in fertilisation?", Philadelphia Press 13 Aug 1875], in which the importance of cross-fertilisation is denied.
Contributor:
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From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 37
Summary:
Has heard that 2d ed. of Variation is out. If CD will send it to him, he will complete the Italian translation in a short time.
His translation of Expression is nearly finished [published in 1878],
and the 2d ed. of Origin is almost entirely published.
Contributor:
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From:
Gustavus Fritsche
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 217
Summary:
About a Polish edition of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 476
Summary:
Stereotype plates of Climbing plants sent to D. Appleton’s agent.
A revised edition of Orchids would be desirable.
Contributor:
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From:
George Wilkinson Morehouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 237
Summary:
Has found a spiral fibre in Drosera rotundifolia leaves which resembles animal muscle but is probably a modified ordinary plant fibre.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 49
Summary:
Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.
Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
26 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 37–8)
Summary:
Wants Imantophyllum for crossing experiments.
Is glad WTT-D thinks George King’s notes worth sending to the Linnean Society.
Contributor:
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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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From:
James Jameson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 44
Summary:
Report, from a reader of Expression, of a Negro boy’s monkey-like screams while having fractured femur adjusted without chloroform.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustavus Fritsche
Date:
27 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 13)
Summary:
Will send vol. 1 [of Variation, 2d ed.] as soon as complete so that correspondent can decide about the translation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 48
Summary:
CD is asked to testify before a Royal Commission on experiments on living animals.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
30 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of £2 8s 10d for 2d edition of Coral reefs.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 351, DAR 166: 343
Summary:
Encloses an invitation to give evidence to Vivisection Commission. Satisfied with way things were going, but E. E. Klein’s evidence that he is utterly indifferent to pain of animals has done great mischief.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 16 Oct 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 86: B18
Summary:
Comments on Insectivorous plants, p. 353 mentioning J. J. T. Schloesing’s experiments with carbonate of ammonia [see J. J. T. Schloesing, "Sur l’absorption de l’ammoniaque de l’air par les végétaux", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 78 (1874): 1700–3].
Contributor:
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From:
John Storer
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 343 (fragile)
Summary:
Does not believe CD should place too much faith in statements regarding the continuous interbreeding of the Chillingham cattle.
Contributor:
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