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DCP-LETT-10312F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
Date:
20 Dec 1875
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008)
Summary:

Encloses S. C. Malan’s letter which WRSR need not return. The letter in Georgian is so foolish he will not reply.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Kotte Autographs (dealers) (2012) (letter); Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 70) (copy of letter and original of enclosure)
Summary:

Encloses a correction [for Climbing plants, 2d ed.]. Asa Gray made a mistake in name of species of Passiflora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 7656: D72)
Summary:

CD is curious about the feathers but will wait to see whether H. C. Sorby’s paper appears.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 143: 348
Summary:

Thanks for 5th volume of the West Riding Asylum Medical Reports.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10320

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Sully
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (MS ADD 158/1-6/1)
Summary:

Thanks JS for Sensation and intuition [1874]. Regrets that it was not published earlier, so he could have profited by some of the discussions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/6) Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
Summary:

Thanks for FdeC’s work [Lectures on state medicine (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 272
Summary:

E. R. Lankester has been unfairly blackballed at the Linnean Society. He is to be proposed for a second time, with CD seconding the proposal. Urges ARW to attend the ballot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
25 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 137–138)
Summary:

Thanks for errata in Insectivorous plants.

Sends spare copies of his papers, but thinks several are not worth publishing.

Has only one copy, which he will lend JVC, of the best one, on "Erratic boulders of South America" [Collected papers 1: 145–63].

Has not sent "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137], as he is sure he was wrong.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10325

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.482)
Summary:

Sends books.

Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.483)
Summary:

Encloses list of errata in Insectivorous plants [1875] for the French translator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/20)
Summary:

Is glad ARW will attend to vote for Lankester [at the Linnean Society].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10331G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
Date:
29 Dec 1875
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 88953/4)
Summary:

Has signed John Wesley Judd’s certificate.

Hopes his wife, Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne, will not forget about the meeting at the Linnean Society on 3 February; feels E. R. Lankester’s case is very cruel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13826

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:
26 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Bonhams, New York (dealers), 4 December 2019, lot 18)
Summary:

Sends Charles Lyell’s letters. Those from 1862–9 are so heavy that they have to be put in two parcels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9216

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
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