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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
7 Mar 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.464)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for article on CD in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
13 Mar 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.

Mentions notices in the Nation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.465)
Summary:

Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.

Invites GJR to visit.

"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 May 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.468)
Summary:

August Weismann is interested in JJW’s experiments on birds and the caterpillars they eat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
3 May 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.467)
Summary:

Thanks JP for volume of his lectures [Clinical lectures and essays, ed. H. Marsh (1875)].

Mentions "vivisection question".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
10 July 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.466); DAR 148: 336
Summary:

Regarding Cytisus graft with yellow flowers, CD thinks nurseryman has sold Cytisus adami to JJW’s brother in place of C. purpureus. This explains apparent "sport". [P.S. on envelope:] C. purpureus seeds freely. C. adami never does.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project