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DCP-LETT-9832

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
[28 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254 ff. 81–2)
Summary:

The review of EBT’s book ["Primitive Man: Tylor and Lubbock"] in the Quarterly Review [137: 40–77] last year contained a false and malicious attack on CD’s son George. CD knows it was written by St George Mivart. CD wishes to take every opportunity to say how false a man he considers him to be.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13889B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Feb [1875-82]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 124
Summary:

Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9905F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Pennington Thomasson
Date:
30 Mar 1875
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8876(i))
Summary:

Seems to be in error about the nests of the two flycatchers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9924

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:
[24 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373)
Summary:

On the petition by scientists regarding vivisection and plans for presenting it in Parliament.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9946

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:
24 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373)
Summary:

Sir John Lubbock’s advice on draft of petition on vivisection. Agrees with Lubbock’s opinion that a bill would be more effective – but the more the subject is stirred up, the better.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9968

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 May [1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49644: 79–80)
Summary:

Arrangements to meet a Duke [unidentified] at High Elms [Lubbock residence].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10136F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thereza Mary Llewelyn; Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne
Date:
27 Aug [1875-81]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 88953/4)
Summary:

Explains that the plant is not consuming the flies, but that they die becasue they get stuck in the flowers when fertilising them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
18 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 3009 C f.11)
Summary:

E. Ray Lankester blackballed by Linnean Society. Another election planned. Would JJW use his influence in Lankester’s favour?

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
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