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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 8
Summary:

Begs FD’s pardon: his notes on Utricularia amethystina are on same page with those on U. nelumbifolia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 181
Summary:

At work on new editions of his books against CD’s theory [La teoria dell’uomo-scimmia (1864); La théorie darwinienne (1874)]. Had hoped to receive CD’s comments, as earlier promised; they would still be useful.

Contributor:
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From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: A94
Summary:

Statement of U. S. sales of Origin, Expression, and Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav Jäger
Date:
3 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection)
Summary:

Comments on GJ’s book [In Sachen Darwins ins-besondere contra Wigand (1874)]. Not convinced that there are species which are fixed or variable independently of the conditions to which they are subjected.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Anton Bachmaier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 10
Summary:

Asks for information about alleged regeneration of amputated human fingers and toes. Mentions observations on regeneration of salamander extremities.

Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 99
Summary:

New [3d] German edition of Descent will soon be out.

Will begin translating Journal of researches, which will be first volume of CD’s collected works.

JVC has proposed bringing out all CD’s botanical papers in one or two volumes.

Errata in Descent enclosed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 256
Summary:

Has been appointed to a Keepership at British Museum.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
7 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 131–132)
Summary:

Thanks JVC for errata [in Descent, 2d ed.].

Discusses work in progress and publication plans.

Will be pleased to receive concluding volume of JVC’s Zoologie [see 8531].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 215
Summary:

Thanks to CD’s help Zoological Station has passed a crisis and is now flourishing.

Is writing pamphlet on "the origin of vertebrates and the principle of succession of functions" [see 9991 and 10003]. It is likely CD will not be pleased with it, but he thinks he must now, after seven years, bring it out. Seeks to open the way for a new series of theoretical questions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 11–13
Summary:

Has met Capt. George Strong Nares of the Challenger expedition at Huxley’s.

Huxley much at a loss to explain red clay at deep sea-bottom.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
[after 7 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 1120)
Summary:

The Zoological Station has already resulted in "capital work" by F. M. Balfour and Ray Lankester. G. J. Romanes is coming next year.

CD will be interested in AD’s ancestry of vertebrates. "I shall be very sorry to give up the ascidians."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Warner Clark
Date:
9 Feb 1875
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:

Thanks for information about effect of fear on the iris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
9 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Rejoices at AG’s "honourable & important" position [Keeper of the Zoological Department, British Museum].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Thomas Knowles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney family papers (MS 555) Box 22, folder 584 1875 Feb. 8-11)
Summary:

Assures CD that space will be reserved in the April Contemporary Review for W. D. Whitney’s article and solicits an introductory section from C.D.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Feb 1875
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-21)
Summary:

Has been experimenting with phosphates on Drosera and wonders whether animals digest a particular one.

Asks whether Huxley has approached him regarding the introduction of a vivisection act.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
10 [Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 44
Summary:

J. T. Knowles [editor of Contemp. Rev.] hopes W. D. Whitney’s article will be a long one.

CD is sorry about GHD’s account of his low spirits. "I know well the feeling of life being objectless & all being vanity of vanities."

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 374–6
Summary:

Is provoked by trouble he is having writing Insectivorous plants.

Curious case of an unknown form of Glaucium in earth covered with slag for 1400 years.

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From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 177
Summary:

Structure of Utricularia; its resemblance to an animal vascular system.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1875
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-39)
Summary:

Discusses the experiments with phosphates on Drosera and animals.

Considers the question of preparing a petition on the question of animal experiments, with the aim of promoting rather than hindering science. [Response to 9849.]

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