From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 303
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent, 2d ed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Oswald Heer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 130
Summary:
Comments on his Flora fossilis Arctica [vol. 3 (1875)]. Discusses successive appearance of plant families in geological periods. Relates plant development to rise of herbivorous mammals.
Comments on death of Charles Lyell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Moritz Traube
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 176
Summary:
Sends two treatises which explain cell-wall formation and some aspects of cell growth in physico-chemical terms ["Experimente zur Theorie d. Zellenbildung und Endosmose", Arch. Anat. Physiol. (1867): 87–128, 126–65].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moritz Traube
Date:
5 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Francis Storr Correspondence (Mss2304))
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for two essays.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Oswald Heer
Date:
8 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Nachlass Oswald Heer 213.2)
Summary:
Thanks OH for his book [see 9876]; agrees that the sudden appearance of many dicotyledons in the Upper Chalk is a perplexing phenomenon for the evolutionist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gould Anne Ruxton; Gould Anne Wolfe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 135
Summary:
CD’s Descent.
Fighting among beetles.
Similarity between dogs and men; intelligence of dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 5)
Summary:
No uniform edition of CD’s works has appeared in England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:
11 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Summary:
Thanks for publication [Berste bijdrage tot een nauwkeuriger kennis der sessile cirripedien (1875)]. Cannot read Dutch. Mentions PPCH’s research on cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 143
Summary:
Has found the relation of pollen-grain size to style size in Primula to be the opposite of CD’s view; asks whether there is an error or just remarkable variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 2
Summary:
Purpose of bushy tails; their usefulness to their owners as a means of keeping warm.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
[13–15 Mar 1875]
Source of text:
Birmingham Daily Post , 8 April 1875, p. 6
Summary:
Thinks CD is right about the retention of a tail.
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:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 130
Summary:
Is glad CD is pleased with his book [Cave hunting (1874)].
Relationship between language and race. The Basques.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Fiske
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 126
Summary:
Thanks CD for Descent
and for his praise of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin John Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 74
Summary:
Reports an Araujia in Portugal that captures various insects on the horns of its stigma. Relates this to another asclepiad, Apocynum, which also captures insects. Is this "insectivory" or insect fertilisation?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 3
Summary:
Uses of tails of mice. Functions of tails generally.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 20–1
Summary:
No action on assistance yet, but has had a private note from Disraeli asking whether Thiselton-Dyer is his recommendation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 4
Summary:
Sends a short essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] on which he would welcome CD’s opinion. Believes problems of pathology can be attacked by regarding them from "Darwinian" point of view.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 445
Summary:
A curious alteration in the reprint of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Tait, Lawson7
- Heer, Oswald3
- Hooker, J. D.2
- Johnston, E. J.2
- Piggot, Horatio2
- Thomasson, J. P.2
- Traube, Moritz2
- Bachmaier, Anton1
- Balfour, F. M.1
- Belt, Thomas1
- Bennett, A. W.1
- Burgess, Thomas1
- Cooke, R. F.1
- Cupples, George1
- Dawkins, W. B.1
- Fiske, John1
- Hoek, P. P. C.1
- John Murray1
- Masters, M. T.1
- Modderman, A. E. J.1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Rusden, H. K.1
- Ruxton, G. A.1
- Unidentified1
- Wolfe, G. A.1
- Wright, Chauncey1