From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 114
Summary:
Sends capsules with results from Genlisea specimens and fragments of Polypompholyx.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 241–2
Summary:
Has gone over Huxley’s letter, thinks it a model. All must now await developments. If Mivart does not apologise, JDH will write to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 23
Summary:
Would like to know the results of CD’s Utricularia experiments.
A Brazilian love-bird, escaped from captivity, has been found in a robin’s nest, apparently starved to death along with three young robins.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 106: C17–18
Summary:
JT had not known Lady Lubbock was ill. Will try to persuade her [to change physicians]. Agrees Andrew Clark is best.
Hooker has survived his crisis [death of his wife].
St G. J. Mivart’s act is a natural outflow of his character.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 243–4
Summary:
Explains that his letter had to do with how he should act publicly to Mivart if he retracted. He would not forgive him. If he does not retract, it would no longer be possible to keep him Secretary of the Linnean Society.
Drosophyllum will be sent when weather permits.
Contributor:
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