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DCP-LETT-9750F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Carl Noll
Date:
8 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (Historische Sammlungen EH 112)
Summary:

Thanks for the essay on a curious new cirripede. He will not accept the offer of microscopical preparations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9751

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[9 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.454)
Summary:

Invites GJR to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2309

From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 December 1874
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 286-287
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9724F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[9 Dec] 1874 or [14 Dec] 1875 or [10 Jan] 1877
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 76, 1994)
Summary:

Invites correspondent to luncheon on Friday or Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-74-12-10

From:
Redmond Barry
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 December 1874
Source of text:
Unit 2, pp. 360-1, VPRS 830/P outward letter book, VA 2549 Supreme Court 1869-75, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9752

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 103
Summary:

Sends French translation of Journal of researches and will send the £20 due to CD when 750 copies have been sold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4035

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
10 December 1874
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/98
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3774

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Clifton Sorby
Date:
10 December 1874
Source of text:
Sheffield Archives: SLPS/51/634
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9753

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 187
Summary:

Cannot help with Pinguicula or Utricularia. Mrs Mary Treat is studying Utricularia.

Forwards his short piece on duration of varieties [New York Tribune 8 Dec 1874; Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 9 (1875): 109–14].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9754

From:
Francis Eugene Nipher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 172: 70
Summary:

Cites more examples of inheritance of maternal impressions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9221

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
12 [Dec 1874 - Jan 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 43
Summary:

Regrets the trouble GHD has had.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9755

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer
Date:
12 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for work on Lacerta muralis coerulea [Zoologische Studien auf Capri 2 (1874)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9752A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
[12 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 1
Summary:

Thanks for translation of his Journal of researches. Is pleased by its appearance.

Also thank Edmond Barbier for his kind words. [See 9752.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1820

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Eeles Dresser
Date:
12 December 1874
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester: English Manuscript 1404
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9756

From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 194
Summary:

Describes his university lectures on evolution and their publication in a book [Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9757

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 350–1, DAR 97: C73
Summary:

Thanks JDH for his and Huxley’s countering of the false attack on George [Darwin] by Mivart. Encloses a note to Mivart on which he asks JDH’s opinion.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9758

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Dec 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 342–3)
Summary:

Sends a suggested title [for Insectivorous plants?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0975

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
15 December [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-74-12-15

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 December 1874
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Garden Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9760

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
15 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (Rathbone XXI.12.3: 4)
Summary:

Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.

Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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