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DCP-LETT-9761

From:
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 118
Summary:

Awakened by a mouse scratching at night, he mewed like a cat and the mouse disappeared.

Sending a group of stuffed sparrows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5679

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
15 December 1874
Source of text:
McGill University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9762

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.455)
Summary:

Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].

Discusses breeding and sterility.

Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.

Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC376

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 December 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.24, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to arrange a time he & Thiselton-Dyer can confer regarding the [proposed Jodrell?] laboratory.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9763

From:
George King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 111
Summary:

Sends three specimens of Aldrovanda verticillata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9763F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/4)
Summary:

Asks four favours: sort out confusion about the name Byblis gigantea or grandiflora; can he see dried specimens of Genlisea ornata; is there a more recent list of Drosera spp. than Steudel 1841; are there at Kew any dried specimens of Utricularia montana collected from the plant’s native haunts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9764

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 72
Summary:

Bishop J. W. Colenso supports his old contention that the Kaffirs (including Zulus of South Africa) are Negroes.

[Horace Waller’s] The last journals of David Livingstone [in central Africa (1874)] cites CD’s plant research and has many facts "for Darwin".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0758

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[19 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 119
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9765

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 112–13
Summary:

Sends Utricularia montana and Byblis species.

Drosera census numbers 100 species.

Genlisea distinguished from Utricularia.

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DCP-LETT-9765F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Sidgwick
Date:
19 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Thanks for his Methods of ethics [1874].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5678

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
19 December 1874
Source of text:
  • McGill University
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 42181 ff. 71-72
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9767

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 63
Summary:

Discusses his Anthropogenie [1874]. Remarks on the tables.

Has CD received Friedrich von Hellwald’s Culturgeschichte [1875]?

Plans research trip to the Mediterranean.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9766

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 352–3
Summary:

Asks JDH to help G. J. Romanes, who wishes to try Pangenesis experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1459

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
20 December 1874
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1642
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9767F

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 145: 368
Summary:

Is writing confidentially not to justify the passage referred to [see 9759], which he much regrets, but to state facts. He never intended any personal hostility to [George] Darwin and seeks advice about how to make reparation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9768

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 236–8; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Dawson 2.214)
Summary:

His view of Huxley’s cutting Mivart without explanation. States his own intentions. Mivart’s apology in October Quarterly Review is abominable.

Has heard of a Drosophyllum in Edinburgh. Is it too late?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1036

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
22 December [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.26
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9770

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 354–5
Summary:

Expresses his gratitude to JDH and Huxley in the Mivart affair. Thinks he should write directly to Mivart, if Mivart does not retract.

Would be glad to have another Drosophyllum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9771

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 239–40
Summary:

Will help Romanes. Offers Kew’s facilities for experiments. Is writing to the Board [of Works?] about a physiological laboratory, which Sir Philip Joddrell has offered to build. Thinks Government should support original research like Romanes’.

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DCP-LETT-9769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 273
Summary:

Thanks THH and Hooker for defending George Darwin against Mivart’s libel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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