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From:
Litchfield?, H. E.
To:
?
Date:
[22 December 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
22 December 1874
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.24 (41)
Summary:
Discusses vivisection.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
23 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:
Thanks AD-P for sending his work, not yet received, on evolution [Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte (1875)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 356–7; DAR 166: 336
Summary:
Entirely sympathises with CD about Mivart’s attack on George. THH has had a letter from Mivart in which he pleads guilty, but THH has decided there is no patching the matter up. Advises against doing anything unless Mivart takes initiative.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
[23 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 336
Summary:
A severe letter of rebuke to Mivart for his attack on G. H. Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.456)
Summary:
Urges GJR to visit Hooker at Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
24 December 1874
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 358–9
Summary:
Encloses note from Huxley and copy of Huxley’s answer to Mivart – a tremendous reproof. On Huxley’s advice, CD will not write to Mivart. Thinks Mivart’s private apology to Huxley makes the case even worse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 311)
Summary:
THH’s letter to Mivart is "tremendous". CD’s feelings and intentions about the matter.
If THH has made out homology of the skull, it is grandest discovery in years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 145: 369
Summary:
A confidential letter explaining in detail the extent to which he regrets his attack upon [George] Darwin’s article.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
25 December 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 159
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
25 December 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 160
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (110)
Summary:
Read AG’s article [see 9753] on longevity and duration of varieties with great interest.
Death of Mrs Hooker.
Hopes Insectivorous plants will be out in the spring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
26 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/32)
Summary:
Comments on review of EH’s Anthropogenie [1874].
Mentions recent work of Huxley and other scientists.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
27 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:
Thanks AD-P for the copy of his work [see 9756].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 360–2
Summary:
Has not heard from Mivart. He is not so good a Christian as JDH and cannot forgive a man for malicious lying merely because he says he is sorry. Does not think Mivart will apologise. Still thinks the simple, most manly thing, is to write to Mivart directly and tell him what he thinks of him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.457)
Summary:
Discourages grafting ears of rabbits. Suggests comb of fowl.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project