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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 322)
Summary:

Astonished and disgusted at Klein’s evidence. No doubt there will be severe and vicious legislation against physiology. Will give evidence before Commission.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
2 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/17)
Summary:

Has heard that FG will write on inheritance. Huxley does not believe in E. G. Balbiani’s views on subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 344
Summary:

Arrangements for CD’s appearance before Vivisection Commission.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A83–A86
Summary:

Outlines a memoir he will give at the Anthropological Society in which he differs theoretically with Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Scott, C. P.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
3 November 1875
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1899
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 42–4
Summary:

Sends successful graft-hybrid of red and white carrot.

CD should correct passage in Variation explaining deformation of sternum in fowls [Variation, 2d ed., 1: 287–8].

Chapter in Variation on Pangenesis is admirable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
4 November 1875
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1871-76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/18)
Summary:

In London yesterday for Vivisection Commission.

Is revising his chapter on Pangenesis [in Variation, 2d ed.] to allow that gemmules probably multiply in the reproductive organs.

Notes examples of inheritance of acquired characteristics cited by Brown-Séquard.

Doubts that double parentage is necessary for complex organisations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[4 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.478)
Summary:

Mentions his appearance before Vivisection Commission.

Discusses his plans for planting and observing the carrots sent by GJR.

Mentions views of J. S. Burdon Sanderson on graft-hybrids.

Comments on GJR’s paper ["Instinct and acquisition", Nature 12 (1875): 553–4].

[Letter incorrectly dated "Thursday 8th" by CD.] [!? shd be note not synopsis]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
4 Nov 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.479)
Summary:

Carrots have arrived; CD has potted them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A87
Summary:

Sends a proof of his "Theory of heredity" from the Contemporary Review [27 (1875): 80–95; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 329–48]. Welcomes CD’s help and criticism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
6 November [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Lachlan Fraser
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 November 1875
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 21
Summary:

Composition of "Droserin" [see 10015].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/19)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s paper ["A theory of heredity"]. Finds essay difficult to understand. Objects that FG’s theory conflicts with phenomenon of use and disuse. Conflicts also with rarity of bud-variations in nature.

Says he has ordered FG’s article ["The history of twins", Fraser’s Mag. 92 (1875): 566–76; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 391–406].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 65
Summary:

Thanks CD for Climbing plants and Insectivorous plants.

Discusses his research on phylogeny. Results described in "Die Gastrula und die Eifurchung der Tiere" [Jena. Z. Naturw. 9 (1875): 402–508].

Describes newly discovered coral.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Scott, C. P.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
7 November 1875
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1900
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 180: 19
Summary:

Thanks for 2d edition of Climbing plants and for CD’s recognition of HdeV’s two essays on the subject [Climbing plants, pp. v–vi, 9 n., 22, 160]. Cause of spiral growth of tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: B123
Summary:

Thanks for Climbing plants [2d ed.].

Is reading proofs [of Geographical distribution (1876)].

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 November 1875
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B123
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 258
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 285]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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