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From:
William Crookes
To:
Robert Cooper
Date:
8 November 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 118
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
8 November 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.36
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A88–9
Summary:
Responds to suggestions and criticisms CD made to "theory of heredity" [see 10245].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Secretary of the Royal Commission on vivisection
Date:
8 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C3
Summary:
CD sends a draft bill which he helped to prepare relating to experiments on live animals; the Commissioners may wish to see it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
9 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 322–3)
Summary:
Climbing plants has sold better than he expected.
Thinks another 1000 of Origin may have to be printed; he has no corrections to make.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
9 November 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.37
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Patrick Proctor ("Pat") Alexander
Date:
9 November 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 270.1: 6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 10 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 62
Summary:
Discusses his ambitions.
Writes of rats that gnaw through lead pipes to find water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[before 10 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
Nature , 20 February 1879, p. 365
Summary:
Does not doubt animals reason in a practical fashion. Do not the rats hear the water trickling?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
10 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/20)
Summary:
Comments on FG’s paper ["The history of twins"].
CD is "in a passion with the Spectator who always muddles".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 63
Summary:
Apologises for troubling CD to look for his lost MS.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
10 Nov 1875
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 2)
Summary:
Suggests that, if HdV make further observations on tendrils, he attend to Echinocystis, as described on p. 132 of Climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
12 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 324)
Summary:
Thanks for Elementary biology [1875]. Wishes he had had a course like it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Crookes
To:
EJ Collings
Date:
13 November 1875
Source of text:
MM/21/66, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[13 or 20 November 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 128
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
13 Nov 1875
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/34 [9887])
Summary:
Mentions receipt of EH’s History of creation [1876].
Describes his own work on cross- and self-fertilised flowers. Subject bears on the very principle of life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 123
Summary:
Gives an example of the power of reasoning shown by dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
13 Nov 1875
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/111)
Summary:
CD cannot remember whether he was on the committee of the Jamaica affair [for prosecution of Governor Eyre in 1866] but he subscribed £10.
It is curious and amusing how positivists hate all men of science, possibly because their prophet [Comte] made laughable and gigantic blunders in predicting the course of science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 November 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 361
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
13 November 1875
Source of text:
Senate House Library, University of London: MS 791/112
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project