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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
1 December [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 3.9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 131
Summary:
Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 399–400
Summary:
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)
Summary:
Abstract sent to the Royal Society. It seems to CD "uncommonly clear and well-done".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
December 1875
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 193-195]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 45–8
Summary:
E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 176: 5
Summary:
CD’s letter from Tiflis is not in Russian but Georgian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 33
Summary:
Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 176: 6
Summary:
S. C. Malan, Rector of Broadwindsor, could translate Georgian letter from Tiflis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Carlyle
Date:
4 Dec 1875
Source of text:
National Trust (Carlyle’s House)
Summary:
A letter of congratulation to Thomas Carlyle on his 80th birthday signed by CD and 118 others; to accompany the gift of a commemorative medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Quintino Sella
Date:
4 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Fondazione Sella – Biella (archivio: carte di Quintino Sella, serie Accademia dei Lincei, m. 6, f. 20, s.f. Charles Darwin)
Summary:
Acknowledges QS’s letter [10280f] and the diploma of the Accademia dei Lincei.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[5 December 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 58
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
6 December 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.38
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
6 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 345
Summary:
Comments on AW’s essay [on "Axolotl", Z. Wiss. Zool. 25 (suppl.) (1875): 297–342] with respect to evolutionary reversion. Peloric flowers must also be considered reversion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
7 December [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 3.10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Haslemere Educational Museum (LD-8-885-P351)
Summary:
Asks for CD to add his name to James Croll’s application to the Royal Society of London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
Date:
7 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Bradford Galleries (dealers) (1992)
Summary:
Snow has caused postponement of trip to London. Will inform WR when he arrives.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 29
Summary:
Sends Linnean papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 64
Summary:
He will repeat his experiments on the cat’s sense of smell.
The intelligence of rats is shown by their gnawing through lead pipes to find water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Wentworth Dilke
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 December 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 321-322
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project