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DCP-LETT-10223

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[25 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 49
Summary:

Asks that a copy of GHD’s paper on cousin marriage be sent to Hermann Müller. J. F. McLennan admires it "as a model".

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FVM-75-10-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
25 October 1875
Source of text:
H75/12406, unit 817, VPRS 3991/P, inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10225

From:
George Wilkinson Morehouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 237
Summary:

Has found a spiral fibre in Drosera rotundifolia leaves which resembles animal muscle but is probably a modified ordinary plant fibre.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10222

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 23 (EH 88205961)
Summary:

Asks JT to send the tubes [of boiled infusions]. Frank Darwin will do his best. Asks for full instructions.

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FL-1045

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
26 October 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10226

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 49
Summary:

Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.

Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".

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DCP-LETT-10229

From:
James Jameson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 44
Summary:

Report, from a reader of Expression, of a Negro boy’s monkey-like screams while having fractured femur adjusted without chloroform.

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FL-1464

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
26 October 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1647
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10228

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
26 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 146: 436
Summary:

On HM’s Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10227

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
26 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 37–8)
Summary:

Wants Imantophyllum for crossing experiments.

Is glad WTT-D thinks George King’s notes worth sending to the Linnean Society.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10230

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustavus Fritsche
Date:
27 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 13)
Summary:

Will send vol. 1 [of Variation, 2d ed.] as soon as complete so that correspondent can decide about the translation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3436

From:
David Wedderburn
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 October 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 116-117
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10231

From:
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 48
Summary:

CD is asked to testify before a Royal Commission on experiments on living animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10232

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
Date:
29 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C4–6
Summary:

CD would feel bound to give evidence to the Royal Commission on vivisection should they ask him, but he has no personal experience of the matter. Expresses his opinions on the importance to physiology of experiments on live animals.

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FVM-75-10-30

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
30 October 1875
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10234

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 351, DAR 166: 343
Summary:

Encloses an invitation to give evidence to Vivisection Commission. Satisfied with way things were going, but E. E. Klein’s evidence that he is utterly indifferent to pain of animals has done great mischief.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10233

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
30 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £2 8s 10d for 2d edition of Coral reefs.

Contributor:
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WCP6901

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Fletcher Barrett
Date:
30 October 1875
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: SPR. MS 3/A4/136
  • Cambridge University Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-1397

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
31 October 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 853
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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