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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:
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
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:
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)].

Contributor:
Darwin 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:
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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.

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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
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:
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
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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:
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:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 477
Summary:

Electrotypes of woodcuts in Climbing plants [2d ed.]

and Variation [2d ed.] for Appleton.

Asks CD whether he has any corrections for Insectivorous plants before stereotypes are made.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Scott
Date:
16 Nov [1875?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.10409)
Summary:

Thanks for a ‘very remarkable & trustworthy case of reason in the dog’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project