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DCP-LETT-10305F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
18 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/5/11)
Summary:

Returns agreement signed and witnessed.

Will discuss with CD at Christmas the possibility of purchasing some land with delapidated housing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10305

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
18 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/21)
Summary:

Mentions revisions [in Variation, 2d ed.].

Argues with FG’s theory of heredity, defending Pangenesis: "I cannot doubt that every unit of the hybrid is hybridised and sends forth hybridised gemmules."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
18 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 3009 C f.11)
Summary:

E. Ray Lankester blackballed by Linnean Society. Another election planned. Would JJW use his influence in Lankester’s favour?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0994

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
19 December [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 3.11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10309

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A92–3
Summary:

Outlines in simple form the statistical distribution of inherited characteristics in a theory of "organic units".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[19 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 52–5)
Summary:

CD’s attempts to get support for Lankester among Fellows of the Linnean Society. He has encountered opposition to the Council.

Contributor:
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FL-1049

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
20 December [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.39
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10311

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
20 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (20 December 1875), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:

Sends some money on behalf of himself and his father to help with FEA’s problems with the Index.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10312F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
Date:
20 Dec 1875
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008)
Summary:

Encloses S. C. Malan’s letter which WRSR need not return. The letter in Georgian is so foolish he will not reply.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10310

From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1875
Source of text:
CUL Manuscripts Department Add 7656: D71
Summary:

Notifies CD that information he [GGS] gave before on colours of peacock’s feathers was wrong [see 5891 et seq.] and refers CD to H. C. Sorby, who has worked on the subject.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10312

From:
Joseph Parrish Thompson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 111
Summary:

Sends CD an address [missing] on Lucretius and St Paul.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Kotte Autographs (dealers) (2012) (letter); Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 70) (copy of letter and original of enclosure)
Summary:

Encloses a correction [for Climbing plants, 2d ed.]. Asa Gray made a mistake in name of species of Passiflora.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10315

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B6–7
Summary:

Sends list of misprints in first edition of Insectivorous plants for the German collected works.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10314

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
21 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 23, folder 631 1875 Dec. 18-24)
Summary:

Müller has sent Chips [from a German workshop (1867–75)] and a boring defence against WDW’s attack. GHD feels he is maligned for using the weight of CD’s name in his Contemporary Review article. CD says Müller has misinterpreted a letter from CD as supporting him in his controversy with WDW.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 143: 348
Summary:

Thanks for 5th volume of the West Riding Asylum Medical Reports.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10317

From:
Francis Galton
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A94–5
Summary:

Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.

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DCP-LETT-10212

From:
Louis Grenier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 475
Summary:

Asks permission to make a résumé of Insectivorous plants for Société Botanique de Lyon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10211

From:
Louis Grenier
To:
John Murray
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 474
Summary:

Encloses a letter to be forwarded to CD [see 10212].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10318

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 168
Summary:

Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 7656: D72)
Summary:

CD is curious about the feathers but will wait to see whether H. C. Sorby’s paper appears.

Contributor:
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