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WCP3100

From:
William Cutter
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 December 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4107

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 December 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 148: 272
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/6) Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
Summary:

Thanks for FdeC’s work [Lectures on state medicine (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10320

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Sully
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (MS ADD 158/1-6/1)
Summary:

Thanks JS for Sensation and intuition [1874]. Regrets that it was not published earlier, so he could have profited by some of the discussions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 272
Summary:

E. R. Lankester has been unfairly blackballed at the Linnean Society. He is to be proposed for a second time, with CD seconding the proposal. Urges ARW to attend the ballot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10732

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

News of the parish and neighbours.

CD pleased JBI is interested in his book [Cross and self-fertilisation].

He is pretty well and hard at work with Francis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3101

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Cutter
Date:
24 December 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 42
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
25 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 137–138)
Summary:

Thanks for errata in Insectivorous plants.

Sends spare copies of his papers, but thinks several are not worth publishing.

Has only one copy, which he will lend JVC, of the best one, on "Erratic boulders of South America" [Collected papers 1: 145–63].

Has not sent "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137], as he is sure he was wrong.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-75-12-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
25 December 1875
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 170-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10324

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Nature , 17 February 1876, pp. 304–5
Summary:

"Sambaquis", or shell mounds accumulated by former inhabitants of the coast, contain shells of some animals that FM has never seen living.

Ants that live on imbauba trees (Cecropia) are attracted by small bodies at base of each petiole.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10307

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 46
Summary:

Asks to borrow Ernst Haeckel’s Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen (1865) [and Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren (1869)].

Has not been neglecting Pangenesis for Medusae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0995

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
26 December [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 3.12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10328

From:
Henry Edwards
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 163: 3
Summary:

Sends his paper on an American pitcher-plant [Darlingtonia californica].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13826

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:
26 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Bonhams, New York (dealers), 4 December 2019, lot 18)
Summary:

Sends Charles Lyell’s letters. Those from 1862–9 are so heavy that they have to be put in two parcels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8133

From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Dec 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 32
Summary:

Regrets having missed seeing CD when he was in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.483)
Summary:

Encloses list of errata in Insectivorous plants [1875] for the French translator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10325

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.482)
Summary:

Sends books.

Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10327

From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 262
Summary:

He is proposing [John Wesley] Judd for FRS and asks for CD’s support.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9216

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Edwards
Date:
[after 26 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
Parke-Bernet (dealers) (24 September 1963)
Summary:

Thanks for sending "wonderful speciment of Darlingtonia".

"I will not forget your obliging offer of giving me information with respect to California about which I may be curious."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP787

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 December 1875
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-395404
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 148: 273
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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