Search: letter in document-type 
1870-1879::1875::12 in date 
Sorted by:

Showing 8185 of 85 items

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 189
Summary:

AG’s notices of Insectivorous plants [Nation 22 (1876): 12–14, 30–2]

and Climbing plants [2d ed., Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 11 (1876): 69–74].

Use of flower peduncles for support in Maurandia. Transition from branches to tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/20)
Summary:

Is glad ARW will attend to vote for Lankester [at the Linnean Society].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
Date:
29 Dec 1875
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 88953/4)
Summary:

Has signed John Wesley Judd’s certificate.

Hopes his wife, Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne, will not forget about the meeting at the Linnean Society on 3 February; feels E. R. Lankester’s case is very cruel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 302
Summary:

BJS has just moved.

Gives the information he has of their old shipmates.

Tells of his brother’s misfortunes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Discusses fairy rings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project