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DCP-LETT-10260F

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:
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DCP-LETT-10267

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 Nov 1875
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 318–19)
Summary:

Greatly pleased at sale [of Climbing plants].

Points out a discrepancy in their records of copies of Origin printed.

500 more copies of Insectivorous plants should last forever.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10269

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
22 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 127–128)
Summary:

Thanks JVC for corrections in Insectivorous plants. Explains confusion of fluid and dry measures. The work has sold well in England.

Repeats suggestion that JVC employ someone to translate Climbing plants under his supervision.

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DCP-LETT-10280

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
27 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 30
Summary:

Because CD has been unwell, he has not read RLT’s paper carefully, but it seems an important contribution to science. Hopes RLT’s chemical observations will be confirmed. It seems a great anomaly that two substances with an acid should be requisite for digestion.

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DCP-LETT-10283

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 399–400
Summary:

Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.

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DCP-LETT-10284

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)
Summary:

Abstract sent to the Royal Society. It seems to CD "uncommonly clear and well-done".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10289

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
6 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 345
Summary:

Comments on AW’s essay [on "Axolotl", Z. Wiss. Zool. 25 (suppl.) (1875): 297–342] with respect to evolutionary reversion. Peloric flowers must also be considered reversion.

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DCP-LETT-10296

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after 11 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C1–2
Summary:

Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.

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DCP-LETT-10295

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 401–2
Summary:

CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10298

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[15 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 65 (EH 88206048)
Summary:

Ferdinand Cohn has already sent a copy of his article, [possibly: "Über die Function der Blasen von Aldrovanda und Utricularia", Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1870–5) pt 3: 71–89].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10300

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
16 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 87
Summary:

Arranges to visit AWB.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
[17 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 88
Summary:

Declines invitation to breakfast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
17 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 292
Summary:

Discusses payment of £10 owed by Italians.

"No corrections for Voyage of Beagle [Journal of researches]."

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-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:
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.

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