From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 369–71
Summary:
Hopes JDH will beat Sir Douglas Galton.
Continues to work on insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 9–10
Summary:
JDH wins over Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox on assistant secretary for himself.
Has called on Murray and told him Quarterly Review had disgraced itself by attacking George and CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Albert George Dew-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 174
Summary:
Sends a letter from Anton Dohrn, which, if CD approves, will be printed with a list of all donors to the Naples Zoological Station. AGD-S has just returned from a visit to the Station and gives an account of its status. German government has made a grant.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 372–3
Summary:
Astonished at JDH’s success versus Galton
and his attack on Murray is superb. Has written a formal letter to Mivart enumerating his offences.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 338
Summary:
Agrees with CD on vivisection. Will communicate with Burdon Sanderson and see what can be done.
Mivart’s wriggle.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 342
Summary:
Writes on behalf of Royal Society Polar Committee for suggestions concerning instructions to naturalists on new expedition.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A48–53
Summary:
Sends suggestions for observations on glacial phenomena that might be made on the [Polar] expedition [of H. M. S. Alert and Discovery, 1875–6].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 165
Summary:
Asks AG to forward [unspecified] enclosure to Chauncey Wright.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 203
Summary:
Does CD think it desirable for EBT’s wife to produce a new English translation of A. E. Brehm’s work [Illustrirtes Thierleben (1864–7)]?
Contributor:
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From:
George Brownen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 336
Summary:
Suspects a plant he has found, Hyoscyamus niger, is insectivorous. Its hairs in water caused dissolution of egg-white.
Contributor:
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From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 215/1
Summary:
Account of the fund to help Anton Dohrn’s zoological station at Naples.
Contributor:
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From:
August Wilhelm Malm
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 32
Summary:
Sends his paper.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 8
Summary:
Begs FD’s pardon: his notes on Utricularia amethystina are on same page with those on U. nelumbifolia.
Contributor:
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From:
Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 181
Summary:
At work on new editions of his books against CD’s theory [La teoria dell’uomo-scimmia (1864); La théorie darwinienne (1874)]. Had hoped to receive CD’s comments, as earlier promised; they would still be useful.
Contributor:
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From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: A94
Summary:
Statement of U. S. sales of Origin, Expression, and Descent.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Feb [1875-82]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 124
Summary:
Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.
Contributor:
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From:
Anton Bachmaier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 10
Summary:
Asks for information about alleged regeneration of amputated human fingers and toes. Mentions observations on regeneration of salamander extremities.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 99
Summary:
New [3d] German edition of Descent will soon be out.
Will begin translating Journal of researches, which will be first volume of CD’s collected works.
JVC has proposed bringing out all CD’s botanical papers in one or two volumes.
Errata in Descent enclosed.
Contributor:
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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 256
Summary:
Has been appointed to a Keepership at British Museum.
Contributor:
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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 215
Summary:
Thanks to CD’s help Zoological Station has passed a crisis and is now flourishing.
Is writing pamphlet on "the origin of vertebrates and the principle of succession of functions" [see 9991 and 10003]. It is likely CD will not be pleased with it, but he thinks he must now, after seven years, bring it out. Seeks to open the way for a new series of theoretical questions.
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.42
- Tait, Lawson32
- Cooke, R. F.28
- John Murray28
- Darwin, Francis12
- Huxley, T. H.12
- Darwin, G. H.9
- Galton, Francis9
- Murray, John (b)9
- Cohn, F. J.7
- Carus, J. V.6
- Nevill, D. F.6
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.6
- Walpole, D. F.6
- Weir, J. J.6
- Bennett, A. W.5
- Darwin, W. E.5
- Playfair, Lyon5
- Belt, Thomas4
- Cardwell, Edward4
- D. Appleton & Co4
- Wallace, A. R.4
- Burgess, Thomas3
- Dawkins, W. B.3
- Delpino, Federico3
- Dohrn, Anton3
- Fayrer, Joseph3
- Gray, Asa3
- Hallett, F. F.3
- Heer, Oswald3
- Johnston, E. J.3
- Lubbock, John3
- Max Müller, Friedrich3
- Müller, Hermann3
- Newington, Samuel3
- Nicols, Arthur3
- Ogle, William3
- Paget, James3
- Ralston, W. R. S.-3
- Unidentified3
- Allen, Thomas2
- Bachmaier, Anton2
- Bergson, Edouard2
- Bianconi, G. G.2
- Burgers, T. F.2
- Canestrini, Giovanni2
- Chambers, Annie2
- Clark, J. W. (b)2
- Dowie, Annie2
- Farrer, T. H.2
- Fox, W. D.2
- Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C.2
- Haeckel, Ernst2
- Hesse-Wartegg, Ernst von2
- Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften2
- Linnean Society2
- Marshall, William2
- Oliver, Daniel2
- Pflüger, E. F. W.2
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals2
- Sackville-West, M. C.2
- Scott, W. H.2
- Stanley, E. H.2
- Stanley, M. C.2
- Stokes, G. G.2
- Tylor, E. B.2
- Tyndall, John2
- Vries, Hugo de2
- Weismann, August2
- William Clowes & Sons2
- Zacharias, Otto2
- Accademia dei Lincei1
- Balfour, F. M.1
- Baynes, T. S.1
- Beneden, Édouard van1
- Berkeley, M. J.1
- Brown, T. C.1
- Brownen, George1
- Buckley, A. B.1
- Butler, A. G.1
- Canby, W. M.1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Clowes, E. A.1
- Coan, T. M.1
- Crichton-Browne, James1
- Cross, R. A.1
- Cupples, George1
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Darwin, H. E.1
- Davis, Mary1
- Dew-Smith, A. G.1
- Dodel-Port, Arnold1
- Douglas, J. C.1
- Edwards, Henry1
- Emery, Woodward1
- Fiske, John1
- Fitzgerald, R. D.1
- Foster, Michael1
- Fritsche, Gustavus1
- Gibb, James1
- Gilbert, J. H.1
- Grenier, Louis1
- Günther, Albert1
- Hildebrand, Friedrich1
- Hyatt, Alpheus1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Jameson, James1
- Lane Fox, A. M.1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Ludlow, J. M. F.1
- Malm, A. W.1
- Meehan, Thomas1
- Mivart, S. G. J.1
- Morehouse, G. W.1
- Morphy, F. J.1
- Papé, Charlotte1
- Piggot, Horatio1
- Pitt-Rivers, A. M.1
- Price, John1
- Reade, W. W.1
- Riedel, J. G. F.1
- Riemann, Rudolf1
- Robertson, G. C.1
- Rolleston, George1
- Ruxton, G. A.1
- Sachs, Julius1
- Sandwith, Humphry1
- Schultze, Fritz1
- Secretary of the Royal Commission on vivisection1
- Segrave, W. F.1
- Sella, Quintino1
- Severtsov, N. A.1
- Spencer, Herbert1
- Stanley, A. M.1
- Story, Nevil1
- Story-Maskelyne, Nevil1
- Stuart, A. J.1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Thomasson, J. P.1
- Thompson, J. P.1
- Traube, Moritz1
- Treat, Mary1
- Voysey, Charles1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Wolfe, G. A.1
- Wright, Chauncey1
Document type
Repository
- Cambridge University Library
- American Philosophical Society1
- Huntington Library1
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland1
- Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)1
- Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz1
- The British Library1