From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 28
Summary:
Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.
Contributor:
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From:
Fox, W. D.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1875–80]
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 36
Summary:
Sends date of his mother’s death – 7 Apr 1859.
Was completely mystified by conjuring performance of [John Nevil] Maskelyne.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
1 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 185: 97
Summary:
Asks whether he might copy two of FJC’s drawings of Aldrovanda. He would like to have a proof of the plate for two woodcuts to be used in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 122a
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 122b
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1875]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 840
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
1 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C12
Summary:
Asks permission to republish his climbing plants paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] in a corrected form [Climbing plants].
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 115
Summary:
The generic name Genlisea must be preserved for Utriculariaceae with five-part calyces.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 1
Summary:
Disapproves of Huxley’s article [review of Ernst Haeckel’s Anthropogenie] in Academy [7 (1875): 16–18].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 363–4
Summary:
Has not heard from Mivart; CD is convinced he is a hypocrite.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
4 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 36
Summary:
Describes his views on vivisection. Cannot sign petition of F. P. Cobbe, with its attack on Rudolf Virchow.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 2–3
Summary:
Huxley strongly dissuades JDH from writing to Mivart because of his Presidency of Royal Society. JDH will hold his letter until he hears what Bentham says.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 58.2: 71, 73–82, DAR 164: 112
Summary:
Encloses results of experiments on influence of snake poison on ciliary action and vegetable protoplasm.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 365–6
Summary:
Is not inclined to restrain himself from expressing his opinion of Mivart. Huxley’s article in Academy.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 4–5
Summary:
Tyndall, T. A. Hirst and Spencer dissuade him from writing to Mivart, but he will let him feel his disapproval.
Contributor:
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From:
Friedrich Max Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 285
Summary:
FMM discusses his reply to George Darwin’s article [see 9711].
Intends within a year to place his whole argument before CD when, he hopes, his difficulties connected with the origin of language will be carefully considered by CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
8 and 13 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 367–8
Summary:
JDH would be rash not to follow advice of his friends. [CD’s] wife and George oppose his writing to Mivart.
Contributor:
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From:
Alpheus Hyatt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 358
Summary:
Encloses report on his paper "Old age characteristics among ammonites", [Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 17 (1875): 236–41].
Stability of long inherited characters. Dependence of some recently acquired characters on the environment.
Contributor:
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From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 199
Summary:
Thanks CD for his letter of 1 Jan 1875. Will send a paper on the genus Volvox ["Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Gattung Volvox", Cohn Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1875) Heft 3: 99–115].
Informs CD of his discoveries of the "house"-building capacity of Difflugia, one of the lowest forms of organism.
Sends CD his writing on Aldrovanda and Utricularia, which he is welcome to use in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].
Has observed a Dionaea fertilised without insect aid.
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