Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
11 January 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1643
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
12 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C36
Summary:
StGJM’s article in the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77] contains wholly false and malicious accusations against CD’s son George. Since StGJM has refused to make any sort of retraction, CD will not hold any future communication with him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[after 12 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 276
Summary:
CD has written to Mivart to say that he will never hold any communication with him in future.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 6–8
Summary:
Is on the eve of another row with the Office of Works about his application for assistance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C37–8
Summary:
Is alarmed by the petitions against vivisection that are being circulated. Believes there is scope for reasonable legislation and would like to see eminent physiologists prepare a petition so that the science could be protected and animals saved from needless suffering.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 129
Summary:
Wants references to facts quoted in Variation for an essay he is writing on origin of British cattle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[19 January 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 120
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[20 January 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 121
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
23 January – 7 February [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
23 January [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 31
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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