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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[31 January 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1518
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[February–April 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 843
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 11–13
Summary:
Has met Capt. George Strong Nares of the Challenger expedition at Huxley’s.
Huxley much at a loss to explain red clay at deep sea-bottom.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
James Thomas Knowles
Date:
8 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 46
Summary:
Letter [to editor of Contemp. Rev.] saying that W. D. Whitney would like to reply to Max Müller. Hopes space can be given him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
10 [Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 44
Summary:
J. T. Knowles [editor of Contemp. Rev.] hopes W. D. Whitney’s article will be a long one.
CD is sorry about GHD’s account of his low spirits. "I know well the feeling of life being objectless & all being vanity of vanities."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 374–6
Summary:
Is provoked by trouble he is having writing Insectivorous plants.
Curious case of an unknown form of Glaucium in earth covered with slag for 1400 years.
Contributor:
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From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 177
Summary:
Structure of Utricularia; its resemblance to an animal vascular system.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[13 February 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1519
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Christie Douglas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 239
Summary:
Sends observations inspired by reading CD’s works.
Animal showing teeth an indication of pleasure, connected with sexual instinct.
Infant feet will curl around an object placed on the sole, indicating a primitive prehensile function.
Effects of climate on man’s physical countenance evidenced in similarity of N. American Indians and Yankees.
Contributor:
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From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 [Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 30
Summary:
Understands from Lady Hawkshaw that CD generally visits London [in February]. Requests meeting with CD.
Contributor:
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