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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
5 Jan 1875
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

CD would be pleased to have FBG’s essay dedicated to him but fears that he will be unable to give any assistance towards FBG’s ‘excellent scheme’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Max Müller
Date:
5 Jan 1875
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 89, October 2002)
Summary:

Has read FMM’s article in Contemporary Review [25 (1875): 305–26].

Never suspected FMM was responsible for the Quarterly Review article ["Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77]; knows it was written by Mivart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
6 Jan 1875
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 313)
Summary:

Thanks THH for his article in the Academy and his defence of CD and G. H. Darwin against Mivart. Still thinks he should write plainly to Mivart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
6 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD’s observations [for Insectivorous plants] seem to indicate that the same species of Genlisea may bear two kinds of bladders, so he asks for rhizomes and leaves of three species to test this possibility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[after 6 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/8)
Summary:

Asks DO to return enclosed post-card with locality of Genlisea aurea specimen that DO had sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Earl Stafford Henry Northcote
Date:
8 January 1875
Source of text:
JDH/1/16 f.54, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
10 January 1875
Source of text:
McGill University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project