From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moritz Traube
Date:
5 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Francis Storr Correspondence (Mss2304))
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for two essays.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
7 Mar 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.464)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for article on CD in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Oswald Heer
Date:
8 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Nachlass Oswald Heer 213.2)
Summary:
Thanks OH for his book [see 9876]; agrees that the sudden appearance of many dicotyledons in the Upper Chalk is a perplexing phenomenon for the evolutionist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 5)
Summary:
No uniform edition of CD’s works has appeared in England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:
11 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Summary:
Thanks for publication [Berste bijdrage tot een nauwkeuriger kennis der sessile cirripedien (1875)]. Cannot read Dutch. Mentions PPCH’s research on cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
[13–15 Mar 1875]
Source of text:
Birmingham Daily Post , 8 April 1875, p. 6
Summary:
Thinks CD is right about the retention of a tail.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
13 Mar 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.
Mentions notices in the Nation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horatio Piggot
Date:
20 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Thanks for his suggestion about drawings for future edition [of Coral reefs].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
20 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover (Noviss. 450: A 48)
Summary:
Has read RLT’s essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] with interest. His facts about tumours seem to CD "highly favourable to some such notion as Pangenesis".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
25 Mar 1875
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 62, July 1989)
Summary:
Would be glad to make RLT’s acquaintance, but CD’s health would make RLT’s visit to Down unprofitable. Suggests a meeting in London at end of month.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Keylock Rusden
Date:
[before 27 Mar 1875]
Source of text:
Ovens and Murray Advertiser , 27 March 1875, p. 5
Summary:
Thanks for copy of lecture (Rusden 1874: Selection, natural and artificial, a lecture delivered in the Wangaratta Athenaeum by Mr. H. K. Rusden on Monday, October 26th, 1874) and essay (Rusden 1872: The treatment of criminals in relation to science, an essay read before the Royal Society of Victoria).
Comments on the essay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 382–3
Summary:
Has at last finished Insectivorous plants
and is rewriting Climbing plants.
W. W. Ouless has finished his picture of CD for Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Pennington Thomasson
Date:
30 Mar 1875
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8876(i))
Summary:
Seems to be in error about the nests of the two flycatchers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
31 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 82
Summary:
Has just come to London. Invites TB to luncheon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project