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DCP-LETT-10315

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B6–7
Summary:

Sends list of misprints in first edition of Insectivorous plants for the German collected works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10314

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
21 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 23, folder 631 1875 Dec. 18-24)
Summary:

Müller has sent Chips [from a German workshop (1867–75)] and a boring defence against WDW’s attack. GHD feels he is maligned for using the weight of CD’s name in his Contemporary Review article. CD says Müller has misinterpreted a letter from CD as supporting him in his controversy with WDW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 143: 348
Summary:

Thanks for 5th volume of the West Riding Asylum Medical Reports.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10317

From:
Francis Galton
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A94–5
Summary:

Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10212

From:
Louis Grenier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 475
Summary:

Asks permission to make a résumé of Insectivorous plants for Société Botanique de Lyon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10211

From:
Louis Grenier
To:
John Murray
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 474
Summary:

Encloses a letter to be forwarded to CD [see 10212].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10318

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 168
Summary:

Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 7656: D72)
Summary:

CD is curious about the feathers but will wait to see whether H. C. Sorby’s paper appears.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/6) Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
Summary:

Thanks for FdeC’s work [Lectures on state medicine (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10320

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Sully
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (MS ADD 158/1-6/1)
Summary:

Thanks JS for Sensation and intuition [1874]. Regrets that it was not published earlier, so he could have profited by some of the discussions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 272
Summary:

E. R. Lankester has been unfairly blackballed at the Linnean Society. He is to be proposed for a second time, with CD seconding the proposal. Urges ARW to attend the ballot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10732

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

News of the parish and neighbours.

CD pleased JBI is interested in his book [Cross and self-fertilisation].

He is pretty well and hard at work with Francis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
25 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 137–138)
Summary:

Thanks for errata in Insectivorous plants.

Sends spare copies of his papers, but thinks several are not worth publishing.

Has only one copy, which he will lend JVC, of the best one, on "Erratic boulders of South America" [Collected papers 1: 145–63].

Has not sent "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137], as he is sure he was wrong.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10324

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Nature , 17 February 1876, pp. 304–5
Summary:

"Sambaquis", or shell mounds accumulated by former inhabitants of the coast, contain shells of some animals that FM has never seen living.

Ants that live on imbauba trees (Cecropia) are attracted by small bodies at base of each petiole.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10307

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 46
Summary:

Asks to borrow Ernst Haeckel’s Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen (1865) [and Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren (1869)].

Has not been neglecting Pangenesis for Medusae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10328

From:
Henry Edwards
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 163: 3
Summary:

Sends his paper on an American pitcher-plant [Darlingtonia californica].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13826

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:
26 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Bonhams, New York (dealers), 4 December 2019, lot 18)
Summary:

Sends Charles Lyell’s letters. Those from 1862–9 are so heavy that they have to be put in two parcels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8133

From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Dec 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 32
Summary:

Regrets having missed seeing CD when he was in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.483)
Summary:

Encloses list of errata in Insectivorous plants [1875] for the French translator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10325

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.482)
Summary:

Sends books.

Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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