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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Disapproves of Huxley’s article [review of Ernst Haeckel’s Anthropogenie] in Academy [7 (1875): 16–18].
Has not heard from Mivart; CD is convinced he is a hypocrite.
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.
Is not inclined to restrain himself from expressing his opinion of Mivart. Huxley’s article in Academy.
Tyndall, T. A. Hirst and Spencer dissuade him from writing to Mivart, but he will let him feel his disapproval.
JDH would be rash not to follow advice of his friends. [CD’s] wife and George oppose his writing to Mivart.
Is on the eve of another row with the Office of Works about his application for assistance.
Hopes JDH will beat Sir Douglas Galton.
Continues to work on insectivorous plants.
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.
Astonished at JDH’s success versus Galton
and his attack on Murray is superb. Has written a formal letter to Mivart enumerating his offences.
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.
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.
Lyell very ill.
No two specimens of Glaucium are alike.
Lord Henry [Lennox] still burkes JDH’s application.
Mourns death of Lyell. Wonders whether enough men of science were attached to him to raise a fitting testimonial.
On Lyell’s death; JDH has arranged for burial in Westminster Abbey. His thoughts on a testimonial.
More trouble with Lord Henry Lennox.
CD on his memory of Lyell. Deeply rejoices that he is to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
No action on assistance yet, but has had a private note from Disraeli asking whether Thiselton-Dyer is his recommendation.
Has at last finished Insectivorous plants
and is rewriting Climbing plants.
W. W. Ouless has finished his picture of CD for Academy.
Likes draft of petition on vivisection. Asks whether phrase "and the lower animals" might not be added at end.
CD and others now think it advisable to go further than a petition on vivisection, and a bill has been drafted.
F. Delpino’s pamphlet on pitchers ["Sulle pianti a bicchieri", Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 3 (1871): 174–6].
