From:
Francis Eugene Nipher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 172: 70
Summary:
Cites more examples of inheritance of maternal impressions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
12 [Dec 1874 - Jan 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 43
Summary:
Regrets the trouble GHD has had.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer
Date:
12 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Thanks for work on Lacerta muralis coerulea [Zoologische Studien auf Capri 2 (1874)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
[12 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 1
Summary:
Thanks for translation of his Journal of researches. Is pleased by its appearance.
Also thank Edmond Barbier for his kind words. [See 9752.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 194
Summary:
Describes his university lectures on evolution and their publication in a book [Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte (1875)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 350–1, DAR 97: C73
Summary:
Thanks JDH for his and Huxley’s countering of the false attack on George [Darwin] by Mivart. Encloses a note to Mivart on which he asks JDH’s opinion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Dec 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 342–3)
Summary:
Sends a suggested title [for Insectivorous plants?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
15 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (Rathbone XXI.12.3: 4)
Summary:
Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.
Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 118
Summary:
Awakened by a mouse scratching at night, he mewed like a cat and the mouse disappeared.
Sending a group of stuffed sparrows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.455)
Summary:
Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].
Discusses breeding and sterility.
Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.
Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 December 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.24, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to arrange a time he & Thiselton-Dyer can confer regarding the [proposed Jodrell?] laboratory.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
George King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 111
Summary:
Sends three specimens of Aldrovanda verticillata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/4)
Summary:
Asks four favours: sort out confusion about the name Byblis gigantea or grandiflora; can he see dried specimens of Genlisea ornata; is there a more recent list of Drosera spp. than Steudel 1841; are there at Kew any dried specimens of Utricularia montana collected from the plant’s native haunts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 72
Summary:
Bishop J. W. Colenso supports his old contention that the Kaffirs (including Zulus of South Africa) are Negroes.
[Horace Waller’s] The last journals of David Livingstone [in central Africa (1874)] cites CD’s plant research and has many facts "for Darwin".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 112–13
Summary:
Sends Utricularia montana and Byblis species.
Drosera census numbers 100 species.
Genlisea distinguished from Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Sidgwick
Date:
19 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Thanks for his Methods of ethics [1874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 63
Summary:
Discusses his Anthropogenie [1874]. Remarks on the tables.
Has CD received Friedrich von Hellwald’s Culturgeschichte [1875]?
Plans research trip to the Mediterranean.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 352–3
Summary:
Asks JDH to help G. J. Romanes, who wishes to try Pangenesis experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 145: 368
Summary:
Is writing confidentially not to justify the passage referred to [see 9759], which he much regrets, but to state facts. He never intended any personal hostility to [George] Darwin and seeks advice about how to make reparation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 236–8; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Dawson 2.214)
Summary:
His view of Huxley’s cutting Mivart without explanation. States his own intentions. Mivart’s apology in October Quarterly Review is abominable.
Has heard of a Drosophyllum in Edinburgh. Is it too late?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
