From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 28
Summary:
Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Octavius March
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1875]
Source of text:
H. C. March 1883 , p. 23
Summary:
Wonders if it is possible that the couvade had its origin in an early habit of the male sex to take part in the nourishment of the offspring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavius March
Date:
[1875]
Source of text:
March 1883 , p. 23
Summary:
His opinion of the couvade.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
1 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 185: 97
Summary:
Asks whether he might copy two of FJC’s drawings of Aldrovanda. He would like to have a proof of the plate for two woodcuts to be used in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
1 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C12
Summary:
Asks permission to republish his climbing plants paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] in a corrected form [Climbing plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
1 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/5)
Summary:
Returning the plants DO had sent him from Kew
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
--1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.26, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH advises Sir William Thiselton-Dyer not to despair of the Linnean Society. He states that it is for younger men to take the society forward. He is encouraged by the accession of new members. He has given Allman his approval of [John] Gwyn Jeffreys as the Treasurer. JDH is making geological observations in the Malverns & Cotswolds with [Reverend William Samuel] Symonds. JDH thinks tickets have been sent to 'all the men...[Thiselton-Dyer] mentions'. Either JDH or White can provide ticket to the Royal Society soiree for Mr Vines.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
--1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.28, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer that he has 'caught' a lord who wants to become a member of the Linnean Society: Lord Arthur Russell M.P.. Wallace of Colchester also hopes to join soon. JDH mentions that Charles Lyell's family are pleased he is to be buried in Westminster Abbey even though it will cost them £300. JDH is sending Reeve [his publisher] statement of correction for the FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
--1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.29, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH thanks Sir William Turner Thiseton-Dyer for his offer to assist JDH with the Macmillan Science Primer [BOTANY]. JDH's plan for the book is to write a series of short introductions to plants incl. some on physiology. The book would be in two parts: facts for the pupil & things they must observe for themselves. JDH asks Thiselton-Dyer to help him write the physiology introductions, he has already written one on cell contents but thinks Thiselton-Dyer could do it better.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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