From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
1-6?-1875?
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.134, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A79
Summary:
Interested to hear about the peas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 48
Summary:
Discusses feather as case of evolutionary atavism.
Will soon publish on siliceous sponges
and the skin of caterpillars.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 7
Summary:
Paralysis of the nervous system of Dionaea. Uses of tails of mice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Antony Ewoud Jan Modderman
Date:
3 June 1875
Source of text:
Leiden University Libraries (shelfmark ASF inv.nr. 327 document 86)
Summary:
Thanks for the diploma conferring on him an honorary doctorate of medicine from Leiden University.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Otto Zacharias
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 184: 1
Summary:
Intends to set up a biological periodical called “Darwinia” to spread and popularise Darwin’s theories; hopes CD may contribute a few words to the opening issue.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 June 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 35
Summary:
Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
4 June [1875]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/19)
Summary:
CD’s observations on the power of movement and transmission of motor impulses in plants. If RLT succeeds with the tails of mice, it will be "a beautiful little discovery"; CD will enjoy it the more "because some German sneered at natural selection and instanced the tail of the mouse" [see 10013].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 341
Summary:
Playfair "disgusted at our pronunciamentos against the Bill". Burdon Sanderson and William Sharpey agreed to it. THH feels he must serve on Vivisection Commission.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 8
Summary:
May publish a lecture on insectivorous plants and would like to dedicate it to CD.
Wishes to become an F.R.S.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 64
Summary:
Comments on Fritz Schultze, Kant und Darwin [1875].
Describes recent activities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
[Asa Gray]
Date:
6 June 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.48, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Partial letter comprised of a post script only, the rest of the letter is not extant in the archive. The date has been added in pencil in a hand not that of the original author, Joseph Dalton Hooker. There is no salutation but based on the letters which make up the rest of the volume the recipient is presumed to be Asa Gray. JDH asks Gray if he has any spare West African plants from the set sent to him by RBG Kew. Friedrich Welwitsch claims not to have received a set & it is possible they were sent to Gray in error, though more likely they were lost in Welwitsch's travels between London & Portugal. In turn Welwitsch has not shared his own herbarium, which is needed to complete the FLORA OF TROPICAL AFRICA.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lydia Wendland
Date:
7 June [1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2007)
Summary:
Is very grateful for the gift of a fender-stool. Will send her a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
9 June [1875-81]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks questions about earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
11 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 24–5
Summary:
Has found that H. G. Bronn in the chapter appended to his translation of Origin cited ears and tail of mice as facts opposed to natural selection. Suggests RLT examine hairs of tails of mice for possible nerves.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Zacharias
Date:
[11 June 1875]
Source of text:
Zacharias 1882 , p. 80
Summary:
CD is convinced by the conclusions of Malthus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Fritz Schultze
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 67
Summary:
Comments on his book [Kant und Darwin: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Entwicklungslehre (1875)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
12 June 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.30, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH discusses arrangements for securing Thiselton-Dyer's pay for his new position [as Assistant Director of RBG Kew]. There has been some delay on Lord Henrys'[?] part. JDH is anxious for Thiselton-Dyer to start work & congratulates him on getting the job, which he hopes has also pleased Thiselton-Dyer's family.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 9
Summary:
Has separated out a pepsin-like substance from the secretion of Drosera, which he proposes to call "Droserin".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 10
Summary:
Intends sending a paper containing some of his histological work [see "Freezing process for section-cutting; … staining and mounting sections", J. Anat. & Physiol. 9 (1875): 249–58].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project