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DCP-LETT-9803F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[after 6 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/8)
Summary:

Asks DO to return enclosed post-card with locality of Genlisea aurea specimen that DO had sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9807

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 4–5
Summary:

Tyndall, T. A. Hirst and Spencer dissuade him from writing to Mivart, but he will let him feel his disapproval.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9808

From:
Friedrich Max Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 285
Summary:

FMM discusses his reply to George Darwin’s article [see 9711].

Intends within a year to place his whole argument before CD when, he hopes, his difficulties connected with the origin of language will be carefully considered by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9809

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 367–8
Summary:

JDH would be rash not to follow advice of his friends. [CD’s] wife and George oppose his writing to Mivart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9233

From:
Alpheus Hyatt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 358
Summary:

Encloses report on his paper "Old age characteristics among ammonites", [Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 17 (1875): 236–41].

Stability of long inherited characters. Dependence of some recently acquired characters on the environment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1096

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Earl Stafford Henry Northcote
Date:
8 January 1875
Source of text:
JDH/1/16 f.54, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9810

From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 199
Summary:

Thanks CD for his letter of 1 Jan 1875. Will send a paper on the genus Volvox ["Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Gattung Volvox", Cohn Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1875) Heft 3: 99–115].

Informs CD of his discoveries of the "house"-building capacity of Difflugia, one of the lowest forms of organism.

Sends CD his writing on Aldrovanda and Utricularia, which he is welcome to use in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].

Has observed a Dionaea fertilised without insect aid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9811

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
11 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 33 [9886])
Summary:

Thanks for F. v. Hellwald [Culturgeschichte (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9812

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
12 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C36
Summary:

StGJM’s article in the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77] contains wholly false and malicious accusations against CD’s son George. Since StGJM has refused to make any sort of retraction, CD will not hold any future communication with him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1236

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Anne Maria Barkly (nee Pratt)
Date:
12 January 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.268-271, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[after 12 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 276
Summary:

CD has written to Mivart to say that he will never hold any communication with him in future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9814

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
13 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.461)
Summary:

Describes accounts of potato grafting in a German journal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000956

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
13 January 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/13, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-9814F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[14 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1)
Summary:

Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9814G

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
14 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1)
Summary:

Explains more fully why CD cannot sign Miss Cobbe’ anti-vivisection petition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9815

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 6–8
Summary:

Is on the eve of another row with the Office of Works about his application for assistance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9817

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C37–8
Summary:

Is alarmed by the petitions against vivisection that are being circulated. Believes there is scope for reasonable legislation and would like to see eminent physiologists prepare a petition so that the science could be protected and animals saved from needless suffering.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9816

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 19–20
Summary:

Would like to see papers [on potato grafting] mentioned by CD.

CD has doubtless seen case in Gardeners’ Chronicle of vine in which scion has affected the stock [P. Grieve, "Singular sport upon a grape vine", Gard. Chron. (1875): 21].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9819

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 129
Summary:

Wants references to facts quoted in Variation for an essay he is writing on origin of British cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9818

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 369–71
Summary:

Hopes JDH will beat Sir Douglas Galton.

Continues to work on insectivorous plants.

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