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DCP-LETT-9835

From:
George Brownen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 336
Summary:

Suspects a plant he has found, Hyoscyamus niger, is insectivorous. Its hairs in water caused dissolution of egg-white.

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DCP-LETT-9834

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Blanche Alethea Elizabeth Holt; Blanche Alethea Elizabeth Cookson; Blanche Alethea Elizabeth Crackanthorpe
Date:
30 Jan 1875
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Is happy to send his autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9835F

From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 215/1
Summary:

Account of the fund to help Anton Dohrn’s zoological station at Naples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9836

From:
August Wilhelm Malm
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 32
Summary:

Sends his paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13889A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Jan [1875-82]
Source of text:
Romero de Tejada 1982, p. 150; Museo Nacional de Etnología [now Antropología], Madrid
Summary:

[Provides directions for travel to Down by train.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9219B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 8
Summary:

Begs FD’s pardon: his notes on Utricularia amethystina are on same page with those on U. nelumbifolia.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9838

From:
Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 181
Summary:

At work on new editions of his books against CD’s theory [La teoria dell’uomo-scimmia (1864); La théorie darwinienne (1874)]. Had hoped to receive CD’s comments, as earlier promised; they would still be useful.

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DCP-LETT-9837

From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: A94
Summary:

Statement of U. S. sales of Origin, Expression, and Descent.

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RS-MM-000959

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
1 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/16, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-9839

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav Jäger
Date:
3 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection)
Summary:

Comments on GJ’s book [In Sachen Darwins ins-besondere contra Wigand (1874)]. Not convinced that there are species which are fixed or variable independently of the conditions to which they are subjected.

Contributor:
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RS-MM-000960

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
3 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/17, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-13889B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Feb [1875-82]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 124
Summary:

Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9840

From:
Anton Bachmaier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 10
Summary:

Asks for information about alleged regeneration of amputated human fingers and toes. Mentions observations on regeneration of salamander extremities.

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RS-MM-000961

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
4 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/18, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-9841

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 99
Summary:

New [3d] German edition of Descent will soon be out.

Will begin translating Journal of researches, which will be first volume of CD’s collected works.

JVC has proposed bringing out all CD’s botanical papers in one or two volumes.

Errata in Descent enclosed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9842

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 256
Summary:

Has been appointed to a Keepership at British Museum.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9844

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
7 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 131–132)
Summary:

Thanks JVC for errata [in Descent, 2d ed.].

Discusses work in progress and publication plans.

Will be pleased to receive concluding volume of JVC’s Zoologie [see 8531].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9845

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 215
Summary:

Thanks to CD’s help Zoological Station has passed a crisis and is now flourishing.

Is writing pamphlet on "the origin of vertebrates and the principle of succession of functions" [see 9991 and 10003]. It is likely CD will not be pleased with it, but he thinks he must now, after seven years, bring it out. Seeks to open the way for a new series of theoretical questions.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9843

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 11–13
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9852

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
[after 7 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 1120)
Summary:

The Zoological Station has already resulted in "capital work" by F. M. Balfour and Ray Lankester. G. J. Romanes is coming next year.

CD will be interested in AD’s ancestry of vertebrates. "I shall be very sorry to give up the ascidians."

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