From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavius March
Date:
[1875]
Source of text:
March 1883 , p. 23
Summary:
His opinion of the couvade.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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’.
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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.
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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.
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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.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
16 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (15 May 2008)
Summary:
Can give no more information about white and dark cattle than William Youatt gave in his book on cattle (Youatt 1834).
Contributor:
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