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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:
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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
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
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
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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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
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
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 9–10
Summary:

JDH wins over Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox on assistant secretary for himself.

Has called on Murray and told him Quarterly Review had disgraced itself by attacking George and CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Albert George Dew-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 174
Summary:

Sends a letter from Anton Dohrn, which, if CD approves, will be printed with a list of all donors to the Naples Zoological Station. AGD-S has just returned from a visit to the Station and gives an account of its status. German government has made a grant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 338
Summary:

Agrees with CD on vivisection. Will communicate with Burdon Sanderson and see what can be done.

Mivart’s wriggle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 342
Summary:

Writes on behalf of Royal Society Polar Committee for suggestions concerning instructions to naturalists on new expedition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 203
Summary:

Does CD think it desirable for EBT’s wife to produce a new English translation of A. E. Brehm’s work [Illustrirtes Thierleben (1864–7)]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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