From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 344
Summary:
Arrangements for CD’s appearance before Vivisection Commission.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A83–A86
Summary:
Outlines a memoir he will give at the Anthropological Society in which he differs theoretically with Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 42–4
Summary:
Sends successful graft-hybrid of red and white carrot.
CD should correct passage in Variation explaining deformation of sternum in fowls [Variation, 2d ed., 1: 287–8].
Chapter in Variation on Pangenesis is admirable.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A87
Summary:
Sends a proof of his "Theory of heredity" from the Contemporary Review [27 (1875): 80–95; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 329–48]. Welcomes CD’s help and criticism.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 21
Summary:
Composition of "Droserin" [see 10015].
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 65
Summary:
Thanks CD for Climbing plants and Insectivorous plants.
Discusses his research on phylogeny. Results described in "Die Gastrula und die Eifurchung der Tiere" [Jena. Z. Naturw. 9 (1875): 402–508].
Describes newly discovered coral.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 180: 19
Summary:
Thanks for 2d edition of Climbing plants and for CD’s recognition of HdeV’s two essays on the subject [Climbing plants, pp. v–vi, 9 n., 22, 160]. Cause of spiral growth of tendrils.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: B123
Summary:
Thanks for Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Is reading proofs [of Geographical distribution (1876)].
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 November 1875
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B123
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 258
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 285]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A88–9
Summary:
Responds to suggestions and criticisms CD made to "theory of heredity" [see 10245].
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 10 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 62
Summary:
Discusses his ambitions.
Writes of rats that gnaw through lead pipes to find water.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 63
Summary:
Apologises for troubling CD to look for his lost MS.
Contributor:
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From:
William Henry Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 123
Summary:
Gives an example of the power of reasoning shown by dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 477
Summary:
Electrotypes of woodcuts in Climbing plants [2d ed.]
and Variation [2d ed.] for Appleton.
Asks CD whether he has any corrections for Insectivorous plants before stereotypes are made.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 22
Summary:
Has CD ever come across Dischidia rafflesiana?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 23
Summary:
Has extracted a highly deliquescent substance from digestive secretion of insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 180: 20
Summary:
Hopes to continue study of climbing plants next summer and to observe facts mentioned in CD’s letter.
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.11: 3
Summary:
Report on sales of Origin, Insectivorous plants, and Climbing plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 102
Summary:
Queries concerned with his translation of Insectivorous plants, which has been delayed by illness but is now two-thirds done.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 24
Summary:
His paper [for Royal Society] is completed; would CD like to read it?
Contributor:
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