From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 131
Summary:
Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 45–8
Summary:
E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 176: 5
Summary:
CD’s letter from Tiflis is not in Russian but Georgian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 33
Summary:
Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 176: 6
Summary:
S. C. Malan, Rector of Broadwindsor, could translate Georgian letter from Tiflis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 29
Summary:
Sends Linnean papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 64
Summary:
He will repeat his experiments on the cat’s sense of smell.
The intelligence of rats is shown by their gnawing through lead pipes to find water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 36
Summary:
Reports on various observations and experiments: a duck–fowl hybrid with queer habits,
three cases of man–dog hybrids,
his interarching vine experiments,
and orange scale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 30
Summary:
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 480
Summary:
Copies remaining in stock of Climbing plants [2d ed.], 105,
and Origin [6th ed.], 100.
CD should send the printer any corrections he wants made before reprinting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15? Dec 1875]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 56)
Summary:
Asks CD whether it is worth sending money to prop up the Index.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 144
Summary:
Is delighted CD plans to call on him.
Wants to discuss botanical work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A92–3
Summary:
Outlines in simple form the statistical distribution of inherited characteristics in a theory of "organic units".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1875
Source of text:
CUL Manuscripts Department Add 7656: D71
Summary:
Notifies CD that information he [GGS] gave before on colours of peacock’s feathers was wrong [see 5891 et seq.] and refers CD to H. C. Sorby, who has worked on the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Parrish Thompson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 111
Summary:
Sends CD an address [missing] on Lucretius and St Paul.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B6–7
Summary:
Sends list of misprints in first edition of Insectivorous plants for the German collected works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Grenier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 475
Summary:
Asks permission to make a résumé of Insectivorous plants for Société Botanique de Lyon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 168
Summary:
Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Edwards
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 163: 3
Summary:
Sends his paper on an American pitcher-plant [Darlingtonia californica].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Dec 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 32
Summary:
Regrets having missed seeing CD when he was in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project