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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 399–400
Summary:
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)
Summary:
Abstract sent to the Royal Society. It seems to CD "uncommonly clear and well-done".
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Carlyle
Date:
4 Dec 1875
Source of text:
National Trust (Carlyle’s House)
Summary:
A letter of congratulation to Thomas Carlyle on his 80th birthday signed by CD and 118 others; to accompany the gift of a commemorative medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Quintino Sella
Date:
4 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Fondazione Sella – Biella (archivio: carte di Quintino Sella, serie Accademia dei Lincei, m. 6, f. 20, s.f. Charles Darwin)
Summary:
Acknowledges QS’s letter [10280f] and the diploma of the Accademia dei Lincei.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
6 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 345
Summary:
Comments on AW’s essay [on "Axolotl", Z. Wiss. Zool. 25 (suppl.) (1875): 297–342] with respect to evolutionary reversion. Peloric flowers must also be considered reversion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Haslemere Educational Museum (LD-8-885-P351)
Summary:
Asks for CD to add his name to James Croll’s application to the Royal Society of London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
Date:
7 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Bradford Galleries (dealers) (1992)
Summary:
Snow has caused postponement of trip to London. Will inform WR when he arrives.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
9 Dec 1875
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen 524/12 Coll-74/11/12 1. 1)
Summary:
CD has signed James Croll’s certificate [of nomination to Royal Society] with real pleasure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 36)
Summary:
Asks JDH to try to come to luncheon if he is in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 325)
Summary:
Is coming to London. Will call on THH.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after 11 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C1–2
Summary:
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 401–2
Summary:
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.4
- Ralston, W. R. S.-4
- Bennett, A. W.3
- Carus, J. V.3
- Darwin, Francis3
- Romanes, G. J.3
- Cooke, R. F.2
- Edwards, Henry2
- Galton, Francis2
- Geikie, Archibald2
- John Murray2
- Stokes, G. G.2
- Story, Nevil2
- Story-Maskelyne, Nevil2
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.2
- Wallace, A. R.2
- Wallace, Alfred Russel2
- Carlyle, Thomas1
- Crichton-Browne, James1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Dawkins, W. B.1
- François de Chaumont, F. S. B.1
- Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C.1
- Gilbert, J. H.1
- Gray, Asa1
- Grenier, Louis1
- Horner, K. M.1
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Lyell, K. M.1
- Müller, Fritz1
- Nevill, D. F.1
- Newington, Samuel1
- Nicols, Arthur1
- Oliver, Daniel1
- Reinwald, C.-F.1
- Sackville-West, M. C.1
- Sella, Quintino1
- Stanley, M. C.1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Sully, James1
- Tait, Lawson1
- Thompson, J. P.1
- Unidentified1
- Walpole, D. F.1
- Weir, J. J.1
- Weismann, August1