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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 7656: D72)
Summary:
CD is curious about the feathers but will wait to see whether H. C. Sorby’s paper appears.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 December 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 148: 272
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/6) Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
Summary:
Thanks for FdeC’s work [Lectures on state medicine (1875)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Sully
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (MS ADD 158/1-6/1)
Summary:
Thanks JS for Sensation and intuition [1874]. Regrets that it was not published earlier, so he could have profited by some of the discussions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 272
Summary:
E. R. Lankester has been unfairly blackballed at the Linnean Society. He is to be proposed for a second time, with CD seconding the proposal. Urges ARW to attend the ballot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
25 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 137–138)
Summary:
Thanks for errata in Insectivorous plants.
Sends spare copies of his papers, but thinks several are not worth publishing.
Has only one copy, which he will lend JVC, of the best one, on "Erratic boulders of South America" [Collected papers 1: 145–63].
Has not sent "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137], as he is sure he was wrong.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Nature , 17 February 1876, pp. 304–5
Summary:
"Sambaquis", or shell mounds accumulated by former inhabitants of the coast, contain shells of some animals that FM has never seen living.
Ants that live on imbauba trees (Cecropia) are attracted by small bodies at base of each petiole.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 46
Summary:
Asks to borrow Ernst Haeckel’s Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen (1865) [and Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren (1869)].
Has not been neglecting Pangenesis for Medusae.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:
26 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Bonhams, New York (dealers), 4 December 2019, lot 18)
Summary:
Sends Charles Lyell’s letters. Those from 1862–9 are so heavy that they have to be put in two parcels.
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.483)
Summary:
Encloses list of errata in Insectivorous plants [1875] for the French translator.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.482)
Summary:
Sends books.
Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 262
Summary:
He is proposing [John Wesley] Judd for FRS and asks for CD’s support.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Edwards
Date:
[after 26 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
Parke-Bernet (dealers) (24 September 1963)
Summary:
Thanks for sending "wonderful speciment of Darlingtonia".
"I will not forget your obliging offer of giving me information with respect to California about which I may be curious."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 December 1875
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-395404
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 148: 273
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 189
Summary:
AG’s notices of Insectivorous plants [Nation 22 (1876): 12–14, 30–2]
and Climbing plants [2d ed., Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 11 (1876): 69–74].
Use of flower peduncles for support in Maurandia. Transition from branches to tendrils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/20)
Summary:
Is glad ARW will attend to vote for Lankester [at the Linnean Society].
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