From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 303
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent, 2d ed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Harrison, Frederic
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
1 March 1875
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1893
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Oswald Heer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 130
Summary:
Comments on his Flora fossilis Arctica [vol. 3 (1875)]. Discusses successive appearance of plant families in geological periods. Relates plant development to rise of herbivorous mammals.
Comments on death of Charles Lyell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Moritz Traube
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 176
Summary:
Sends two treatises which explain cell-wall formation and some aspects of cell growth in physico-chemical terms ["Experimente zur Theorie d. Zellenbildung und Endosmose", Arch. Anat. Physiol. (1867): 87–128, 126–65].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
3 March [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1644
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
5 March 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.241-244, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moritz Traube
Date:
5 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Francis Storr Correspondence (Mss2304))
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for two essays.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Foster
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 March 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 288-289
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
7 Mar 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.464)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for article on CD in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Oswald Heer
Date:
8 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Nachlass Oswald Heer 213.2)
Summary:
Thanks OH for his book [see 9876]; agrees that the sudden appearance of many dicotyledons in the Upper Chalk is a perplexing phenomenon for the evolutionist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
8 March 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/101
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Robert Ramsay
Date:
9 March 1875
Source of text:
G75/2782, unit 1022, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Gould Anne Ruxton; Gould Anne Wolfe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 135
Summary:
CD’s Descent.
Fighting among beetles.
Similarity between dogs and men; intelligence of dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Foster
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 March [1875]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 290-291
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 March 1875
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 5)
Summary:
No uniform edition of CD’s works has appeared in England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:
11 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Summary:
Thanks for publication [Berste bijdrage tot een nauwkeuriger kennis der sessile cirripedien (1875)]. Cannot read Dutch. Mentions PPCH’s research on cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 143
Summary:
Has found the relation of pollen-grain size to style size in Primula to be the opposite of CD’s view; asks whether there is an error or just remarkable variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 2
Summary:
Purpose of bushy tails; their usefulness to their owners as a means of keeping warm.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
[13–15 Mar 1875]
Source of text:
Birmingham Daily Post , 8 April 1875, p. 6
Summary:
Thinks CD is right about the retention of a tail.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project