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].
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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:
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
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:
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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:
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From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 130
Summary:
Is glad CD is pleased with his book [Cave hunting (1874)].
Relationship between language and race. The Basques.
Contributor:
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From:
John Fiske
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 126
Summary:
Thanks CD for Descent
and for his praise of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin John Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 74
Summary:
Reports an Araujia in Portugal that captures various insects on the horns of its stigma. Relates this to another asclepiad, Apocynum, which also captures insects. Is this "insectivory" or insect fertilisation?
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 3
Summary:
Uses of tails of mice. Functions of tails generally.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
17 March [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.30
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 20–1
Summary:
No action on assistance yet, but has had a private note from Disraeli asking whether Thiselton-Dyer is his recommendation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 4
Summary:
Sends a short essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] on which he would welcome CD’s opinion. Believes problems of pathology can be attacked by regarding them from "Darwinian" point of view.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 445
Summary:
A curious alteration in the reprint of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Mar – 14 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 149
Summary:
Gives Carl Claus’s identifications of the organisms sent by CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Horatio Piggot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 69: 73
Summary:
Suggests advantage to students of adding coloured drawings of the coral-producing zoophytes in next edition of Coral reefs.
Contributor:
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From:
Anton Bachmaier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 11
Summary:
Thanks for reference concerning regeneration of human fingers and toes.
Sends lecture on language.
Asks for information about animal communication by vocal sounds.
Contributor:
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From:
Edwin John Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 75
Summary:
He will write to Portugal for the insect-capturing Araujia.
Contributor:
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