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DCP-LETT-9886

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
13 Mar 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.

Mentions notices in the Nation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9887

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9888

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
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WCP2312

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 March 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 292-293
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9890

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9889

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4283

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther
Date:
16 March 1875
Source of text:
Moser Library, Shrewsbury School: Darwinia, Wallace & Huxley letters no. 37
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-1040

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

DCP-LETT-9891

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
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DCP-LETT-9892

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9893

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

DCP-LETT-9203

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9894

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horatio Piggot
Date:
20 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks for his suggestion about drawings for future edition [of Coral reefs].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
20 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover (Noviss. 450: A 48)
Summary:

Has read RLT’s essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] with interest. His facts about tumours seem to CD "highly favourable to some such notion as Pangenesis".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9897

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-75-03-21

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
21 March 1875
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP4039

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
21 March 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/102
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9898

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-75-03-23a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
23 March 1875
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 164
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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