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DCP-LETT-9901

From:
Oswald Heer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 131
Summary:

Discusses his work [Flora fossilis Arctica, vol. 4, pt 1 (1876)].

Sends copy of [Fossile Pflanzen von Sumatra (1874)]. Comments on climate in Tertiary period, especially on Sumatra.

Comments on theory of Thomas Belt concerning climatic change in ice age.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9899

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 446
Summary:

Sends CD a cheque for 68 guineas – his two-thirds share of profit on sale of 2000 copies of 2d edition of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9900

From:
John Pennington Thomasson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 109
Summary:

On nesting habits of pied and spotted flycatchers.

JPT disagrees with CD’s comment in Descent.

Marriages of first cousins produce congenital deaf-mutism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9900F

From:
Antony Ewoud Jan Modderman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Leiden University Libraries (shelfmark ASF inv.nr. 327 document 55)
Summary:

Informing CD (and 20 others) of the award of an honorary degree by Leiden University.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1221

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
25 March 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.245-246, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9902

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
25 Mar 1875
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 62, July 1989)
Summary:

Would be glad to make RLT’s acquaintance, but CD’s health would make RLT’s visit to Down unprofitable. Suggests a meeting in London at end of month.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9903

From:
Thomas Burgess
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: D15–16
Summary:

TB, who sailed with CD [as a Royal Marine] in the Beagle, asks for CD’s portrait. Recalls some events they shared.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2313

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 March 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 294-295
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2314

From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 March 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 296
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9705F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Keylock Rusden
Date:
[before 27 Mar 1875]
Source of text:
Ovens and Murray Advertiser , 27 March 1875, p. 5
Summary:

Thanks for copy of lecture (Rusden 1874: Selection, natural and artificial, a lecture delivered in the Wangaratta Athenaeum by Mr. H. K. Rusden on Monday, October 26th, 1874) and essay (Rusden 1872: The treatment of criminals in relation to science, an essay read before the Royal Society of Victoria).

Comments on the essay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9904

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 5
Summary:

Is preparing a paper on the umbilical cord ["On the anatomy of the umbilical cord", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 23 (1875): 498–501; 24 (1876): 417–40] of which he sends a preliminary note [missing]. Believes spiral growth of the umbilical cord is important evidence of the descent of man; speculates on spiral growth in general.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4040

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
28 March 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/103
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4041

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
29 March 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9905

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 382–3
Summary:

Has at last finished Insectivorous plants

and is rewriting Climbing plants.

W. W. Ouless has finished his picture of CD for Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9905F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Pennington Thomasson
Date:
30 Mar 1875
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8876(i))
Summary:

Seems to be in error about the nests of the two flycatchers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9906

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
31 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 82
Summary:

Has just come to London. Invites TB to luncheon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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