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DCP-LETT-9811

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
11 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 33 [9886])
Summary:

Thanks for F. v. Hellwald [Culturgeschichte (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1460

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
11 January 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1643
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-75-01-12

From:
Hermann Püttmann
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 January 1875
Source of text:
Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.Notice found interleaved in a copy of Victoria. Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council, Session 1850, Bills at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9812

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
12 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C36
Summary:

StGJM’s article in the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77] contains wholly false and malicious accusations against CD’s son George. Since StGJM has refused to make any sort of retraction, CD will not hold any future communication with him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1236

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Anne Maria Barkly (nee Pratt)
Date:
12 January 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.268-271, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[after 12 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 276
Summary:

CD has written to Mivart to say that he will never hold any communication with him in future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9814

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
13 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.461)
Summary:

Describes accounts of potato grafting in a German journal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000956

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
13 January 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/13, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-9814F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[14 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1)
Summary:

Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9814G

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
14 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1)
Summary:

Explains more fully why CD cannot sign Miss Cobbe’ anti-vivisection petition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9815

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 6–8
Summary:

Is on the eve of another row with the Office of Works about his application for assistance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9817

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C37–8
Summary:

Is alarmed by the petitions against vivisection that are being circulated. Believes there is scope for reasonable legislation and would like to see eminent physiologists prepare a petition so that the science could be protected and animals saved from needless suffering.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9816

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 19–20
Summary:

Would like to see papers [on potato grafting] mentioned by CD.

CD has doubtless seen case in Gardeners’ Chronicle of vine in which scion has affected the stock [P. Grieve, "Singular sport upon a grape vine", Gard. Chron. (1875): 21].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9819

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 129
Summary:

Wants references to facts quoted in Variation for an essay he is writing on origin of British cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9818

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 369–71
Summary:

Hopes JDH will beat Sir Douglas Galton.

Continues to work on insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9819F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
16 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (15 May 2008)
Summary:

Can give no more information about white and dark cattle than William Youatt gave in his book on cattle (Youatt 1834).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9820

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 9–10
Summary:

JDH wins over Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox on assistant secretary for himself.

Has called on Murray and told him Quarterly Review had disgraced itself by attacking George and CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9822

From:
Albert George Dew-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 174
Summary:

Sends a letter from Anton Dohrn, which, if CD approves, will be printed with a list of all donors to the Naples Zoological Station. AGD-S has just returned from a visit to the Station and gives an account of its status. German government has made a grant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9821

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 372–3
Summary:

Astonished at JDH’s success versus Galton

and his attack on Murray is superb. Has written a formal letter to Mivart enumerating his offences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9824

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree-Dyer, (1830–1884) 719)
Summary:

Thanks GB for his "Report on [the recent progress and present state of] systematic botany" [Rep. BAAS (1874): 27–54] and for the way in which he refers to CD’s book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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