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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 338
Summary:

Agrees with CD on vivisection. Will communicate with Burdon Sanderson and see what can be done.

Mivart’s wriggle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 January 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.49, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH is behind with correspondence as usual, he has been promised some assistance by the Treasury. He thanks Asa Gray for delicate notice of JDH's wife. States Romneya seeds are acceptable. Describes the recent poor health of [Charles] Lyell, including epileptic fits. Mentions books for the Linnean & Horticultural Societies. Sargent has written & JDH has received his trees. Expresses how touched he is by Mrs Gray's letter to his sister. Notes Sechium is: 'all right'. The Catalogue of Scientific Papers is on the agenda for the next Library[?] meeting. From what Henry has written JDH is not clear whether the collections of [William] Jameson were bought or lent. Jameson died on the road from Guayaquil to Quito, he was over 80 & did not have sufficient money or food for the trip. Jameson's family did not support his botanising, he had family in Quito & Dundee & his representative is probably a son who was living in Chile. JDH asks that this letter be forwarded to Miss Grace Ellis, a friend of Tyndale. Tyndale has sent JDH some "wood-hangings".

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[19 January 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 120
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert George Dew-Smith
Date:
19 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.462)
Summary:

Discusses subscriptions for the Naples Zoological Station.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
19 January 1875
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[20 January 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 121
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alpheus Hyatt
Date:
21 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007)
Summary:

Thanks for note and extract.

Will be glad to read AH’s memoir when published [? "The Jurassic and Cretaceous Ammonites collected in South America by Prof. James Orton" Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. [Proc Mem Jnl!?] 17 (1875): 365–72].

Recalls AH’s visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 342
Summary:

Writes on behalf of Royal Society Polar Committee for suggestions concerning instructions to naturalists on new expedition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
23 January – 7 February [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
23 January [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 31
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
23 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks Council for their kindness; even if he had known that the right to reprint papers was a recognised one he would have asked the Council’s consent [before reprinting Climbing plants?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
23 Jan [1875-82]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (14 September 1993)
Summary:

Thanks for two German letters about translations, which he has answered. The enclosed one contains a proposal for CD’s correspondent to bring out a translation of a very successful German book, and must be answered by the correspondent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Jan [1875-81]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

Turns down an offer to undertake a German translation of one of his works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 January 1875
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 161-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
26 January 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/14, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Burt Green Wilder
Date:
26 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (Burt Green Wilder papers, 1841–1925: Box 1, Folder 5)
Summary:

CD expresses his high opinion of BGW’s papers. Thinks one on brains of dogs particularly valuable ["Anatomical papers on brain of dogs", Rep. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1874)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A48–53
Summary:

Sends suggestions for observations on glacial phenomena that might be made on the [Polar] expedition [of H. M. S. Alert and Discovery, 1875–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
[28 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254 ff. 81–2)
Summary:

The review of EBT’s book ["Primitive Man: Tylor and Lubbock"] in the Quarterly Review [137: 40–77] last year contained a false and malicious attack on CD’s son George. CD knows it was written by St George Mivart. CD wishes to take every opportunity to say how false a man he considers him to be.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 165
Summary:

Asks AG to forward [unspecified] enclosure to Chauncey Wright.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
29 January 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/15, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society