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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:
Thomas Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: 51
Summary:
Encloses draft bill about vivisection; CD and friends may have influence enough to get it introduced in Commons or Lords; TA and the Cruelty Society do not. The Society, however, can pay for preparation of bill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: 52
Summary:
Encloses extract which suggests that CD and friends oppose any restriction on vivisection; asks CD to state his principles. Another bill is being sketched for Cruelty Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Archibald Liversidge
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 August 1875
Source of text:
RB MSS M199, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Anton Bachmaier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 10
Summary:
Asks for information about alleged regeneration of amputated human fingers and toes. Mentions observations on regeneration of salamander extremities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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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From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
23 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1897
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Balfour, G. W.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
22 February 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 316
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Spencer Baynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 100
Summary:
Asks CD to write short article on breeds and breeding for new edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Huxley has suggested natural history topics to be covered, and recommended CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 129
Summary:
Sends reference to Codrington paper on gravels ["The superficial deposits of the south of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 26 (1870): 3–28]. Comments on local gravels in railway cutting and the violent agency of their removal from hills.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 130
Summary:
Reports observations of T. C. Renshaw on how some flowers of the Tritoma catch bees and other insects. Thinks it may be a contrivance against unbidden visitors, as insects caught are not consumed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 134
Summary:
The unreliability of the work of J.-B. Legrain on consanguineous marriages [Recherches critiques et experimentales relatives aux marriages consanguins, extrait du Bull. Acad. R. Med. Belg. 2d ser. 9, no. 3].
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 144
Summary:
Is delighted CD plans to call on him.
Wants to discuss botanical work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edouard Bergson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 173
Summary:
Asks CD’s opinion on whether there is a fundamental difference between the "primitive forms" of animals and plants. Mentions and rejects various views of major distinguishing characteristics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 175
Summary:
Fairy-rings grow because the fungal spawn radiates outwards then dies off at the centre as it becomes exhausted. The verdure of the grass depends upon the decay of the fungus supplying nitrogenous manure. Rings are formed mainly in upland pastures poor in nitrogenous matter. Gives examples of woodland fungi that form rings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand
To:
Royal Society
Date:
19 August 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/12, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 181
Summary:
At work on new editions of his books against CD’s theory [La teoria dell’uomo-scimmia (1864); La théorie darwinienne (1874)]. Had hoped to receive CD’s comments, as earlier promised; they would still be useful.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 182
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s reception of his book. The evidence GGB has assembled has convinced him of independent creation. The future will say whether he or CD is correct.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
