To ? 22 June [1875–81]
Summary
Sends signed photo of himself.
Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 22 June [1875-81] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10544 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 June 1875
Summary
Rejoices at [Thiselton-Dyer’s] appointment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 June 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 388 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10026 |
To Lawson Tait 13 June [1875]
Summary
RLT’s observations come too late, as CD’s book on Droseraceae has been printed.
Reports on his observations of ferment in secretions in Drosera rotundifolia and Drosophyllum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 13 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10017 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … see Correspondence vol. 22, letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, …
To R. F. Cooke 24 June [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants ready for publication. Asks price. Suggests advertisements in Nature and Gardeners’ Chronicle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
| Date: | 24 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 338–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10028 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … example, Correspondence vol. 22, letter from D. Appleton & …
From Lawson Tait 16 June [1875]
Summary
Is waiting impatiently for the appearance of CD’s book [Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10020 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … principles of plants. [Read 22 May 1879. ] Proceedings of …
To W. C. Marshall 9 June [1875–81]
Summary
Asks questions about earthworms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
| Date: | 9 June [1875-81] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11549 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … see Correspondence vol. 22, letter from W. C. Marshall, 5 …
From T. H. Huxley 5 June 1875
Summary
Playfair "disgusted at our pronunciamentos against the Bill". Burdon Sanderson and William Sharpey agreed to it. THH feels he must serve on Vivisection Commission.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 June 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 341 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10010 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … vivisection was constituted on 22 June 1875 with Huxley as …
From Otto Zacharias 3 June 1875
Summary
Intends to set up a biological periodical called “Darwinia” to spread and popularise Darwin’s theories; hopes CD may contribute a few words to the opening issue.
| Author: | Otto Zacharias |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 June 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 184: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10008 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letter from Albert Wigand, …
From J. D. Hooker 20 June 1875
Summary
Thiselton-Dyer’s appointment has come.
Wants to discuss insectivorous plants and get some experiments going.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 30–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10025 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 16: 317–22. …
To Lawson Tait 4 June [1875]
Summary
CD’s observations on the power of movement and transmission of motor impulses in plants. If RLT succeeds with the tails of mice, it will be "a beautiful little discovery"; CD will enjoy it the more "because some German sneered at natural selection and instanced the tail of the mouse" [see 10013].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 4 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10009 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … principles of plants. [Read 22 May 1879. ] Proceedings of …
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Tait, Lawson | (1) |
| Zacharias, Otto | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Tait, Lawson | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Marshall, W. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Tait, Lawson | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
