To Linnean Society 1 January [1875]
Summary
Asks permission to republish his climbing plants paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] in a corrected form [Climbing plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 1 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10004 |
From W. D. Fox to [G. H. Darwin] [1875–80]
Summary
Sends date of his mother’s death – 7 Apr 1859.
Was completely mystified by conjuring performance of [John Nevil] Maskelyne.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [1875–80] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13810 |
To Asa Gray 29 January [1875]
Summary
Asks AG to forward [unspecified] enclosure to Chauncey Wright.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 29 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13813 |
To ? 31 [January 1875–82]
Summary
[Provides directions for travel to Down by train.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 Jan [1875-82] |
Classmark: | Romero de Tejada 1982, p. 150; Museo Nacional de Etnología [now Antropología], Madrid |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889A |
From Alpheus Hyatt 8 January [1875]
Summary
Encloses report on his paper "Old age characteristics among ammonites", [Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 17 (1875): 236–41].
Stability of long inherited characters. Dependence of some recently acquired characters on the environment.
Author: | Alpheus Hyatt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 358 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9233 |
From Francis Darwin [1875?]
Summary
Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1875?] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9791F |
To F. J. Cohn 1 January 1875
Summary
Asks whether he might copy two of FJC’s drawings of Aldrovanda. He would like to have a proof of the plate for two woodcuts to be used in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 1 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9795A |
To Daniel Oliver 1 January [1875]
Summary
Returning the plants DO had sent him from Kew
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 1 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9795F |
From Octavius March [1875]
Summary
Wonders if it is possible that the couvade had its origin in an early habit of the male sex to take part in the nourishment of the offspring.
Author: | Octavius March |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1875] |
Classmark: | H. C. March 1883, p. 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9795G |
To Octavius March [1875]
Summary
His opinion of the couvade.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Octavius March |
Date: | [1875] |
Classmark: | March 1883, p. 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9795H |
From Daniel Oliver 2 January 1875
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9796 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 January [1875]
Summary
Disapproves of Huxley’s article [review of Ernst Haeckel’s Anthropogenie] in Academy [7 (1875): 16–18].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9797 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1875]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 363–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9798 |
To H. E. Litchfield 4 January [1875]
Summary
Describes his views on vivisection. Cannot sign petition of F. P. Cobbe, with its attack on Rudolf Virchow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 4 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9799 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 January 1875
Summary
Huxley strongly dissuades JDH from writing to Mivart because of his Presidency of Royal Society. JDH will hold his letter until he hears what Bentham says.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 2–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9800 |
To F. B. Goodacre 5 January 1875
Summary
CD would be pleased to have FBG’s essay dedicated to him but fears that he will be unable to give any assistance towards FBG’s ‘excellent scheme’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
Date: | 5 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9801 |
To Friedrich Max Müller 5 January 1875
Summary
Has read FMM’s article in Contemporary Review [25 (1875): 305–26].
Never suspected FMM was responsible for the Quarterly Review article ["Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77]; knows it was written by Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Max Müller |
Date: | 5 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 89, October 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9802 |
To Daniel Oliver 6 January [1875]
Summary
CD’s observations [for Insectivorous plants] seem to indicate that the same species of Genlisea may bear two kinds of bladders, so he asks for rhizomes and leaves of three species to test this possibility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 6 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9803 |
From Francis Darwin to Daniel Oliver [after 6 January 1875]
Summary
Asks DO to return enclosed post-card with locality of Genlisea aurea specimen that DO had sent.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [after 6 Jan 1875] |
Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9803F |
To T. H. Huxley 6 January 1875
Summary
Thanks THH for his article in the Academy and his defence of CD and G. H. Darwin against Mivart. Still thinks he should write plainly to Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 6 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 313) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9804 |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Brownen, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
Cobbe, F. P. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (54) |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Huxley, T. H. | (6) |
Oliver, Daniel | (4) |
Cobbe, F. P. | (2) |