From Louis Grenier to John Murray 22 December 1875
Summary
Encloses a letter to be forwarded to CD [see 10212].
| Author: | Louis Grenier |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 474 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10211 |
From Louis Grenier 22 December 1875
Summary
Asks permission to make a résumé of Insectivorous plants for Société Botanique de Lyon.
| Author: | Louis Grenier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 475 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10212 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1875]
Summary
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 399–400 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10283 |
To Lawson Tait 1 December [1875]
Summary
Abstract sent to the Royal Society. It seems to CD "uncommonly clear and well-done".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10284 |
From W. B. Dawkins 1 December 1875
Summary
Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10285 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1875
Summary
E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 45–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10286 |
From W. R. S. Ralston 2 December 1875
Summary
CD’s letter from Tiflis is not in Russian but Georgian.
| Author: | William Ralston Shedden-Ralston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10287 |
From Francis Darwin [before 8 December 1875]
Summary
Sends Linnean papers.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 8 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10287F |
From Francis Darwin [after 2 December 1875]
Summary
Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 2 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10287G |
From W. R. S. Ralston 3 December 1875
Summary
S. C. Malan, Rector of Broadwindsor, could translate Georgian letter from Tiflis.
| Author: | William Ralston Shedden-Ralston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10288 |
To Quintino Sella 4 December 1875
Summary
Acknowledges QS’s letter [10280f] and the diploma of the Accademia dei Lincei.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Quintino Sella |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | Fondazione Sella – Biella (archivio: carte di Quintino Sella, serie Accademia dei Lincei, m. 6, f. 20, s.f. Charles Darwin) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10288F |
To Thomas Carlyle 4 December 1875
Summary
A letter of congratulation to Thomas Carlyle on his 80th birthday signed by CD and 118 others; to accompany the gift of a commemorative medal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Carlyle |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | National Trust (Carlyle’s House) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10288G |
To August Weismann 6 December 1875
Summary
Comments on AW’s essay [on "Axolotl", Z. Wiss. Zool. 25 (suppl.) (1875): 297–342] with respect to evolutionary reversion. Peloric flowers must also be considered reversion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 345 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10289 |
To W. R. S. Ralston 7 December [1875]
Summary
Snow has caused postponement of trip to London. Will inform WR when he arrives.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ralston Shedden-Ralston |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Bradford Galleries (dealers) (1992) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10289F |
From Archibald Geikie 7 December 1875
Summary
Asks for CD to add his name to James Croll’s application to the Royal Society of London.
| Author: | Archibald Geikie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | Haslemere Educational Museum (LD-8-885-P351) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10289G |
From Arthur Nicols 8 December 1875
Summary
He will repeat his experiments on the cat’s sense of smell.
The intelligence of rats is shown by their gnawing through lead pipes to find water.
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10290 |
To Archibald Geikie 9 December 1875
Summary
CD has signed James Croll’s certificate [of nomination to Royal Society] with real pleasure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Archibald Geikie |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen 524/12 Coll-74/11/12 1. 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10291 |
To T. H. Huxley 10 December [1875]
Summary
Is coming to London. Will call on THH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 325) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10292 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1875]
Summary
Asks JDH to try to come to luncheon if he is in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10293 |
From Samuel Newington 10 December 1875
Summary
Reports on various observations and experiments: a duck–fowl hybrid with queer habits,
three cases of man–dog hybrids,
his interarching vine experiments,
and orange scale.
| Author: | Samuel Newington |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10294 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Galton, Francis | (2) |
| Grenier, Louis | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Ralston, W. R. S.- | (2) |
