From J. D. Hooker 17 April 1875
Summary
On pitchers of Dischidia and insects found in them.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 26–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9936 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 March 1875
Summary
No action on assistance yet, but has had a private note from Disraeli asking whether Thiselton-Dyer is his recommendation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9891 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson [11 April 1875]
Summary
"We have not a day to lose if our [Vivisection] Bill or our petition is to do any good". Reports on the activities of the opposition and the attitude of politicians on the subject. Believes a meeting with a minister should be arranged and thinks Lord Derby would be a good man. "All will depend on some half-dozen or 9 or 12 men agreeing on the bill."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [11 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9923 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 January 1875
Summary
Is on the eve of another row with the Office of Works about his application for assistance.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 6–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9815 |
To J. V. Carus 7 February 1875
Summary
Thanks JVC for errata [in Descent, 2d ed.].
Discusses work in progress and publication plans.
Will be pleased to receive concluding volume of JVC’s Zoologie [see 8531].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1875 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 131–132) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9844 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 December [1875]
Summary
Discusses blackballing of E. R. Lankester [at Linnean Society]. Reports on his attempts to persuade other Fellows to support Lankester’s election.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 16 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 50–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10299 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 2 December 1875 ). Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne and John Dillwyn Llewelyn . Philip Lutley Sclater was secretary, Osbert Salvin was a council member, and Alfred Newton and Robert Hudson were vice-presidents of the Zoological Society of London ; they were all fellows of the Linnean Society . The Philosophical Club was established as a social club of the Royal Society of London in 1847, and was dedicated to scientific discussion. Sclater, a member from 1862, had served as treasurer between 1869 and 1872 ( …
To C. E. Norton 7 October 1875
Summary
Comments on the sudden death of Chauncey Wright.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1595) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10185 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, [8–10 September 1868] ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Darwins saw the Nortons several times during their stay. In May 1875, Leonard Darwin had visited the Norton family in Boston on his return journey from the transit of Venus expedition in New Zealand; he mentioned meeting Sara Price Ashburner Sedgwick, the sister of Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton , who had died in 1872 ( …
To J. D. Hooker 21 October [1875]
Summary
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 397–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10209 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 14 October 1875 and n. 4). Horace Darwin’s hygrometer is described in F. Darwin 1876c , pp. 155–6. Stipa : needlegrass. CD’s annotated copy of Henry Watts’s Dictionary of chemistry is in the Darwin Library–Down (see Marginalia 1: 195–6). CD’s copy consists of the first three volumes of the second edition ( Watts 1872– …
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| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Norton, C. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Norton, C. E. | (1) |
