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[Morley, John.] 1875. Diderot. Fortnightly Review 18 (1875): 353–98.

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  • … Morley, John. ] 1875. Diderot. …
  • … Fortnightly Review 18 (1875): 353–98. online 23 …

From R. F. Cooke   28 June 1875

Summary

Agrees to price Insectivorous plants at 14s.

Has CD quoted a price for stereotype plates to D. Appleton?

Author:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 June 1875
Classmark:  DAR 171: 458
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10034

Matches: 8 hits

  • … From R.  F.  Cooke   28 June 1875
  • … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
  • … Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 28 June 1875 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … rates would come into effect then (see letter to R.  F.  Cooke, 27 June [1875] and n. 3). …
  • … see letter to R.  F.  Cooke, 27 June [1875] ). CD had asked Cooke to organise production …
  • … for his US publisher, D. Appleton & Co . , in his letter to Cooke of 24 June [1875] . In …
  • … a letter to Cooke of 23 May [1875] , CD had suggested charging £60. …
  • … suggested waiting until after Thursday 1 July 1875 to send foreign presentation copies of …

From Francis Galton   22 September 1875

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Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.

Author:  Francis Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Sept 1875
Classmark:  DAR 105: A80–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10163

Matches: 11 hits

  • … From Francis Galton   22 September 1875
  • … DAR 105: A80–1 Francis Galton London, Rutland Gate, 42 22 Sept 1875 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Insectivorous plants was published in July 1875 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Annabella …
  • … Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 5 (1875–6): 391–406. [Reprint of Galton 1875a. ] …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. Medical directory : The London medical …
  • … 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875. Variation : The variation of animals and …
  • … Dumfries. ) The Misses Macrae (twins. æt 16 in 1875) “There is a congenital flexion at the …
  • … in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in 1874 and 1875, but in 1876 or earlier became assistant …
  • … 30 , 2: 180; see also letter from Francis Galton, 2 June 1875 ). For Galton’s sweetpea …
  • … experiments, see the letters from Francis Galton , 14 April 1875 and …
  • … 2 June 1875 . He published on the experiments in Galton 1877a , 1877b, and 1889, pp. 79–82 …

To G. J. Romanes   17 [December 1875]

Summary

Suggests skin-grafting experiment on birds.

Discusses case of Edwin Ray Lankester; it has aroused his indignation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  17 [Dec 1875]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.481)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10301

Matches: 11 hits

  • … To G.  J.  Romanes   17 [December 1875] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin London, Bryanston St, 2 17 [Dec 1875] George John Romanes …
  • … under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875. …
  • … letter to G. J. Romanes, 24 September [1875] and nn. 5 and 6); CD evidently thought that …
  • … see letter to G. J. Romanes, 18 July 1875 ). Spots and black barbs are types of fancy …
  • … after he had been blackballed at the meeting of 2 December 1875 (see letter to W.   …
  • … T.  Thiselton-Dyer, 16 December [1875] ). CD, Emma Darwin , …
  • … and Elizabeth Darwin were in London from 10 December 1875; they returned to Down …
  • … on Monday 20 December 1875 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Romanes delivered the …
  • … system of medusae at the Royal Society of London on 16 December 1875 ( Romanes 1875b ). He …
  • … outlined his discovery in his letter of 20 July 1875

To G. J. Romanes   26 December 1875

Summary

Sends books.

Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  26 Dec 1875
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.482)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10325

Matches: 6 hits

  • … H. Darwin, 22 December 1875 . …
  • … To G.  J.  Romanes   26 December 1875
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25.482) Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Dec 1875 George John Romanes …
  • … from G. J. Romanes, [before 26 December 1875] . CD’s copy of Haeckel 1869a is in the …
  • … Collection–CUL. See letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 26 December 1875] and n. 4. …
  • … See letter to Francis Galton, 18 December [1875] , and letter from Francis Galton to G. …

To Edward Cardwell   [before 29 April 1875]

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Believes correspondent is interested in how physiologists regard the question of legislating on vivisection. He forwards the sketch of a bill drawn up by physiologists for that purpose.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
Date:  [before 29 Apr 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 97: C17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9908

Matches: 6 hits

  • … send to Cardwell and Lyon Playfair in his letter to R.  B.  Litchfield, [24 April 1875] . …
  • … To Edward Cardwell   [before 29 April 1875] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin unstated [before 29 Apr 1875] Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell …
  • … the letter from Edward Cardwell, 29 April 1875 . Andrew Clark was CD’s physician. Thomas …
  • … the vivisection bill (see letter from T. H. Huxley, 21 April 1875 ). CD probably sent the …
  • … the vivisection bill, printed on 24 April 1875 (DAR 139.17: 32). CD said he was awaiting …

To R. F. Cooke   9 November [1875]

Summary

Climbing plants has sold better than he expected.

Thinks another 1000 of Origin may have to be printed; he has no corrections to make.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:  9 Nov [1875]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 322–3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10252

Matches: 10 hits

  • … To R.  F.  Cooke   9 November [1875] …
  • … 42152 ff. 322–3) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Nov [1875] Robert Francis Cooke John Murray …
  • … D. Appleton & Co . , is that of 11 October 1875, regarding the US edition of Variation 2d …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. Origin 6th ed. : The origin of species by …
  • … under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875. …
  • … appeared in July and was reprinted twice in 1875, making a total of 3000 copies ( Freeman …
  • … Climbing plants 2d ed. was published in the first half of November 1875 ( Publishers’ …
  • … circular 1875, p. 932). See letter to …
  • … R. F. Cooke, 23 October [1875] . Origin 6th ed. was reprinted in 1876; this was the …

From N. A. Severtsov   25 September [1875]

Summary

Sends CD the 2d part of his travels into the Tien-shan mountains [Erforschung des Thian-Schan Gebirgs-Systems (1875)].

Has written a paper on the ranges and systematics of wild sheep and on modifications probably resulting from competition with domestic sheep, which he wishes to translate into English and would like to see appended to Variation.

Discusses sexual selection in thrushes; it apparently modifies one species into another.

Author:  Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Sept [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 143
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10172

Matches: 12 hits

  • … From N.  A.  Severtsov   25 September [1875] …
  • … DAR 177: 143 Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov Berlin 25 Sept [1875] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Erforschung des Thian-Schan Gebirgs-Systems (1875)]. Has written a paper on the ranges and …
  • … The year is established by the reference to Sewerzow 1875 (see n. 2, below). …
  • … Henry Eeles Dresser visited Down with Severtsov on 13 September 1875 (see letter to H. …
  • … E. Dresser, [10 September 1875] , and letter to G. …
  • … H. Darwin, 13 September [1875] ). There are copies of both parts …
  • … Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL ( Sewerzow 1875 ; the text is in German). The pages have …
  • … N. [Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov. ] 1875. N. Sewerzow’s Erforschung des Thian-Schan- …
  • … über wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem Gesammtgebiete der Geographie 9 (1875): no. …
  • … 42, 10 (1875–6): no. 43. Variation 2d ed. : The variation of animals and plants under …
  • … 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875. Variation : The variation of animals and …

From G. H. Darwin   [26 October 1875]

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Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.

Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [26 Oct 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10226

Matches: 11 hits

  • … From G.  H.  Darwin   [26 October 1875] …
  • … DAR 210.2: 49 George Howard Darwin Cambridge [26 Oct 1875] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … see letter to G. H. Darwin, [25 October 1875] ). During Francis’s visit (see n. 4, above), …
  • … people ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 26 October 1875 (DAR 239.23: 1.35)). …
  • … the relationship between this letter and the letter to G. H. Darwin, [25 October 1875] . …
  • … In 1875, the Tuesday after 25 October was 26 October. CD asked George to send a copy of …
  • … letter to G. H. Darwin, [25 October 1875] ). George probably refers to equations devised …
  • … Cambridge for three days, returning to Down on 25 October 1875 ( letter from Emma Darwin …
  • … to Leonard Darwin, 26 October 1875 (DAR 239.23: 1.35)). Francis was studying the ability …
  • … of the awns of the seeds (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 October [1875] and n. 5). …
  • … 242), George arrived on Saturday 30 October 1875. There is no mention of a visit to Down …

To W. D. Whitney   1 September 1875

Summary

Regrets he will not return home in time to see WDW.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Dwight Whitney
Date:  1 Sept 1875
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 23, folder 619 1875 Sep. 1-11)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10144

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To W.  D.  Whitney   1 September 1875
  • … to W. D. Whitney, 21 December 1875 . The handwriting of the letter is probably George …
  • … Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 23, folder 619 1875 Sep. 1- …
  • … 11) Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 1 Sept 1875 William Dwight Whitney …
  • … Southampton from 28 August to 11 September 1875 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). No letter …
  • … States, about a visit to Down in September 1875 has been found. Whitney had been invited …
  • … or later (see letter to W.  D.  Whitney, [8 May 1875] , letter from Emma Darwin to W.   …
  • … D.  Whitney, 9 May [1875] , and letter from G. H. Darwin …

To R. B. Litchfield   [24 April 1875]

Summary

On the petition by scientists regarding vivisection and plans for presenting it in Parliament.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:  [24 Apr 1875]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 58373)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9924

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To R.  B.  Litchfield   [24 April 1875] …
  • … Library (Add MS 58373) Charles Robert Darwin Down [24 Apr 1875] Richard Buckley Litchfield …
  • … were interested in the bill (see letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 21  April 1875 and n. 1). …
  • … draft of the vivisection bill, dated 24 April 1875, is in DAR 139.17: 32. Burdon Sanderson …
  • … J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, 23 April [1875] and n. 5). John Lubbock was MP for Maidstone. …
  • … letter, the letter from J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, 23 April [1875] , and the letter to R.   …
  • … B.  Litchfield, 24 April [1875] . Litchfield was working with CD to prepare a vivisection …
  • … to J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, [11 April 1875] ). CD had learned from Thomas Henry Huxley …

From G. H. Darwin to James T. Knowles   8 February 1875

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Letter [to editor of Contemp. Rev.] saying that W. D. Whitney would like to reply to Max Müller. Hopes space can be given him.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  James Thomas Knowles
Date:  8 Feb 1875
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 46
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9846

Matches: 12 hits

  • … From G.  H.  Darwin to James T.  Knowles   8 February 1875
  • … 210.2: 46 George Howard Darwin Trinity College, Cambridge 8 Feb 1875 James Thomas Knowles …
  • … University Press. Max Müller, Friedrich. 1875. My reply to Mr. Darwin. Contemporary Review …
  • … Trinity College | Cambridge Feb.  8. 1875 Dear Sir, Prof. Whitney has written to my Father …
  • … My reply to Mr.  Darwin’, appeared in the Contemporary Review , January 1875 ( Max …
  • … Müller 1875 ). For more on the background of the article and the views of those involved, …
  • … study of language ( Whitney 1867 ); see Max Müller 1875 , p.  307). The publisher of the …
  • … Row, London ( Post Office London directory 1875). His original company, Strahan & Co. , …
  • … London: Trübner. Whitney, William Dwight. 1875. Are languages institutions? Contemporary …
  • … reply, ‘Are languages institutions? ’, appeared in the Contemporary Review , April 1875 ( …
  • … Whitney 1875 ). Whitney’s letter to Knowles has not been found. This letter from George to …
  • … letter to G.  H.  Darwin, 10 [February 1875] . Max Müller wrote that he had not previously …

To D. F. Nevill   15 July [1875]

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Sends his autograph

and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].

Would be pleased to see DN at Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  15 July [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 122
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10068

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To D.  F.  Nevill   15 July [1875] …
  • … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
  • … 122 Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 July [1875] Dorothy Fanny Walpole/Dorothy Fanny Nevill …
  • … and the letter from D.  F.  Nevill, 2 July [1875] . Nevill had thanked CD for his gift of …
  • … plants and had requested his autograph (letters from D.  F.  Nevill, 2 July [1875] and …
  • … 13 [July 1875] . CD next made an …
  • … visit to London from 10 to 20 December 1875, but there is no record of his meeting Nevill …

To T. H. Huxley   21 May 1875

Summary

CD believes Playfair’s bill would not restrict demonstrations under anaesthetic.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  21 May 1875
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 316)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9986

Matches: 10 hits

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   21 May 1875
  • … Archives (Huxley 5: 316) Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 May 1875 Thomas Henry Huxley …
  • … The parliamentary session ran until 13 August 1875 ( Hansard parliamentary debates 3d ser. …
  • … vol. 226 (1875), cols. 887–8). …
  • … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. May 21. 1875 My dear Huxley I have had nothing to do …
  • … See letter from T. H. Huxley, 19 May 1875 . A bill to regulate vivisection had been drawn …
  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 14 April [1875] ). CD stayed with Richard and Henrietta Emma …
  • … into the House of Commons (see letter from J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, 6 May [1875] ). See …
  • … letter to Lyon Playfair, 15 May [1875] and n. 3. CD’s copy of the bill is in DAR 139.17: …
  • … from J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, 6 May [1875] ). CD underlined these words in his copy of …

From T. H. Huxley   19 May 1875

Summary

Lyon Playfair’s bill [on vivisection] is unacceptable to all teachers of physiology. It prohibits dissections for demonstrations to students. He will have to repudiate it. Asks CD’s advice.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 May 1875
Classmark:  DAR 166: 340
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9985

Matches: 11 hits

  • … From T.  H.  Huxley   19 May 1875
  • … DAR 166: 340 Thomas Henry Huxley Edinburgh 19 May 1875 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … 1939–40): 210–12). CD quoted this section in his letter to Lyon Playfair, 26 May 1875 . …
  • … 31 Royal Terrace | Edinburgh May 19. 1875 My dear Darwin Playfair has sent a copy of his …
  • … see letter to Lyon Playfair, 15 May [1875] ). Before presenting the bill, Playfair put it …
  • … changes (see letter from Lyon Playfair, 27 May 1875 ). The last printed draft of …
  • … Buckley Litchfield and dated 24 April 1875, stated that scientific experiments could be …
  • … the House of Commons to be printed on 12 May 1875 is in DAR 139.17: 23; see also House of …
  • … for the purpose of scientific discovery; 1875 (163) II.167. John Scott Burdon Sanderson …
  • … s bill (see letter from J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, [8 May 1875] ). This was confirmed …
  • … Playfair (see letter from Lyon Playfair, 27 May 1875 ). Huxley was teaching zoology at the …

From J. S. Burdon Sanderson   14 April [1875]

Summary

Agrees that CD should write to Lord Derby to say that a bill on animal experimentation was being prepared and that the government should not comment at this stage. [See 9933.] Ridicules the idea of using inspectors. Distinguishes between dissection and vivisection.

Author:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Apr [1875]
Classmark:  University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-38)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9930A

Matches: 9 hits

  • … From J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson   14 April [1875] …
  • … Sanderson, 1st baronet London, Queen Anne St, 49 14 Apr [1875] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … S.  Burdon Sanderson, 12  April [1875] ). See also letter from J. …
  • … S. Burdon Sanderson, 12 April [1875] . CD had planned …
  • … meet with Thomas Henry Huxley on 12 April 1875 to discuss the vivisection bill (see letter …
  • … to J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, [11 April 1875] ). On the proposed licensing and inspection …
  • … J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, 12 April [1875] ). CD was considering whether to call personally …
  • … see letter to J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, [11 April 1875] and n. 6, and letter from J.   …
  • … 49 Queen Anne St April 14 th 1875 Dear M r Darwin, I received your letter this morning. I …

To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   1 May [1875]

Summary

CD is delighted to hear that JSBS’s exertions and labour will probably be rewarded by success. He has had a note from Playfair who, like Lubbock, thinks the title and preamble [of the proposed bill] "had better wear a more humanitarian aspect".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:  1 May [1875]
Classmark:  University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9963

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson   1 May [1875] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 May [1875] John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet …
  • … in drafting the bill (see letter to R.  B.  Litchfield, [24 April 1875] and n. 3). …
  • … CD’s daughter Henrietta Emma, visited Down on 1 May 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … See letter from Edward Cardwell, 29 April 1875 . …
  • … the letter from Edward Cardwell, 29 April 1875 . Burdon Sanderson had worked with CD to …
  • … to regulate vivisection (see letter from J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, 30 April [1875] ). See …
  • … letter from Lyon Playfair, 29 April 1875 . For John Lubbock’s comments, see the letter to …
  • … R.  B.  Litchfield, [24 April 1875] . Richard Buckley Litchfield had provided legal …

From R. L. Tait   17 June [1875]

Summary

Insectivorous plants: the means and site of absorption of digested animal matter. [Newspaper clipping enclosed.]

Author:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 June [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10022

Matches: 12 hits

  • … From R. L. Tait   17 June [1875] …
  • … DAR 178: 12 Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait Birmingham 17 June [1875] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … From Lawson Tait   17 June [1875]   regime of a new Bashaw.   This sounds funny in a …
  • … and the letter from Lawson Tait, 16 June [1875] . The newspaper clipping was pasted to the …
  • … men’s tales ( [Marsh-Caldwell] 1834 ), which was reissued in June 1875 (see Publishers’ …
  • … circular , 1 July 1875, p. 462), following her death in 1874. Tait’s lecture to the …
  • … included material quoted from CD’s letter to him of [13–15 March 1875], was delivered …
  • … on 5 April 1875 and summarised in the …
  • … Birmingham Daily Post , 8 April 1875, p. 6. …
  • … It was reprinted in Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip , June 1875, pp. 126–7 ( …
  • … see letter from Lawson Tait, 12 March [1875] ). Dionaea muscipula is the Venus fly trap. …
  • … see first letter from Lawson Tait, 12 June [1875] ). Tait evidently hypothesised that the …

To J. D. Hooker   25 February [1875]

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CD on his memory of Lyell. Deeply rejoices that he is to be buried in Westminster Abbey.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  25 Feb [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 379–81
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9873

Matches: 10 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   25 February [1875] …
  • … DAR 95: 379–81 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Feb [1875] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … this letter and the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 February 1875] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [24 February 1875] . Hooker had written about how deeply …
  • … of Charles Lyell , who died on 22 February 1875. CD first met Lyell on 29 October 1836 ( …
  • … letter to A.  B.  Buckley, 23 February 1875  and n.  2). Hooker’s wife, Frances Harriet …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 February 1875] ). Hooker had arranged to have Lyell buried …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 February 1875] ). CD’s letter to Katherine Murray Lyell …
  • … but had not informed Hooker (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 February 1875] ). …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 17 February 1875  and n.  7). Hooker was planning to visit …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   26 October [1875]

Summary

Wants Imantophyllum for crossing experiments.

Is glad WTT-D thinks George King’s notes worth sending to the Linnean Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  26 Oct [1875]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 37–8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10227

Matches: 12 hits

  • … To W.  T.  Thiselton-Dyer   26 October [1875] …
  • … 1873–81: 37–8) Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Oct [1875] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
  • … Theodor Fischer. Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner. 1875. On the classification and sexual …
  • … of thallophytes’. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science n.s. 15 (1875): 295–326. ] …
  • … to W.  T.  Thiselton-Dyer, 22 October 1875 . No letter from Thiselton-Dyer mentioning …
  • … to W.  T.  Thiselton-Dyer, 22 October 1875 and n. 1. CD had already asked Thiselton-Dyer …
  • … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 23 October 1875 and n. 4. CD donated his copy of Ludwig …
  • … reproduction of thallophytes ( Thiselton-Dyer 1875 ). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet …
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  • … nurseryman . In his letter of 23 October 1875 , Joseph Dalton Hooker had promised to send …
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Origin is 160; Darwin's 1875 letters now online

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To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species, the full transcripts and footnotes of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1875…

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  • … of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first …
  • … it behaved in similar ways to the Drosera secretion. In 1875, Klein was a very controversial …
  • … I liked the man .’   Other highlights from the 1875 letters include: I am very …
  • … of my books.  ( Letter to R. F. Cooke, 29 June [1875] ) Darwin wrote this to his …
  • … new Editions .  ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 August [1875] ) Darwin also completed …
  • … this possible  ( Letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January [1875] ) Agitation for a law …
  • … made false statements  ( Letter to John Lubbock, 8 April 1875 ) Relations between the …
  • … always succeeds  ( Letter to G. H. Darwin, 13 October [1875] ) Darwin wrote …
  • … help his father and brothers with scientific instruments: in 1875, he designed a hygrometer. …
  • … his great works ( Letter to A. B. Buckley, 23 February 1875 ) The year was saddened …
  • … in my time  ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, [12 December 1875] ) In December, Darwin was …

Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings

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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…

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  • … during his periods of severe illness. Yet on 15 January 1875 , Darwin confessed to his close …
  • … mouthpiece of ‘Jesuitical Rome’ ( Academy , 2 January 1875, pp. 16–17). ‘How grandly you have …
  • … again & again’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January 1875 ). Darwin had also considered …
  • … learned of Klein’s testimony from Huxley on 30 October 1875 : ‘I declare to you I did not believe …
  • … carried out on live animals in laboratories. In January 1875, he received details of experiments by …
  • … printing an additional 250 ( letter to John Murray, 3 May 1875 ). In the event, the book …
  • … in a review of the book in the Academy , 24 July 1875, by Ellen Frances Lubbock: ‘in Utricularia …
  • … born (letter from E. F. Lubbock, [after 2 July] 1875).   Back over old ground …
  • … which I had long wished to see,’ he wrote on 21 April 1875 , ‘and now that I have seen it, I am …
  • … do a good deal of “hammering”,’ he wrote on 14 July 1875 . ‘I shall not let Pangenesis alone …
  • … his own theory of heredity in a series of articles in 1875 and 1876, based partly on his studies of …
  • … & more’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [ c . February 1875?] ). By May, having finished …
  • … proofmaniac’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875] ). But Francis also found …
  • … on astronomy, or the Duke of Wellington on art (Max Müller 1875, pp. 305–7). The debate between Max …
  • … researches (Carus trans. 1875b; the series is Carus trans. 1875–87). More controversial was the …
  • … Darwin wrote: ‘An anonymous compliment | received Feb 16th 1875’.   The great and the good …
  • … Insectivorous plants ( letter to D. F. Nevill, 15 July [1875] ). Such visitors from the upper …
  • … I can talk to anyone’ ( letter to John Lubbock, 3 May [1875] ). Finally it was arranged for the …
  • … of twining plants (letters from Lawson Tait, 16 March [1875] and 27 March [1875] ). ‘As I am …
  • … Nepenthes & will soon publish’, Darwin warned on 17 July 1875 . But Tait was undaunted. He …
  • … Thiselton-Dyer ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 7 July 1875 ). It was Thiselton-Dyer who …
  • … was appropriate for so distinguished a nominee. Already in 1875, Lankester had been elected a fellow …
  • … of Lyell’s failing health from Hooker in 1874 and January 1875. On 22 February, he was notified of …
  • … ‘high type’ ( letter from Woodward Emery, 17 September 1875 ).  …

Darwin and vivisection

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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…

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  • … the Trichinae’ (letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January [1875] ). Darwin also worried that any bill …
  • … their own petition (letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 January 1875 ). In the event, Darwin became …
  • … within Darwin’s family. In his letter of 14 January 1875 to Huxley, Darwin mentioned the effect …
  • … (letter from Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe, 14 January [1875] ). In the course of the public …
  • … to Huxley (letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 12 February 1875 ). Darwin was in London from 31 …
  • … sketch for a petition (letter from T. H. Huxley, [4 April 1875] ). This was evidently passed back …
  • … on 7 April (letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 7 April [1875] ), and circulating it to others in …
  • … were made (letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 10 April 1875 ), and another version was prepared …
  • … of Lords (see letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, [11 April 1875] ). He was still unsure whether …
  • … Royal Society of London (letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 April [1875] ). The next day he wrote to …
  • … else you think best’ (letter to E. H. Stanley, 15 April 1875 ). After further consultations, a …
  • … are evident in Darwin’s correspondence in April and May 1875. The initial petition (DAR …
  • … order of the clauses. In the revised sketch, dated 24 April 1875, the penalty for unlawful …
  • … at this alteration (letter from T. H. Huxley, 19 May 1875 , letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, …
  • … corrections had been made (letter to Lyon Playfair, 26 May 1875 , and letter from Lyon Playfair, …
  • … ( Hansard Parliamentary Debates , 3d ser., vol. 224 (1875), col. 794). A Royal Commission was a …
  • … the RSPCA. The commission met between 5 June and 15 December 1875, examining fifty-three witnesses, …

I never trusted Drosera: From E. F. Lubbock, [after 2 July] 1875

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  Francis Neary has set his favourite letter to music (with additional vocals and bass by Deen Manning). The satirical verses were sent to Darwin by Ellen Frances Lubbock in 1875 after the publication of his book on insectivorous plants. They…

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  • … verses were sent to Darwin by Ellen Frances Lubbock in 1875 after the publication of his book on …

Animals, ethics, and the progress of science

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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…

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  • … but inconclusive (see letter from G. J. Romanes, 14 July 1875 ). Eventually Romanes, who had …
  • … physiologists’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 18 July 1875 ). Darwin was concerned that the method be …
  • … let loose from hell’ ( letter to F. B. Cobbe, [14 January 1875] ). Darwin’s involvement in …
  • … position most frankly in a letter to Henrietta, 4 January [1875] . I have long thought …
  • … present agitation. ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January [1875] ) Darwin worked closely …
  • … death in this country. ( letter To T. H. Huxley, 14 January 1875 ) Legislation was passed …

Cross and self fertilisation

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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…

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  • … on this subject. ( To J. V. Carus   7 February 1875 ). In fact, Darwin had planned a new set of …
  • … fact seems to me all important.’ ( To Asa Gray, 30 May [1875] ). In earlier papers on plants with …
  • … any material aid to plants in fertilization?’ (Meehan 1875) prompted Darwin to inform him that he …
  • … to plants to intercross’ ( To Thomas Meehan, 3 October 1875 ). Hermann Müller had also read Meehan …
  • … obscure this matter’ ( From Hermann Müller, 23 October 1875 ). The Italian botanists were …
  • … plants that crossing was of little importance (Pedicino 1875; Comes 1875). Darwin was philosophical, …
  • … Kölreuter’s papers’ ( To Hermann Müller, 26 October 1875 ). Darwin’s copy of Johann Kölreuter’s …
  • … in the conditions’ ( To Ernst Haeckel, 13 November 1875 ). He added on a darker note, ‘What I …
  • … papers in the same book ( To J. V. Carus, 25 December 1875 ). As Darwin continued to write …

Language: key letters

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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…

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  • … 10194: Max Müller, Friedrich to Darwin, C. R., 13 Oct [1875] For Müller, human and animal …
  • … Letter 9887: Dawkins, W. B. to Darwin, C. R., 14 Mar 1875 The relationship between language …

Thomas Burgess

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As well as its complement of sailors, the Beagle also carried a Royal Marine sergeant and seven marines, one of whom was Thomas Burgess. When the Beagle set sail he was twenty one, having been born in October 1810 to Israel and Hannah Burgess of Lancashire…

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  • … about him again until he opened a letter from him in March 1875 . It was written from Rainow, a …

Movement in Plants

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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…

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  • … preparing a second edition, which eventually appeared in 1875. In the same year, Darwin published a …
  • … in a single volume ( letter to J. V. Carus, 7 February 1875 ). While  Climbing plants  focused …

Diagrams and drawings in letters

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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…

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  • … sketch showing his system of selection,  21 May 1875 J. G. Joyce's report of …

4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1

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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…

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  • … book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of …
  • … forms. A writer in the Gardeners’ Chronicle in March 1875 remarked that Darwin had ‘invested …
  • … Sambourne 
 date of creation December 1875 
 computer-readable date …
  • … references and bibliography Punch vol. 69 (11 December 1875), p. 242. Gardeners’ Chronicle …

Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life

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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time.  And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth.  All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…

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  • … vol. 23, letter from Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, 20 September 1875 ). He began to compile an account …
  • … end of the previous year. He had been incensed in December 1875 when the zoologist Edwin Ray …
  • … The controversial issue had occupied Darwin for much of 1875. In January 1876, a Royal Commission …
  • … to Insectivorous plants , which was published in July 1875, with a US edition published later …
  • … in February 1876 (despite bearing a publication date of 1875), Darwin must have been gratified by …
  • … Darwin, who had communicated the paper to the society in 1875 at Tait’s request, with the ‘awful job …

Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year

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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…

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  • … not retract his criticism in his own second edition (Dana 1875, p. 274). Descent …
  • … (Correspondence vol. 23, from J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1875] ), preferring to attack Mivart in …
  • … Anthropogenie  in the  Academy   (2 January 1875; see Appendix V, pp. 644–5) . The affair …
  • … wrote a polite, very formal letter to Mivart on 12 January 1875 , refusing to hold any future …
  • … and a second French edition was published in January 1875 ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald , 4 February …

Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions

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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...

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  • … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …

Climbing Plants

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…

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  • … expressed. The paper was little noticed, but when in 1875 it was corrected and published as a …
  • … Letter 10214 - Darwin to T. H. Huxley, 23 October 1875 Darwin writes to his good …

Vivisection: Darwin's testimony to the Royal Commission

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Wednesday, 3rd November 1875. Mr. Charles Darwin called in and examined. 4661. (Chairman.) We are very sensible of your kindness in coming at some sacrifice to yourself to express your opinions to the Commission. We attribute it to the great…

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  • … Wednesday, 3rd November 1875. Mr. Charles Darwin called in and examined. …

Vivisection: first sketch of the bill

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Strictly Confidential Mem: This print is only a first sketch. It is being now recast with a new & more simple form – but the substance of the proposed measure may be equally well seen in this draft. R.B.L. | 2 586 Darwin and vivisection …

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  • … cited for all purposes as “The Experiments on Animals Act, 1875.” SCHEDULE. …
  • … under the provisions of “The Experiments on Animals Act, 1875,” empowering me to make experiments on …
  • … under the provisions of the Experiments on Animals Act, 1875, that the above-named M.N. is enaged in …
  • … under the provisions of the Experiments on Animals Act, 1875, accompanied by Certificate, such as is …

1.6 Ouless oil portrait

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< Back to Introduction The first commissioned oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Walter William Ouless, who was given sittings at Down House in March 1875. The idea for such a portrait came from Darwin’s son William, who as far back as 1872 had…

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  • … Ouless, who was given sittings at Down House in March 1875. The idea for such a portrait came from …
  • … the resulting picture was shown at the Royal Academy in May 1875, the Times reviewer noted …
  • … Walter William Ouless 
 date of creation March 1875 
 computer-readable date …
  • … and letter from Charles Darwin to Joseph Hooker, 30 March [1875], DCP-LETT-9905. ‘The Royal Academy’ …

St George Jackson Mivart

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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…

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  • … to an end. The dispute was not resolved until early 1875, and, even then, not to Darwin’s complete …
  • … from J. D. Hooker, 29 December 1874 ). By January 1875, Mivart had still not made any …
  • … book Anthropogenie , in the Academy , 2 January 1875. ‘Possessed by a blind animosity against …
  • … (Mivart was a Catholic convert.) On 12 January 1875 , Darwin finally wrote to Mivart, …
  • … article in a letter published in the Academy , 16 January 1875, p. 66, signed, ‘The Quarterly …

Insectivorous Plants

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Plants that consume insects Darwin began his work with insectivorous plants in the mid 1860s, though his findings would not be published until 1875. In his autobiography Darwin reflected on the delay that…

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  • … mid 1860s, though his findings would not be published until 1875. In his autobiography Darwin …
  • … 1 The resulting volume, Insectivorous Plants (1875), was one in a series of works in which …
  • … SOURCES Books Darwin, Charles. 1875. Insectivorous Plants. London: John …
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