From Francis Darwin [after 3 June 1875]
Summary
Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 3 June 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007F |
From Francis Darwin [1 September 1875 or later]
Summary
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Sept 1875 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10153F |
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 [13 December 1875]
Summary
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362F |
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 |
From Francis Darwin 1 and 2 May [1875]
Summary
Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird’s Six months in the Sandwich Islands.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 and 2 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9961F |
From Francis Darwin [4 May 1875]
Summary
Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 May 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9961G |
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 A. R. Wallace 7 November 1875
Summary
Thanks for Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Is reading proofs [of Geographical distribution (1876)].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10247 |
From A. R. Wallace 21 July 1875
Summary
Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B121–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10085 |
To Francis Darwin [c. February 1875?]
Summary
Begs FD’s pardon: his notes on Utricularia amethystina are on same page with those on U. nelumbifolia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. Feb 1875?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9219B |
To Francis Darwin 30 April [1875]
Summary
Sends a chapter [of Insectivorous plants]. Never was there anything so dull, but later chapters will be better. Please correct an error on p. 86.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9958B |
From E. A. Clowes 27 August 1875
Summary
R. Cooke has complained about the size of paper on which proofs are printed. He does not know that CD requested a larger size. Asks CD what should be done.
| Author: | Edward Arnott Clowes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 467 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10136 |
From ? [16 February 1875]
Summary
"The learned Darwin states that Moses taught confusion. | For Man, he boldly says, descends from Ape or Monkey – | I, having read his book, am come to this conclusion | Darwin (at least himself) descends from Ass or Donkey."
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 Feb 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 140.4: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9858 |
To Francis Darwin [31 August 1875 or later]
Summary
Sends proofs of Variation [2d ed.] for FD to look over.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Aug 1875 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10178 |
From E. A. Darwin [c. 22 November 1875]
Summary
Calculates ounce and gram equivalents of pints (old and imperial).
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 22 Nov 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 130–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9197 |
From Edward Cardwell 28 October 1875
Summary
CD is asked to testify before a Royal Commission on experiments on living animals.
| Author: | Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10231 |
To Mr S. 11 September [1875–81]
Summary
Sends a photograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1875-81] |
| Classmark: | Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana (VadSlg NL 202: 33: 27q) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9632F |
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 |
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 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (307) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (26) |
| John Murray | (26) |
| Tait, Lawson | (26) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (329) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (20) |
| Unidentified | (15) |
| Tait, Lawson | (14) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (12) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (636) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (43) |
| Tait, Lawson | (40) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (38) |
| John Murray | (35) |
