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To F. J. Cohn   1 January 1875

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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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1874 ( Correspondence vol.  22). CD’s annotated proof copy …

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letter to Daniel Oliver, …
  • … 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letter from Daniel Oliver, …
  • … 1874 ( Correspondence vol. 22); in this genus of corkscrew …

From Daniel Oliver   2 January 1875

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The generic name Genlisea must be preserved for Utriculariaceae with five-part calyces.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Jan 1875
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 115
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9796

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1874 ( Correspondence vol.  22). Oliver had earlier pointed …

To J. D. Hooker   3 January [1875]

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Has not heard from Mivart; CD is convinced he is a hypocrite.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  3 Jan [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 363–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9798

Matches: 4 hits

  • … See Correspondence vol.  22, Appendix V. George James Allman …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  22, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 29  …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  22). CD had been helping Hooker in …
  • … Kew (see Correspondence vol.  22, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, …

From J. D. Hooker   3 January [1875]

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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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … 1874 ( Correspondence vol.  22). Hooker wrote ‘74’ in error. …
  • … 1874 ( Correspondence vol.  22), Hooker had suggested that …
  • … Edinburgh ( Correspondence vol.  22, letter from J.  D.   …

From J. D. Hooker   5 January 1875

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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … see Correspondence vol.  22, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 21  …
  • … see Correspondence vol. 22, letter from T. H. Huxley, 23 …

To Friedrich Max Müller   5 January 1875

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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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … it, see Correspondence vol.  22, Appendix V. G.  H.  Darwin  …

To T. H. Huxley   6 January 1875

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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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Hooker ( Correspondence vol.  22, letter from T.  H.   …

To Daniel Oliver   6 January [1875]

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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … 1874 ( Correspondence vol.  22). In his letter of 19  …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  22, letter from Daniel Oliver, 24  …

From J. D. Hooker   7 January 1875

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Tyndall, T. A. Hirst and Spencer dissuade him from writing to Mivart, but he will let him feel his disapproval.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Jan 1875
Classmark:  DAR 104: 4–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9807

Matches: 3 hits

  • … 70; see Correspondence vol.  22, Appendix V). Tyndall and …
  • … in his letter to Hooker of 22 December 1874 ( Correspondence …
  • … vol.  22). Hooker was president of the Royal Society of …

From Friedrich Max Müller   7 January 1875

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FMM discusses his reply to George Darwin’s article [see 9711].

Intends within a year to place his whole argument before CD when, he hopes, his difficulties connected with the origin of language will be carefully considered by CD.

Author:  Friedrich Max Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Jan 1875
Classmark:  DAR 171: 285
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9808

Matches: 1 hit

  • … see Correspondence vol. 22, Appendix V). Max Müller had …

To J. D. Hooker   8 January [1875]

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JDH would be rash not to follow advice of his friends. [CD’s] wife and George oppose his writing to Mivart.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  8 Jan [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 367–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9809

Matches: 1 hit

  • … see Correspondence vol.  22, Appendix V. Hooker had acquired …

From F. J. Cohn   9 January 1875

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Thanks CD for his letter of 1 Jan 1875. Will send a paper on the genus Volvox ["Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Gattung Volvox", Cohn Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1875) Heft 3: 99–115].

Informs CD of his discoveries of the "house"-building capacity of Difflugia, one of the lowest forms of organism.

Sends CD his writing on Aldrovanda and Utricularia, which he is welcome to use in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].

Has observed a Dionaea fertilised without insect aid.

Author:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Jan 1875
Classmark:  DAR 161: 199
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9810

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1874 ( Correspondence vol. 22, letter from Daniel Oliver, 20 …

To Ernst Haeckel   11 January [1875]

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Thanks for F. v. Hellwald [Culturgeschichte (1875)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:  11 Jan [1875]
Classmark:  Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 33 [9886])
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9811

Matches: 2 hits

  • … December 1874 ( Correspondence vol.  22). In his letter of …
  • … 1874 ( Correspondence vol.  22), Haeckel had offered to send …

To St G. J. Mivart   12 January 1875

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StGJM’s article in the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77] contains wholly false and malicious accusations against CD’s son George. Since StGJM has refused to make any sort of retraction, CD will not hold any future communication with him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  St George Jackson Mivart
Date:  12 Jan 1875
Classmark:  DAR 97: C36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9812

Matches: 1 hit

  • … on CD’s work, see Correspondence vol.  22, Appendix V. …

From J. D. Hooker   14 January 1875

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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … also Correspondence vol.  22, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 8  …
  • … Kew (see Correspondence vol.  22, letter to T.  H.  Farrer, …

From G. J. Romanes   14 January 1875

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Would like to see papers [on potato grafting] mentioned by CD.

CD has doubtless seen case in Gardeners’ Chronicle of vine in which scion has affected the stock [P. Grieve, "Singular sport upon a grape vine", Gard. Chron. (1875): 21].

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Jan 1875
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 19–20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9816

Matches: 1 hit

  • … see Correspondence vol.  22, letters to G.  J.  Romanes, 16  …

To J. D. Hooker   15 January [1875]

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Hopes JDH will beat Sir Douglas Galton.

Continues to work on insectivorous plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 Jan [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 369–71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9818

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1874 ( Correspondence vol.  22). CD had corresponded with …

From J. D. Hooker   16 January 1875

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JDH wins over Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox on assistant secretary for himself.

Has called on Murray and told him Quarterly Review had disgraced itself by attacking George and CD.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Jan 1875
Classmark:  DAR 104: 9–10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9820

Matches: 1 hit

  • … see Correspondence vol.  22, Appendix V.   John Murray was …

From A. G. Dew-Smith   17 January 1875

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Sends a letter from Anton Dohrn, which, if CD approves, will be printed with a list of all donors to the Naples Zoological Station. AGD-S has just returned from a visit to the Station and gives an account of its status. German government has made a grant.

Author:  Albert George Dew-Smith
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1875
Classmark:  DAR 162: 174
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9822

Matches: 1 hit

  • … see Correspondence vol.  22, letter from Michael Foster, 17  …
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