To F. J. Cohn 1 January 1875
Summary
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 |
From Daniel Oliver 2 January 1875
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]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 363–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9798 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 January [1875]
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 January 1875
Summary
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 |
To Friedrich Max Müller 5 January 1875
Summary
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
Summary
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]
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 January 1875
Summary
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 |
From Friedrich Max Müller 7 January 1875
Summary
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]
Summary
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
Summary
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]
Summary
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 |
To St G. J. Mivart 12 January 1875
Summary
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
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 6–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9815 |
From G. J. Romanes 14 January 1875
Summary
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]
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
Summary
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
Summary
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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