To T. H. Huxley 22 December [1874]
Summary
Thanks THH and Hooker for defending George Darwin against Mivart’s libel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 22 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 273 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9769 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 December 1874
Summary
Expresses his gratitude to JDH and Huxley in the Mivart affair. Thinks he should write directly to Mivart, if Mivart does not retract.
Would be glad to have another Drosophyllum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 354–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9770 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1874
Summary
Will help Romanes. Offers Kew’s facilities for experiments. Is writing to the Board [of Works?] about a physiological laboratory, which Sir Philip Joddrell has offered to build. Thinks Government should support original research like Romanes’.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 239–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9771 |
To G. J. Romanes 23 December 1874
Summary
Urges GJR to visit Hooker at Kew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 23 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.456) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9772 |
From T. H. Huxley 23 December 1874
Summary
Entirely sympathises with CD about Mivart’s attack on George. THH has had a letter from Mivart in which he pleads guilty, but THH has decided there is no patching the matter up. Advises against doing anything unless Mivart takes initiative.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 356–7; DAR 166: 336 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9773 |
From T. H. Huxley To St. G. J. Mivart [23 December 1874]
Summary
A severe letter of rebuke to Mivart for his attack on G. H. Darwin.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | [23 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 336 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9774 |
To Arnold Dodel 23 December 1874
Summary
Thanks AD-P for sending his work, not yet received, on evolution [Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte (1875)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
Date: | 23 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9775 |
To T. H. Huxley 24 December [1874]
Summary
THH’s letter to Mivart is "tremendous". CD’s feelings and intentions about the matter.
If THH has made out homology of the skull, it is grandest discovery in years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 24 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 311) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9776 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1874]
Summary
Encloses note from Huxley and copy of Huxley’s answer to Mivart – a tremendous reproof. On Huxley’s advice, CD will not write to Mivart. Thinks Mivart’s private apology to Huxley makes the case even worse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 358–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9777 |
From Daniel Oliver 24 December 1874
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9778 |
From St. G. J. Mivart to T. H. Huxley 24 December 1874
Summary
A confidential letter explaining in detail the extent to which he regrets his attack upon [George] Darwin’s article.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 24 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 369 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9778F |
To ? 24 December [1874–81]
Summary
Sends compliments and thanks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Dec [1874-81] |
Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 21, 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9778G |
To Asa Gray 25 December 1874
Summary
Read AG’s article [see 9753] on longevity and duration of varieties with great interest.
Death of Mrs Hooker.
Hopes Insectivorous plants will be out in the spring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 25 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (110) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9779 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 December 1874]
Summary
Has gone over Huxley’s letter, thinks it a model. All must now await developments. If Mivart does not apologise, JDH will write to him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 241–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9780 |
To Ernst Haeckel 26 December 1874
Summary
Comments on review of EH’s Anthropogenie [1874].
Mentions recent work of Huxley and other scientists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 26 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9781 |
From D. F. Nevill 26 [December 1874]
Summary
Would like to know the results of CD’s Utricularia experiments.
A Brazilian love-bird, escaped from captivity, has been found in a robin’s nest, apparently starved to death along with three young robins.
Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 [Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9782 |
To G. J. Romanes 27 December 1874
Summary
Discourages grafting ears of rabbits. Suggests comb of fowl.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 27 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.457) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9783 |
To John Tyndall 27 December 1874
Summary
Asks JT to persuade Lady Lubbock to change physicians and put herself in the care of Andrew Clark. Thinks this alone will save her.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 27 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 22 (EH 88205960) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9784 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 December [1874]
Summary
Has not heard from Mivart. He is not so good a Christian as JDH and cannot forgive a man for malicious lying merely because he says he is sorry. Does not think Mivart will apologise. Still thinks the simple, most manly thing, is to write to Mivart directly and tell him what he thinks of him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 360–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9785 |
To Arnold Dodel 27 December 1874
Summary
Thanks AD-P for the copy of his work [see 9756].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
Date: | 27 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9786 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Romanes, G. J. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (62) |
Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
Romanes, G. J. | (5) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |