To G. H. Darwin 13 October [1875]
Summary
Pleased by W. Stanley Jevons’ letter.
Has ordered Dr Cohn’s book.
Is sure that GHD’s energy will lead to success with work on viscous fluids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10196 |
To J. V. Carus 14 October [1875]
Summary
Sends sheets of Climbing plants [2d ed.], which will be published in November. Suggests JVC have someone translate it under his supervision,
since he has not yet finished Insectivorous plants.
Admires the appearance of [German ed. of] Journal of researches.
Discusses other publication prospects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 14 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 135–136) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10198 |
To Lawson Tait 14 October [1875]
Summary
Will be happy to present RLT’s paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 14 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (MS 331 box 1 folder 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10199 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 October [1875]
Summary
Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.
Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 394–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10200 |
To Friedrich Max Müller 15 October [1875]
Summary
Thanks FMM for his essay [see 10194]. Though some of FMM’s remarks are "stinging", they have all been made "gracefully".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Max Müller |
Date: | 15 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 427 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10201 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 October [1875]
Summary
Thanks for information. Absorption of ammonium carbonate by glandular hairs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 16 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 33–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10202 |
To John Tyndall 20 October [1875]
Summary
JT’s tube [of boiled infusion] dated 16 Oct was clear on 19th; on the 20th it was muddy and contained many bacteria in living movement.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 20 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10207 |
To John Fiske 21 October [1875]
Summary
Thanks for excellent notice of Chauncey Wright.
Would like a copy of Wright’s "Darwinism in Germany" [Nation 21 (1875): 168–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 21 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8264) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10208 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 October [1875]
Summary
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 397–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10209 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 October 1875
Summary
Encloses manuscript [missing] by George King ["Sport in Paritium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 101–3].
Sends thanks to Hooker for correction of name. Mentions other errors.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 22 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 35–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10210 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 October [1875]
Summary
Thanks for THH’s essay on species [article for an American encyclopedia].
Will probably never again write on large and general subjects; will keep to easier specific ones such as insectivorous and climbing plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 23 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 320) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10214 |
To John Tyndall 25 October [1875]
Summary
Asks JT to send the tubes [of boiled infusions]. Frank Darwin will do his best. Asks for full instructions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 25 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 23 (EH 88205961) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10222 |
To G. H. Darwin [25 October 1875]
Summary
Asks that a copy of GHD’s paper on cousin marriage be sent to Hermann Müller. J. F. McLennan admires it "as a model".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [25 Oct 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10223 |
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 |
To Hermann Müller 26 October 1875
Summary
On HM’s Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 26 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 436 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10228 |
To Gustavus Fritsche 27 October 1875
Summary
Will send vol. 1 [of Variation, 2d ed.] as soon as complete so that correspondent can decide about the translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gustavus Fritsche |
Date: | 27 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10230 |
To Edward Cardwell 29 October 1875
Summary
CD would feel bound to give evidence to the Royal Commission on vivisection should they ask him, but he has no personal experience of the matter. Expresses his opinions on the importance to physiology of experiments on live animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell |
Date: | 29 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C4–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10232 |
To Smith, Elder & Co 30 October 1875
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £2 8s 10d for 2d edition of Coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 30 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10233 |
To T. H. Huxley 1 November [1875]
Summary
Astonished and disgusted at Klein’s evidence. No doubt there will be severe and vicious legislation against physiology. Will give evidence before Commission.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 322) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10235 |
To Francis Galton 2 November [1875]
Summary
Has heard that FG will write on inheritance. Huxley does not believe in E. G. Balbiani’s views on subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 2 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10237 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (20) |
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Tait, Lawson | (14) |
Cooke, R. F. | (12) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (10) |