To J. D. Hooker 30 March [1875]
Summary
Has at last finished Insectivorous plants
and is rewriting Climbing plants.
W. W. Ouless has finished his picture of CD for Academy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 382–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9905 |
To A. B. Buckley 23 February 1875
Summary
Expresses his feelings following the death of Charles Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9868 |
From Lawson Tait 2 June [1875]
Summary
Paralysis of the nervous system of Dionaea. Uses of tails of mice.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007 |
From T. F. Burgers 13 May 1875
Summary
Would like to call on CD if convenient.
| Author: | Thomas François Burgers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C11v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9978 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 10 April 1875
Summary
Discusses the handling of the Memorial concerning animal experimentation.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9922A |
To Thomas Belt 31 March [1875]
Summary
Has just come to London. Invites TB to luncheon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Belt |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9906 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 1 May [1875]
Summary
CD is delighted to hear that JSBS’s exertions and labour will probably be rewarded by success. He has had a note from Playfair who, like Lubbock, thinks the title and preamble [of the proposed bill] "had better wear a more humanitarian aspect".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 1 May [1875] |
| Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9963 |
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 T. H. Farrer 12 July 1875
Summary
Describes difficulty of conditions for the experiment with Drosera suggested by THF.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 12 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10060 |
To Lawson Tait 25 March 1875
Summary
Would be glad to make RLT’s acquaintance, but CD’s health would make RLT’s visit to Down unprofitable. Suggests a meeting in London at end of month.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 25 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 62, July 1989) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9902 |
To ? [after 11 December 1875]
Summary
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after 11 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10296 |
From J. B. Innes 7 May 1875
Summary
Writes about a white rabbit which is turning fawn-coloured,
and about Scottish education.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9973 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … letter from J. B. Innes, 13 June 1868 . ) Emma Darwin had received seeds of Aquilegia ( …
- … Correspondence vol. 22, letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 12 October [1874] and …
- … Emma’s name for a variety that Innes grew in his garden. The Bromley Record , 1 May 1875, p. 226, reported that Francis Darwin …
From John Tyndall 23 October [1875]
Summary
Asks whether he may send two or three other tubes [of boiled infusions] to be placed in the open and observed for him.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10218 |
To W. E. Darwin [5 April 1875]
Summary
Another message about club elections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9914 |
To A. R. Wallace 23 December 1875
Summary
E. R. Lankester has been unfairly blackballed at the Linnean Society. He is to be proposed for a second time, with CD seconding the proposal. Urges ARW to attend the ballot.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 272 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10322 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 June [1875]
Summary
Has come to Abinger Hall for a rest after Insectivorous plants, soon to appear. Is sick of the accursed subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 386–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10024 |
To T. F. Burgers [after 13 May 1875]
Summary
Proposes that TFB visit in about a week; at present CD is unwell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas François Burgers |
| Date: | [after 13 May 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C11r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9979 |
To W. D. Whitney 1 September 1875
Summary
Regrets he will not return home in time to see WDW.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Dwight Whitney |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 23, folder 619 1875 Sep. 1-11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10144 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 April 1875
Summary
Approves vivisection memorial.
Lyon Playfair supports his request for Kew assistant.
Asks whether CD has botanical suggestions for Arctic expedition.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9932 |
From C. E. Norton 22 September 1875
Summary
Reports the death of Chauncey Wright: "a great blow … to the interests of sound thought and scientific inquiry throughout the country".
| Author: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | Norton and Howe eds. 1913, 2: 57–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10166 |
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