To Lawson Tait 11 June [1875]
Summary
Has found that H. G. Bronn in the chapter appended to his translation of Origin cited ears and tail of mice as facts opposed to natural selection. Suggests RLT examine hairs of tails of mice for possible nerves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 11 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 24–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10013 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 March 1875
Summary
No action on assistance yet, but has had a private note from Disraeli asking whether Thiselton-Dyer is his recommendation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9891 |
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 |
To Oswald Heer 8 March [1875]
Summary
Thanks OH for his book [see 9876]; agrees that the sudden appearance of many dicotyledons in the Upper Chalk is a perplexing phenomenon for the evolutionist.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Oswald Heer |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Nachlass Oswald Heer 213.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9881 |
To J. B. Innes 10 May [1875]
Summary
On colour changes in rabbits. Suspects JBI’s is of impure origin.
Is correcting proof of Insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 10 May [1875] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9975 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [19 December 1875]
Summary
CD’s attempts to get support for Lankester among Fellows of the Linnean Society. He has encountered opposition to the Council.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | [19 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 52–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10308 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 August 1875
Summary
JDH reports his battle with Lord Henry Lennox over whether to locate new Herbarium on the Queen’s or public part of Garden.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 36–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10120 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Tait, Lawson | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
