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 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 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 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 |
From Lawson Tait 27 March [1875]
Summary
Is preparing a paper on the umbilical cord ["On the anatomy of the umbilical cord", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 23 (1875): 498–501; 24 (1876): 417–40] of which he sends a preliminary note [missing]. Believes spiral growth of the umbilical cord is important evidence of the descent of man; speculates on spiral growth in general.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9904 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Tait, Lawson | (1) |
| Belt, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Tait, Lawson | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Tait, Lawson | (2) |
| Belt, Thomas | (1) |
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
