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 |
From T. H. Huxley 2 November 1875
Summary
Arrangements for CD’s appearance before Vivisection Commission.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 344 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10236 |
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 |
From Francis Galton 3 November 1875
Summary
Outlines a memoir he will give at the Anthropological Society in which he differs theoretically with Pangenesis.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A83–A86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10238 |
To G. J. Romanes [4 November 1875]
Summary
Mentions his appearance before Vivisection Commission.
Discusses his plans for planting and observing the carrots sent by GJR.
Mentions views of J. S. Burdon Sanderson on graft-hybrids.
Comments on GJR’s paper ["Instinct and acquisition", Nature 12 (1875): 553–4].
[Letter incorrectly dated "Thursday 8th" by CD.] [!? shd be note not synopsis]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [4 Nov 1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.478) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10239 |
To G. J. Romanes 4 November 1875
Summary
Carrots have arrived; CD has potted them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 4 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.479) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10240 |
To Francis Galton 4 November [1875]
Summary
In London yesterday for Vivisection Commission.
Is revising his chapter on Pangenesis [in Variation, 2d ed.] to allow that gemmules probably multiply in the reproductive organs.
Notes examples of inheritance of acquired characteristics cited by Brown-Séquard.
Doubts that double parentage is necessary for complex organisations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 4 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10241 |
From Francis Galton 5 November 1875
Summary
Sends a proof of his "Theory of heredity" from the Contemporary Review [27 (1875): 80–95; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 329–48]. Welcomes CD’s help and criticism.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10243 |
From Lawson Tait 6 November [1875]
Summary
Composition of "Droserin" [see 10015].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10244 |
To Francis Galton 7 November [1875]
Summary
Comments on FG’s paper ["A theory of heredity"]. Finds essay difficult to understand. Objects that FG’s theory conflicts with phenomenon of use and disuse. Conflicts also with rarity of bud-variations in nature.
Says he has ordered FG’s article ["The history of twins", Fraser’s Mag. 92 (1875): 566–76; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 391–406].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 7 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10245 |
From Ernst Haeckel 7 November 1875
Summary
Thanks CD for Climbing plants and Insectivorous plants.
Discusses his research on phylogeny. Results described in "Die Gastrula und die Eifurchung der Tiere" [Jena. Z. Naturw. 9 (1875): 402–508].
Describes newly discovered coral.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10246 |
From A. R. Wallace 7 November 1875
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10247 |
From Hugo de Vries 7 November 1875
Summary
Thanks for 2d edition of Climbing plants and for CD’s recognition of HdeV’s two essays on the subject [Climbing plants, pp. v–vi, 9 n., 22, 160]. Cause of spiral growth of tendrils.
Author: | Hugo de Vries |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 180: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10248 |
From G. J. Romanes [before 4 November 1875]
Summary
Sends successful graft-hybrid of red and white carrot.
CD should correct passage in Variation explaining deformation of sternum in fowls [Variation, 2d ed., 1: 287–8].
Chapter in Variation on Pangenesis is admirable.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 4 Nov 1875] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 42–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10249 |
From Francis Galton 8 November 1875
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A88–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10250 |
From Arthur Nicols [before 10 November 1875]
Summary
Discusses his ambitions.
Writes of rats that gnaw through lead pipes to find water.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 10 Nov 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10253 |
To Arthur Nicols [before 10 November 1875]
Summary
Does not doubt animals reason in a practical fashion. Do not the rats hear the water trickling?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Date: | [before 10 Nov 1875] |
Classmark: | Nature, 20 February 1879, p. 365 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10253F |
To Francis Galton 10 November [1875]
Summary
Comments on FG’s paper ["The history of twins"].
CD is "in a passion with the Spectator who always muddles".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 10 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10254 |
From Arthur Nicols 10 November 1875
Summary
Apologises for troubling CD to look for his lost MS.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10255 |
To Hugo de Vries 10 November 1875
Summary
Suggests that, if HdV make further observations on tendrils, he attend to Echinocystis, as described on p. 132 of Climbing plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
Date: | 10 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10255F |
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