To ? 10 March 1875
Summary
No uniform edition of CD’s works has appeared in England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 10 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9882F |
From F. M. Balfour [20 March – 14 April 1875]
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Mar – 14 Apr 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9203 |
To H. K. Rusden [before 27 March 1875]
Summary
Thanks for copy of lecture (Rusden 1874: Selection, natural and artificial, a lecture delivered in the Wangaratta Athenaeum by Mr. H. K. Rusden on Monday, October 26th, 1874) and essay (Rusden 1872: The treatment of criminals in relation to science, an essay read before the Royal Society of Victoria).
Comments on the essay.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Keylock Rusden |
Date: | [before 27 Mar 1875] |
Classmark: | Ovens and Murray Advertiser, 27 March 1875, p. 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9705F |
From Oswald Heer 1 March 1875
Summary
Comments on his Flora fossilis Arctica [vol. 3 (1875)]. Discusses successive appearance of plant families in geological periods. Relates plant development to rise of herbivorous mammals.
Comments on death of Charles Lyell.
Author: | Oswald Heer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9876 |
From George Cupples 1 March 1875
Summary
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent, 2d ed.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9877 |
From Moritz Traube 2 March 1875
Summary
Sends two treatises which explain cell-wall formation and some aspects of cell growth in physico-chemical terms ["Experimente zur Theorie d. Zellenbildung und Endosmose", Arch. Anat. Physiol. (1867): 87–128, 126–65].
Author: | Moritz Traube |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9878 |
To Moritz Traube 5 March 1875
Summary
Thanks correspondent for two essays.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Moritz Traube |
Date: | 5 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Francis Storr Correspondence (Mss2304)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9879 |
To [M. T. Masters?] 7 March 1875
Summary
Thanks correspondent for article on CD in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 7 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.464) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9880 |
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 P. P. C. Hoek 11 March 1875
Summary
Thanks for publication [Berste bijdrage tot een nauwkeuriger kennis der sessile cirripedien (1875)]. Cannot read Dutch. Mentions PPCH’s research on cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
Date: | 11 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9883 |
From A. W. Bennett 12 March 1875
Summary
Has found the relation of pollen-grain size to style size in Primula to be the opposite of CD’s view; asks whether there is an error or just remarkable variation.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9884 |
From Lawson Tait 12 March [1875]
Summary
Purpose of bushy tails; their usefulness to their owners as a means of keeping warm.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9885 |
To Lawson Tait [13–15 March 1875]
Summary
Thinks CD is right about the retention of a tail.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | [13–15 Mar 1875] |
Classmark: | Birmingham Daily Post, 8 April 1875, p. 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9885F |
To Chauncey Wright 13 March 1875
Summary
Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.
Mentions notices in the Nation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 13 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9886 |
From W. B. Dawkins 14 March 1875
Summary
Is glad CD is pleased with his book [Cave hunting (1874)].
Relationship between language and race. The Basques.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9887 |
From John Fiske 15 March 1875
Author: | John Fiske |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9888 |
From Lawson Tait 16 March [1875]
Summary
Uses of tails of mice. Functions of tails generally.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9889 |
From E. J. Johnston 16 March 1875
Summary
Reports an Araujia in Portugal that captures various insects on the horns of its stigma. Relates this to another asclepiad, Apocynum, which also captures insects. Is this "insectivory" or insect fertilisation?
Author: | Edwin John Johnston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9890 |
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 |
From Lawson Tait 17 March [1875]
Summary
Sends a short essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] on which he would welcome CD’s opinion. Believes problems of pathology can be attacked by regarding them from "Darwinian" point of view.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9892 |
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Tait, Lawson | (4) |
Heer, Oswald | (2) |
Johnston, E. J. | (2) |
Bachmaier, Anton | (1) |
Belt, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Heer, Oswald | (1) |
Hoek, P. P. C. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Piggot, Horatio | (1) |
Rusden, H. K. | (1) |
Tait, Lawson | (3) |
Thomasson, J. P. | (1) |
Traube, Moritz | (1) |
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Wright, Chauncey | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Tait, Lawson | (7) |
Heer, Oswald | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Johnston, E. J. | (2) |
Piggot, Horatio | (2) |
Thomasson, J. P. | (2) |
Traube, Moritz | (2) |
Bachmaier, Anton | (1) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Belt, Thomas | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Burgess, Thomas | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
Fiske, John | (1) |
Hoek, P. P. C. | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Modderman, A. E. J. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Rusden, H. K. | (1) |
Ruxton, G. A. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Wolfe, G. A. | (1) |
Wright, Chauncey | (1) |