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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From Horatio Piggot 20 March 1875
Summary
Suggests advantage to students of adding coloured drawings of the coral-producing zoophytes in next edition of Coral reefs.
Author: | Horatio Piggot |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 69: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9894 |
From Anton Bachmaier 21 March 1875
Summary
Thanks for reference concerning regeneration of human fingers and toes.
Sends lecture on language.
Asks for information about animal communication by vocal sounds.
Author: | Anton Bachmaier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9897 |
From E. J. Johnston 22 March 1875
Summary
He will write to Portugal for the insect-capturing Araujia.
Author: | Edwin John Johnston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9898 |
From John Murray 23 March [1875]
Summary
Sends CD a cheque for 68 guineas – his two-thirds share of profit on sale of 2000 copies of 2d edition of Descent.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 446 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9899 |
From J. P. Thomasson 23 March 1875
Summary
On nesting habits of pied and spotted flycatchers.
JPT disagrees with CD’s comment in Descent.
Marriages of first cousins produce congenital deaf-mutism.
Author: | John Pennington Thomasson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9900 |
From A. E. J. Modderman to Charles Darwin and 20 others 24 March 1875
Summary
Informing CD (and 20 others) of the award of an honorary degree by Leiden University.
Author: | Antony Ewoud Jan Modderman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | Leiden University Libraries (shelfmark ASF inv.nr. 327 document 55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9900F |
From Oswald Heer 23 March 1875
Summary
Discusses his work [Flora fossilis Arctica, vol. 4, pt 1 (1876)].
Sends copy of [Fossile Pflanzen von Sumatra (1874)]. Comments on climate in Tertiary period, especially on Sumatra.
Comments on theory of Thomas Belt concerning climatic change in ice age.
Author: | Oswald Heer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9901 |
From Thomas Burgess 26 March 1875
Summary
TB, who sailed with CD [as a Royal Marine] in the Beagle, asks for CD’s portrait. Recalls some events they shared.
Author: | Thomas Burgess |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9903 |
letter | (23) |
Bachmaier, Anton | (1) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Burgess, Thomas | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
Fiske, John | (1) |
Heer, Oswald | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Johnston, E. J. | (2) |
Modderman, A. E. J. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Piggot, Horatio | (1) |
Ruxton, G. A. | (1) |
Tait, Lawson | (4) |
Thomasson, J. P. | (1) |
Traube, Moritz | (1) |
Wolfe, G. A. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Tait, Lawson | (4) |
Heer, Oswald | (2) |
Johnston, E. J. | (2) |
Bachmaier, Anton | (1) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Burgess, Thomas | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
Fiske, John | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Modderman, A. E. J. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Piggot, Horatio | (1) |
Ruxton, G. A. | (1) |
Thomasson, J. P. | (1) |
Traube, Moritz | (1) |
Wolfe, G. A. | (1) |