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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
To Horatio Piggot 20 March [1875]
Summary
Thanks for his suggestion about drawings for future edition [of Coral reefs].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horatio Piggot |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9895 |
To Lawson Tait 20 March [1875]
Summary
Has read RLT’s essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] with interest. His facts about tumours seem to CD "highly favourable to some such notion as Pangenesis".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover (Noviss. 450: A 48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9896 |
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 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 J. P. Thomasson 30 March 1875
Summary
Seems to be in error about the nests of the two flycatchers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Pennington Thomasson |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 8876(i)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9905F |
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 |
| letter | (14) |
| Tait, Lawson | (3) |
| Belt, Thomas | (1) |
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| Hoek, P. P. C. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Tait, Lawson | (3) |
| Belt, Thomas | (1) |
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| Hoek, P. P. C. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Piggot, Horatio | (1) |
| Rusden, H. K. | (1) |
| Thomasson, J. P. | (1) |
| Traube, Moritz | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Wright, Chauncey | (1) |
