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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From G. A. Wolfe 9 March 1875
Summary
CD’s Descent.
Fighting among beetles.
Similarity between dogs and men; intelligence of dogs.
Author: | Gould Anne Ruxton; Gould Anne Wolfe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9882 |
From R. F. Cooke 19 March 1875
Summary
A curious alteration in the reprint of Variation.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 445 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9893 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
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Belt, Thomas | (1) |
Heer, Oswald | (1) |
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