From a lady [before 17 July 1875]
Summary
Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 17 July 1875] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 17 July 1875, p. 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10070F |
From ? [16 February 1875]
Summary
"The learned Darwin states that Moses taught confusion. | For Man, he boldly says, descends from Ape or Monkey – | I, having read his book, am come to this conclusion | Darwin (at least himself) descends from Ass or Donkey."
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Feb 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 140.4: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9858 |
From Charlotte Papé 16 July 1875
Summary
Wants to study hereditary mental characters to see whether they are limited by sex – an idea CD holds provisionally and which she doubts. She sends a questionnaire form that she asks CD to criticise. Has read Francis Galton [Hereditary genius (1869)].
Author: | Charlotte Papé |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10072 |
From W. D. Fox 16 July [1875]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10073 |
From William Clowes & Sons 19 July 1875
Summary
Errata slip forInsectivorous plants
Author: | William Clowes & Sons |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B22; DAR 94: 1a (cover) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10076F |
From Lawson Tait 19 July [1875]
Summary
Sends a note on the ferment of the Nepenthes secretion, which he asks CD to forward to Nature if he thinks it worth while [see "Insectivorous plants", Nature 12 (1875): 251–2].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10078 |
From G. J. Romanes 20 July 1875
Summary
Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.
Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1875 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10081 |
From the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften 20 July 1875
Author: | Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C8r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10082 |
From A. R. Wallace 21 July 1875
Summary
Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10085 |
From Lawson Tait 21 July [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants: observations on the digestive fluid of Nepenthes.
Reproduction of plant by "parthenogenesis".
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10086 |
From W. T. Thiselton Dyer 23 July 1875
Summary
Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 95, 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10089 |
From J. H. Gilbert 24 July 1875
Summary
Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.
Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10090 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 26 July 1875
Summary
No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10094 |
From J. D. Hooker 27 July 1875
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 33–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10095 |
From Asa Gray 29 July 1875
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10099 |
From Anton Dohrn 29 July 1875
Summary
Regrets he is too busy to accept CD’s invitation to visit Down, but could only thank him again for saving the Zoological Station from shipwreck.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10101 |
From Giovanni Canestrini 29 July 1875
Summary
Italian translation of Variation will at last be published; will await second [English] edition to incorporate corrections.
Asks permission to translate Expression.
The second [Italian] edition of Origin is now in press.
Author: | Giovanni Canestrini |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10102 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 July 1875]
Summary
JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 July 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 1d |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10103 |
From J. D. Hooker [30 July 1875]
Summary
Will be delayed on Saturday because of unveiling of a monument to Sir J. Franklin at Westminster Abbey.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [30 July 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10104 |
From Anton Dohrn 31 May 1875
Summary
AD is aware of revolutionary character of his pamphlet [Ursprung der Wirbelthiere]. Authorities will not agree with him. Carl Gegenbaur and Ernst Haeckel are opposed. Younger biologists are disposed to accept his views. All he can expect is to put a stop to "the Amphioxus–Ascidian affair, and to open a road for speculation and for investigation on the side of the Annelid-homology".
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10003 |
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