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 |
To Linnean Society 1 January [1875]
Summary
Asks permission to republish his climbing plants paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] in a corrected form [Climbing plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 1 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10004 |
From Francis Galton 2 June 1875
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10005 |
From William Marshall 2 June 1875
Summary
Discusses feather as case of evolutionary atavism.
Will soon publish on siliceous sponges
and the skin of caterpillars.
Author: | William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10006 |
From Lawson Tait 2 June [1875]
Summary
Paralysis of the nervous system of Dionaea. Uses of tails of mice.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007 |
From Francis Darwin [after 3 June 1875]
Summary
Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 3 June 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007F |
To A. E. J. Modderman 3 June 1875
Summary
Thanks for the diploma conferring on him an honorary doctorate of medicine from Leiden University.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Antony Ewoud Jan Modderman |
Date: | 3 June 1875 |
Classmark: | Leiden University Libraries (shelfmark ASF inv.nr. 327 document 86) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007G |
From Otto Zacharias 3 June 1875
Summary
Intends to set up a biological periodical called “Darwinia” to spread and popularise Darwin’s theories; hopes CD may contribute a few words to the opening issue.
Author: | Otto Zacharias |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10008 |
To Lawson Tait 4 June [1875]
Summary
CD’s observations on the power of movement and transmission of motor impulses in plants. If RLT succeeds with the tails of mice, it will be "a beautiful little discovery"; CD will enjoy it the more "because some German sneered at natural selection and instanced the tail of the mouse" [see 10013].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 4 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10009 |
From T. H. Huxley 5 June 1875
Summary
Playfair "disgusted at our pronunciamentos against the Bill". Burdon Sanderson and William Sharpey agreed to it. THH feels he must serve on Vivisection Commission.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 341 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10010 |
From Lawson Tait 5 June [1875]
Summary
May publish a lecture on insectivorous plants and would like to dedicate it to CD.
Wishes to become an F.R.S.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10011 |
From Ernst Haeckel 6 June 1875
Summary
Comments on Fritz Schultze, Kant und Darwin [1875].
Describes recent activities.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10012 |
To Lydia Wendland 7 June [1875]
Summary
Is very grateful for the gift of a fender-stool. Will send her a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lydia Wendland |
Date: | 7 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10012F |
To Lawson Tait 11 June [1875]
Summary
Has found that H. G. Bronn in the chapter appended to his translation of Origin cited ears and tail of mice as facts opposed to natural selection. Suggests RLT examine hairs of tails of mice for possible nerves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 11 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 24–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10013 |
To Otto Zacharias [11 June 1875]
Summary
CD is convinced by the conclusions of Malthus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
Date: | [11 June 1875] |
Classmark: | Zacharias 1882, p. 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10013F |
From Fritz Schultze 12 June 1875
Summary
Comments on his book [Kant und Darwin: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Entwicklungslehre (1875)].
Author: | Fritz Schultze |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10014 |
From Lawson Tait 12 June [1875]
Summary
Has separated out a pepsin-like substance from the secretion of Drosera, which he proposes to call "Droserin".
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10015 |
From Lawson Tait 12 June [1875]
Summary
Intends sending a paper containing some of his histological work [see "Freezing process for section-cutting; … staining and mounting sections", J. Anat. & Physiol. 9 (1875): 249–58].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10016 |
To Lawson Tait 13 June [1875]
Summary
RLT’s observations come too late, as CD’s book on Droseraceae has been printed.
Reports on his observations of ferment in secretions in Drosera rotundifolia and Drosophyllum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 13 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10017 |
To Fritz Schultze 14 June [1875]
Summary
Thanks FS for his book [Kant und Darwin].
Sends regards to Haeckel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Fritz Schultze |
Date: | 14 June [1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.470) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10018 |
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