To ? 22 June [1875–81]
Summary
Sends signed photo of himself.
Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 22 June [1875-81] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10544 |
To ? 30 June [1875–81]
Summary
Asks for copy of [unspecified] essay, but will not answer it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 June [1875-81] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.496) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10552 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
To Lawson Tait [after 17 June 1875]
Summary
RLT will find abundant evidence of absorption by Aldrovanda in CD’s forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants]. Congratulates him on his discovery of ferments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | [after 17 June 1875] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10019 |
To J. V. Carus 17 June [1875]
Summary
Sends clean sheets of Insectivorous plants. JVC will now be able to judge whether it is worth translating. The book has wearied him and cost much labour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 143–144) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10021 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 June [1875]
Summary
Has come to Abinger Hall for a rest after Insectivorous plants, soon to appear. Is sick of the accursed subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 386–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10024 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 June 1875
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 388 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10026 |
To Linnean Society 23 June 1875
Summary
Gives a report on a paper by Thomas Powell on coral islands ["Notes on the nature and productions of several atolls of the Tokelan, Ellice, and Gilbert Groups, South Pacific", read 15 Apr 1875, not published].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 23 June 1875 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP.917) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10027 |
To R. F. Cooke 24 June [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants ready for publication. Asks price. Suggests advertisements in Nature and Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
Date: | 24 June [1875] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 338–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10028 |
To C. V. Riley 25 June [1875]
Summary
Is staying at a friend’s [T. H. Farrer’s] house for rest until after 6 July, so cannot see CVR at Down.
Hopes he thanked CVR for the last Report [one of CVR’s Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects of the State of Missouri (1868–76)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
Date: | 25 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Empire Autograph Auctions (dealers) (1 January 2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10030F |
To Mr Russell 26 June [1875]
Summary
Is sorry his correspondent has had so much trouble about his address. Suggests he send the book from R. D. Fitzgerald [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)] either by post or by rail.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mr Russell |
Date: | 26 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Nate’s Autographs (dealer) (January 1995) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10031F |
To R. F. Cooke 27 June [1875]
Summary
Sorry to hear price of 15s [for Insectivorous plants]. Asks that JM consider 14s. Fears small sale at 15s. It is his fault – he never can help making his books too big.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
Date: | 27 June [1875] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 336–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10032 |
To W. C. Williamson 30 June [1875]
Summary
Thanks WCW for sending his lecture ‘The dawn of animal life’, which seems "a wonderfully clear & interesting sketch of the lower organisms".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Crawford Williamson |
Date: | 30 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 March 1973) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10037 |
To F. J. Cohn [30 June 1875]
Summary
CD’s publisher is sending FJC an early copy of Insectivorous plants, in which he hopes that FJC’s admirable papers are acknowledged with the respect that they deserve.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | [30 June 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10037A |
letter | (22) |
Tait, Lawson | (4) |
Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Tait, Lawson | (4) |
Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |