From Thomas Aitken [c. 25 June 1874]
Summary
Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.
Author: | Thomas Aitken |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 25 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 150–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9204 |
From T. H. Huxley 25 June 1874
Summary
Returns proof of his note on brain for 2d ed. of Descent. Has added a reference to Abbé Lecomte’s "terrible pamphlet" [Le Darwinisme et l’origine de l’homme (1873)] "lest it be thought I meant our cher Owen".
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9510 |
To Asa Gray 25 June 1874
Summary
Remarks on his work on Pinguicula. Notes its digestive power; it absorbs nutritious matter from leaves and seeds as well as insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 25 June 1874 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (108) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9511 |
From John Ball 25 June [1874]
Summary
Received CD’s note late and so could not comply, but promises to vote in future for anyone CD recommends for Athenaeum.
Will have new evidence on dog’s intelligence sent to CD.
Author: | John Ball |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9512 |
To Joseph Fayrer [before 25 June 1874]
Summary
Sends observations of poison acting on glands of Drosera. Poison acts as a stimulant to protoplasm. Very remarkable that poison acts so differently on the cilia and protoplasm of Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Date: | [before 25 June 1874] |
Classmark: | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 23 (1874–5): 273–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9512F |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 June 1874
Summary
Reports on his examination of the dried specimens of Pinguicula at Kew to answer CD’s query whether all species secrete.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 64–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9513 |
From Joseph Fayrer 25 June 1874
Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9514 |
To John Ralfs [after 25 June 1874]
Summary
Wants particularly to know whether seeds or leaves of other plants are ever found adhering to the leaves of Pinguicula. Observations would perhaps best be made in a month or two.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Ralfs |
Date: | [after 25 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 59.1: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9514F |
letter | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Aitken, Thomas | (1) |
Ball, John | (1) |
Fayrer, Joseph | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Fayrer, Joseph | (2) |
Aitken, Thomas | (1) |
Ball, John | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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