From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 25 June 1873
Summary
Informs CD of the effects of certain salts and other chemicals on animals.
Comments on CD’s results with Drosera. Suggests some experiments.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 116–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8949 |
From A. C. Smith 25 June 1873
Summary
Wonders whether CD has any idea how the cuckoo manages to match its eggs to those of its host; believes it possible that the diet of the nestling cuckoo, which varies with its host, may affect its behaviour and the colour of its eggs.
Author: | Alfred Charles Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8950 |
To Federico Delpino 25 June [1873]
Summary
Discusses role of insects in crossing varieties of Lathyrus odoratus and other species.
Comments on Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)],
and Anton Kerner ["Die Schutzmittel des Pollens", Ber. Naturwiss. Med. Ver. Innsbruck, 3 (1873): 100–68].
Admires FD’s work on anemophilous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 25 June [1873] |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8951 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 26 June [1873]
Summary
Would welcome JSBS visit to discuss Drosera. Nitrogenous fluids can act as ferments only if they act merely by exciting molecular movement in adjoining molecules.
Glass and cotton excite movement and cause cell contents to change visibly. Huxley coming to see this phenomenon.
Studied effect of poisons 12 or 15 years ago to see whether the action was similar to that on nervous tissue.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 26 June [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-08) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8952 |
From W. W. Reade 26 June 1873
Summary
Is tired of inaction and so is leaving for Egypt and the East.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8953 |
From J. D. Hague 26 June 1873
Summary
Confirms previous observations on ants [see 8788].
Author: | James Duncan Hague |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 June 1873 |
Classmark: | Nature, 24 July 1873, p. 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8954 |
From T. F. Cheeseman 27 June 1873
Summary
Sends his paper on fertilisation of the New Zealand species of the orchid Pterostylis [Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 4 (1871): 270–84].
Author: | Thomas Frederick Cheeseman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8955 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 June 1873
Summary
Thanks for Dionaea.
George Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1873): viii–xxix]. Admires it greatly.
CD’s recent work leads him to a different theory [from GB’s] on the separation of the sexes of plants.
Huxley has been at Down working with CD on Drosera – very helpful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 263–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8956 |
To Charles Lyell 28 June [1873]
Summary
Thanks for the extract from the American paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 28 June [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8956F |
From Friedrich Max Müller 29 June 1873
Summary
Sends three lectures on the origin of human language [see 8962].
Although a "sincere admirer", he differs with CD on the relation of human to so-called animal language.
Author: | Friedrich Max Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 284 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8957 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 June 1873
Summary
Leaves Wednesday with Huxley for holiday.
Family news.
He too thinks well of Bentham’s address.
Asa Gray elected Foreign F.R.S.
G. J. Allman is being proposed for Royal Medal by JDH and Huxley.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8958 |
To W. H. Flower 30 June 1873
Summary
Thanks for sending WHF’s lecture, ‘On palaeontological evidence of the modifications of animal forms’ (Flower 1873).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | 30 June 1873 |
Classmark: | John Innes Foundation Historical Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8958F |
To ? [June–September 1873?]
Summary
Printed memorandum giving reasons why there should be subsidy on a large scale of scientific research unencumbered with teaching.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [June–Sept 1873?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (T. H. Huxley papers Mss.B.H981) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9040G |
From Francis Darwin [before 26 June 1873]
Summary
Has discussed with E. E. Klein about the purchase of a Hartnack microscope from Paris.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 26 June 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9092F |
letter | (34) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Ayres, W. P. | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Cheeseman, T. F. | (1) |
Cochrane, A. A. L. P. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Blackley, C. H. | (1) |
Cochrane, A. A. L. P. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (3) |
Cochrane, A. A. L. P. | (2) |
Cupples, George | (2) |
Dapsy, Laszlo | (2) |