From James Crichton-Browne 12 September 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for his praise of West Riding Asylum Medical Reports.
Hopes CD will come to Asylum if he attends BAAS meeting at Bradford.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 320 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9053 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 13 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks JSBS for telegraphing his results, which seem very remarkable; feels he should now try Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9055 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 14 September [1873]
Summary
Very pleased at JSBS’s discovery ["On the electrical phenomena which accompany the contractions of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Rep. BAAS 43 (1873): 133].
Asks for pure animal substances [proteins] for Drosera experiments. His other sources have been T. L. Brunton, Edward Frankland, W. A. Miller (now dead), and Hoffmann of Berlin [A. W. von Hofmann?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9056 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1873
Summary
Mimosa too far gone to send now.
CD’s marjoram is the common [Origanum] vulgare, not the pot herb.
On the water injury, Thiselton-Dyer and he may have used too fine a spray, but plant is insensitive.
Horribly angry at P. G. Tait’s letter in Nature [8 (1873): 381–2].
Tyndall writes that he is strong – the next number of Nature will prove it.
G. Henslow is much better.
JDH leaves for Bradford [BAAS meeting] tomorrow.
Rejoices at CD’s success with Drosera; longs to be at Nepenthes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 162–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9057 |
To E. S. Morse 16 September 1873
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s paper ["On the systematic position of the Brachiopoda", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 15 (1873): 315–72]. "What a wonderful change … to look at these ""shells"" as ""worms""."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Date: | 16 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9058 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 September [1873]
Summary
Obliged for information on Mimosa albida; if a vigorous plant behaves as JDH says, CD’s notions are all knocked on the head.
Anxious to read Tyndall’s answer to Tait [Nature 8 (1873): 399].
Drosera story too long for his strength. Essentially the leaves act just like stomach of an animal.
Burdon Sanderson will give some grand facts at BAAS about Dionaea.
Offers to help JDH with Nepenthes experiments. Finds experimental work always takes twice as much time as anticipated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 277–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059 |
From Francis Darwin [19 September 1873]
Summary
Reports that S. W. Moore may be able to provide various substances for CD’s research on the digestive power of Drosera (sundew).
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059F |
From S. V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell 19 September 1873
Summary
Thanks for proofs of the Supplement to Crag Mollusca. Sends crab apples.
Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6327-9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059G |
To E. A. Darwin 20 September 1873
Summary
Consults about the wisdom of Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant rather than practising medicine.
Outlines his finances.
[Copy in EAD’s hand.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B1–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9060 |
To Nature 20 September [1873]
Summary
CD, in commenting on Wyville Thomson’s "Notes from the Challenger" [Nature 8 (1873): 347–9], recapitulates his work on rudimentary male cirripedes [Living Cirripedia], especially the complementary males attached to hermaphrodites. Offers an explanation, on evolutionary grounds, of their function and size.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 20 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 25 September 1873, pp. 431–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061 |
To Edward Frankland 21 September [1873]
Summary
Although CD’s experiments with pepsin were unsuccessful, he observed that the glands [of Drosera] as far as acid is concerned act just as the stomach of a mammal. Further experiments detailed. The secretion must contain something analogous to pepsin. [See 9062.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 21 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061A |
To W. W. Baxter 21 September [1873]
Summary
Requests 6 2oz bottles with corks. Folic acid produces remarkable effect. Orders hydriodic acid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 21 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061F |
From Edward Frankland 22 September 1873
Summary
CD’s discovery of acidity of Drosera secretion is interesting. EF explains how hydrochloric acid can be detected and identified. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 88.]
Author: | Edward Frankland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9062 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 September 1873]
Summary
Thanks for C. E. Norton’s address.
Tyndall’s answer [Nature 8 (1873): 399] has surprised and disappointed him;
great trouble in announcing Tyndall’s election as President Elect [of BAAS] yesterday. Tyndall may throw up the Presidency. Spottiswoode and JDH have concocted a letter telling him the facts.
A very poor dull meeting. Comments on papers by W. C. Williamson, Clerk Maxwell, David Ferrier, Burdon Sanderson [Rep. BAAS 43: lxx–xci, 23–32,126–7, 131–3].
Has heard Huxley is back quite well.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 173–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9063 |
From John Murray 23 September [1873]
Summary
Sends CD an account that has the novelty of having a balance against CD.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 436 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9064 |
To Edward Frankland 23 September 1873
Summary
Will follow EF’s suggestions as to securing purity of fibrin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 23 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9064A |
To Charles Lyell 24 September 1873
Summary
Discusses apple specimens received from CL; reversion to crab state. Cites passage on subject in Variation.
Comments on letter from Mr Wood on inheritance in fruit-trees.
Would like to cross flowers of "Hawthornden" with many distinct varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.432) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9065 |
To John Murray 24 September [1873]
Summary
CD will have to make heavy corrections in Expression and Descent if there ever is a new edition of either.
Will soon begin another book [Insectivorous plants].
It and a second one [Cross and self-fertilisation] will sell only "very specially".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 24 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 352–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9066 |
To Fritz Müller 25 September 1873
Summary
Seedling vigour resulting from crossing of parents.
CD to publish work on insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 25 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9067 |
To Ernst Haeckel 25 September 1873
Summary
Comments on EH’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [4th ed.].
Has written paper on rudimentary structures ["Complemental males of certain cirripedes", (1873) Collected papers 2: 177–82].
Edward Morse thinks brachiopods should be classed with annelids ["The systematic position of the Brachiopoda", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 15 (1873): 315–73].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 25 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1-52/30 [9883]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9068 |
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Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Wood, S. V. | (3) |
Frankland, Edward | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Baxter, W. W. | (4) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (3) |
Frankland, Edward | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (50) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Frankland, Edward | (5) |
Baxter, W. W. | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (4) |