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 |
From J. V. Carus 28 June 1875
Summary
Thinks Insectivorous plants must be translated and published in Germany.
Journal of researches nearly finished.
A new [German] edition of Origin is wanted.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 June 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10033 |
From R. F. Cooke 28 June 1875
Summary
Agrees to price Insectivorous plants at 14s.
Has CD quoted a price for stereotype plates to D. Appleton?
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 June 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 458 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10034 |
To R. F. Cooke 29 June [1875]
Summary
Mentioned to Appleton only that stereotypes [for Insectivorous plants] would be provided for "a little above cost price". Glad the price of the book will be 14s. He likes making money, but cares more for wider distribution of his books. Is uneasy about sale of Insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 29 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 334–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10035 |
From J. G. F. Riedel 30 June 1875
Summary
Pigmentation of Celebesians’ skin changes from birth onward. Passes through some of Paul Broca’s types.
| Author: | Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10036 |
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 |
To J. V. Carus 1 July [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants to be published in two or three days.
Climbing plants and 2d ed. of Variation will be published early in November.
Has no strength for corrections for the new printing of Origin, though many are desired.
Pleased that JVC will translate Insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 1 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 145–146) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10038 |
To M. T. Masters [July 1875]
Summary
Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Date: | [July 1875] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10038F |
From D. F. Nevill 2 July [1875]
Summary
Thanks CD for his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would like to visit again before August.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10039 |
From E. F. Lubbock [after 2 July] 1875
Summary
A poem on Insectivorous Plants.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 2 July] 1875 |
| Classmark: | Lubbock family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10039F |
From R. F. Cooke 3 July 1875
Summary
CD’s pessimistic view [of prospective sale of Insectivorous plants] is to blame for the small printing. Murray’s printed only 1250 copies and sold 1700. A thousand more have been ordered.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 456 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10040 |
To R. F. Cooke 4 July [1875]
Summary
Very glad about sales [of Insectivorous plants]. CD had hard work to persuade Murray to increase printing to 1250 copies, but owns he thought that number would last for eternity. U. S. publication and French, German, and Russian translations in the offing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 4 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 332–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10041 |
From Julius Sachs 4 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Has just finished his Geschichte der Botanik [1875].
Compares action of Drosera glands to action of sprouting embryo and to action of roots in absorbing minerals.
| Author: | Julius Sachs |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10042 |
To J. J. Weir 5 July 1875
Summary
Discusses case of Cytisus graft described by JJW.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 5 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 334 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10043 |
From J. J. Weir 6 July 1875
Summary
Yellow flowers occurring on a purple Cytisus grafted onto a yellow stock.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10044 |
From Arnold Dodel 6 July 1875
Summary
Thanks CD for a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Describes experiment on Drosera carried out with his pupils.
Describes reception of the book at the University of Zurich.
Comments on Nägeli’s concept of a "morphological species".
Expresses belief in importance of natural selection.
Mentions his forthcoming publication ["Ulothrix zonata", Jahrb. f. wiss. Bot. 10 (1876): 417–550].
| Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10045 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 July 1875
Summary
Discusses corrections to Variation.
Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 7 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 23–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10046 |
From John Lubbock 7 July [1875]
Summary
Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10047 |
From James Paget 7 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Intrigued by the analogy between fairy-rings and annular skin diseases, e.g., herpes and psoriasis.
| Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10048 |
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