From Lawson Tait 5 June [1875]
Summary
May publish a lecture on insectivorous plants and would like to dedicate it to CD.
Wishes to become an F.R.S.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10011 |
From Ernst Haeckel 6 June 1875
Summary
Comments on Fritz Schultze, Kant und Darwin [1875].
Describes recent activities.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10012 |
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 |
From Fritz Schultze 12 June 1875
Summary
Comments on his book [Kant und Darwin: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Entwicklungslehre (1875)].
Author: | Fritz Schultze |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10014 |
From Lawson Tait 12 June [1875]
Summary
Has separated out a pepsin-like substance from the secretion of Drosera, which he proposes to call "Droserin".
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10015 |
From Lawson Tait 12 June [1875]
Summary
Intends sending a paper containing some of his histological work [see "Freezing process for section-cutting; … staining and mounting sections", J. Anat. & Physiol. 9 (1875): 249–58].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10016 |
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 Robert FitzRoy 1 October 1846
Summary
Has just heard of RF’s return [from New Zealand]. Hopes to see him.
CD and family are well, but he is a different man in strength and energy from when he was "Flycatcher" in the Beagle.
Has just finished his book [South America].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 1 Oct 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1002 |
From Lawson Tait 16 June [1875]
Summary
Is waiting impatiently for the appearance of CD’s book [Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10020 |
From G. Chiantore 16 June 1875
Summary
Agrees to wait for the new edition of Variation and accepts Mr Murray’s offer of the clichés at £10. [See 9981.]
Author: | G. Chiantore |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June 1875 |
Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (CD’s Address Book) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10020A |
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 |
From R. L. Tait 17 June [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants: the means and site of absorption of digested animal matter. [Newspaper clipping enclosed.]
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10022 |
To Lawson Tait 17 [July 1875]
Summary
Informs RLT of J. D. Hooker’s work on Nepenthes ["Nepenthaceae, Cytinaceae", in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by A. P. de Candolle (1873), 17: 90–116].
Has asked JDH to try secretions of pitchers that had caught no insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 17 [July 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10023 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 June 1875
Summary
Thiselton-Dyer’s appointment has come.
Wants to discuss insectivorous plants and get some experiments going.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 30–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10025 |
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 |
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