To J. D. Hooker 1 October [1874]
Summary
Thanks JDH for extract on Hedychium pollination; it shows CD’s prior interpretation was incorrect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 421–422 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9665 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 October 1874
Summary
Thanks JC-B for copy of Medical Reports of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.451) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9668 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 9 October 1874
Summary
Has been testing the digestive powers of Drosera; wants to know whether a group of substances that elicit similar responses are related.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9669 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 October 1874
Summary
Asks JDH for leaves of Byblis and Roridula to examine, and D. Oliver for an anomalous species of Utricularia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 341a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9670 |
To Thomas Meehan 9 October 1874
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 353 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9672 |
To Edward Frankland 11 October 1874
Summary
Acknowledges the information about the phosphate and about putrefaction. Regrets that there is no knowledge of the conjectured substance. [See 9671.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 11 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9673A |
To F. J. Cohn 12 October 1874
Summary
CD responds [to 9667] with description of his own effort to study Aldrovanda and his observations on the structure of Dionaea.
His admiration for FJC’s earlier studies of the Venus’s fly-trap.
He urges FJC to proceed promptly with publication of his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 1, Heft 3 (1875): 71–92].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9677A |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 13 October 1874
Summary
Discusses the powers of digestion of Drosera and why certain substances produce less excitement in the plant than others.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9678 |
To W. H. M. Christie 13 October [1874]
Summary
Thanks WHMC and the Astronomer Royal for informing him of the safe arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at New Zealand. [See 9677.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Mahoney Christie |
Date: | 13 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | CUL-RGO 6/273 (section 3-4: 381) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9678A |
To Daniel Oliver 14 October 1874
Summary
Thanks him for specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 14 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.452) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9679 |
To Auguste Forel 15 October 1874
Summary
Writes about AHF’s book on Swiss ants.
Recounts his own observations on ants carrying cocoons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel |
Date: | 15 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:793) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9680 |
To W. B. Dawkins 18 October [1874]
Summary
Thanks WBD for his book, Cave hunting (1874).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 18 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | Buxton Museum and Art Gallery |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9682 |
To John Murray 18 October 1874
Summary
Thanks for Quarterly Review [Oct 1874, containing G. H. Darwin’s letter and a rejoinder]. Is convinced the author is Mivart. Is therefore not surprised at malice in the article attacking his son [George Darwin] and grossly misrepresenting CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 18 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 345–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9685 |
To Daniel Oliver 19 October [1874]
Summary
Returns insectivorous plants to Kew, with questions about their range. Most species seem to have remarkably confined ranges.
Asks for a Bengal Aldrovanda leaf so that he can see whether it differs from the German species.
Roridula interested him extremely.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 19 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9686 |
To G. H. Darwin 19 October [1874]
Summary
Advice to GHD on whether to accept invitation to lecture at the Royal Institution.
Murray has sent the Quarterly Review issue. CD has told Murray that he is convinced Mivart is the author and what he thinks of him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9687 |
To G. H. Darwin 22 October [1874]
Summary
Sends index [of Descent, 2d ed.] with instructions for proof-reading.
Asks GHD questions about heat transmission; he wants to use it as an analogy to illustrate transmission of motor impulses through leaves of Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9693 |
To G. H. Darwin [24 October 1874]
Summary
Writes about instructions to compositor and return of proofs [of Descent]. Requests return of 2d volume of Descent, to which he may want to refer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [24 Oct 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9696 |
To G. H. Darwin 25 [October 1874]
Summary
Thanks GHD for clear lecture on heat.
Will keep paper on proportion of sexes, in case GHD wants it again.
Wants him to translate some pages of Swedish or Norwegian sent by A. W. Malm, "a good man".
Glad to see the statistical paper ["Theory of exchange value", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 17 (1875): 243–53].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 25 [Oct 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9697 |
To A. W. Malm [25 October 1874]
Summary
Thanks for a paper on the reproductive organs of fish.
Has always admired AWM’s work on the Pleuronectidae (Bidrag till kännedom af Pleuronektoidernas utveckling och byggnad (Contribution to knowledge of the development and structure of the Pleuronectidae); Malm 1867).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | August Wilhelm Malm |
Date: | [25 Oct 1874] |
Classmark: | Göteborgsposten, 14 November 1874, p. 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9697F |
To W. W. Baxter 27 October [1874]
Summary
Orders two bottles of chlorodyne and bottles and corks of various sizes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 27 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9699 |
letter | (22) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Christie, W. H. M. | (1) |
Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
Forel, Auguste | (1) |
Frankland, Edward | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Malm, A. W. | (1) |
Meehan, Thomas | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |