From W. J. L. Wharton [15 September 1874 or later]
Author: | William James Lloyd Wharton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Sept 1874 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A67–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9205 |
To Francis Darwin [17 September 1874]
Summary
Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [17 Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9218 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 4 September 1874]
Summary
Forwards a letter reporting on a blow-fly trapped by a leaf of Dionaea; decomposition of fly has also decomposed the leaf. JDH has written asking for a strong plant, and explaining the case [of surfeit].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 222–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9615 |
From Theodosia Marshall [September 1874]
Summary
Sends count of remains on Pinguicula leaves.
Author: | Theodosia Louisa Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9616 |
From James Ross September 1874
Summary
Sends his book [On protoplasm (1874)], which defends CD’s theory.
Suggests why the lips are closed and the teeth clenched in the expression of determination: it originated as a means of protecting jaw-bone and teeth against a strong blow.
Author: | James Ross |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9617 |
To A. W. Howitt [September 1874]
Summary
Thanks Howitt for his offer of information from Australia and suggests that Howitt keep detailed notes for a future publication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Howitt |
Date: | [Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | M. H. Walker 1971, pp. 221 and 338 n. 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9617F |
To John Lubbock [before 17 September 1874]
Summary
Sends MS intended some day for the Viola tricolor section of Cross and self-fertilisation [pp. 123–8] to be used by JL in his British wild flowers (1875).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [before 17 Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645:107) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9618 |
From Charles Lyell 1 September 1874
Summary
Comments on Tyndall’s [Presidential] Address at Belfast meeting [of BAAS] and praise of CD’s work there. Mentions criticism of Belfast clergy.
CL saw some crustacean footprints while in Ireland.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 445-6; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9619 |
From D F. Nevill 2 September [1874]
Summary
Hooker has told her of CD’s work on insectivorous plants. Offers plants, but her Dionaea plants are too small now.
Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9620 |
To Charles Lyell 3 September [1874]
Summary
Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.
Describes his holiday in Southampton.
Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9621 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 3 September [1874]
Summary
Will prepare experiments with the fatty acids on digestion of gluten. Has found it is digested slowly, but entirely, with pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9623 |
From Chauncey Wright 3 September 1874
Summary
Writes at length on the origins and meanings of particular head movements as used to express assent or disagreement, especially the sideways movements of the head as an expression of consideration or contemplation.
Also discusses space and colour perception.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 172, 173 f. 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9624 |
To D. F. Nevill 3 September 1874
Summary
Thanks DFN for her letter [see 9620].
Has nearly finished work on Dionaea.
Asks her to send a specimen of Drosera dichotoma.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Date: | 3 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | Nevill 1910, pp. 107–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9624F |
From T. L. Brunton 4 September 1874
Summary
Observations of effect of pepsin and hydrochloric acid on urea indicate that it is not digested [by Drosera].
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 86–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9625 |
From W. C. Marshall 5 September [1874]
Summary
Sends Pinguicula vulgaris leaves with seeds on them, together with his observations on proportion of leaves with insects on them.
Author: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 128–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9626 |
To D. F. Nevill 7 September 1874
Summary
Thanks her for specimen of Drosera. Asks for an epiphytic Utricularia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Date: | 7 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.449) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9627 |
To W. C. Marshall 7 September [1874]
Summary
Thanks for the Pinguicula leaves, from which he has picked off sixteen seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Date: | 7 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | Stockholms Auktionsverk (dealers) (15 December 2015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9627F |
From D. F. Nevill 8 [September 1874]
Summary
Offers Utricularia montana and gives instructions for growing Drosera.
Wishes to visit CD at Down when she comes to London.
Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 [Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9628 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 334–335 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9629 |
From H. C. Sorby 9 September 1874
Summary
Reports on his spectroscopic examination of the colouring matter in the hairs (tentacles) of Drosera.
Author: | Henry Clifton Sorby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 88–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9630 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Nevill, D. F. | (5) |
Walpole, D. F. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Bennett, A. W. | (2) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Forel, Auguste | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Howitt, A. W. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Marshall, W. C. | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (5) |
Verrell, James | (2) |
Walpole, D. F. | (5) |
Wright, Chauncey | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (56) |
Nevill, D. F. | (10) |
Walpole, D. F. | (10) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |