To R. D. Fitzgerald 16 July 1875
Summary
Thanks RDF for a part of his book [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)]; suggests further observations RDF could make and defends some of his own conclusions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
| Date: | 16 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10069 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 16 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for JSBS’s essays; wishes he had said something on Lister’s observations. Speculates on the fungoid nature of smallpox and why there is seldom re-infection.
Discusses digestion by Drosera, the action of its secretion being the same as that of gastric juice.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 16 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10070 |
From R. F. Cooke 16 July 1875
Summary
The second printing of 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants] has sold out. Will print 750 more [3000 in all]. Mudie’s Library and Simpkin & Co. have ordered more copies.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 457 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10071 |
From Charlotte Papé 16 July 1875
Summary
Wants to study hereditary mental characters to see whether they are limited by sex – an idea CD holds provisionally and which she doubts. She sends a questionnaire form that she asks CD to criticise. Has read Francis Galton [Hereditary genius (1869)].
| Author: | Charlotte Papé |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10072 |
From W. D. Fox 16 July [1875]
Summary
Thanks CD for Insectivorous plants.
Is coming to London and hopes to visit Down.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 200 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10073 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Papé, Charlotte | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Fitzgerald, R. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Fitzgerald, R. D. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
