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. 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 |
From Herbert Spencer 7 July 1875
Summary
Thanks CD for his new volume [Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Herbert Spencer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 234 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10049 |
From J. J. Weir 7 July 1875
Summary
Yellow and purple flowers occur on plant grafted with Cytisus purpureus, but only on separate racemes. Only yellow blooms seed.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10050 |
To J. J. Weir 8 July [1875]
Summary
Is very interested in JJW’s report on a purple laburnum grafted onto yellow stock which then produces yellow flowers. CD requests racemes to examine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 8 July [1875] |
Classmark: | Boston Public Library (Rare Books MSS Acc. 324) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10051 |
From T. S. Baynes 8 July 1875
Summary
Asks CD to write short article on breeds and breeding for new edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Huxley has suggested natural history topics to be covered, and recommended CD.
Author: | Thomas Spencer Baynes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10052 |
From Joseph Fayrer 8 July 1875
Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10053 |
From Rudolph Riemann 9 July 1875
Summary
Professional sheep-breeder interested in laws of inheritance reports his crosses between Serinus hortulanus and Dryospiza canaria. Seeks to make a new species. Crosses carried out with animals varying in their proportion of Serinus and Dryospiza parentage. Confirms Prosper Lucas’ law as given in Origin, ch. 9, with exception that strong individuals exhibit prepotency.
Author: | Rudolf Ehrenfried (Rudolf) Riemann |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 157, 157/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10054 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
Weir, J. J. | (4) |
Tait, Lawson | (3) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
Masters, M. T. | (2) |