From the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften 20 July 1875
Author: | Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C8r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10082 |
To the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften [after 20 July 1875]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften |
Date: | [after 20 July 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C8v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10083 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 July 1875
Summary
Would be obliged for correction of references in Variation [1st ed.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 21 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 25–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10084 |
From A. R. Wallace 21 July 1875
Summary
Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10085 |
From Lawson Tait 21 July [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants: observations on the digestive fluid of Nepenthes.
Reproduction of plant by "parthenogenesis".
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10086 |
From Francis Darwin to Lawson Tait 22 July [1875]
Summary
CD sends words that he is too busy to work on the Drosera RLT has sent. CD also regrets that the fluid on virgin pitchers of Nepenthes was not tested with white of egg. Until that is done, he doubts whether physiologists would admit the presence of the ferment.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 22 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10087 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 July [1875]
Summary
Glad to hear that ARW is so busy.
CD believes that he has thrown some light on the acquirement of the power of digestion in Droseraceae [in Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10088 |
From W. T. Thiselton Dyer 23 July 1875
Summary
Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 95, 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10089 |
From J. H. Gilbert 24 July 1875
Summary
Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.
Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10090 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 July 1875
Summary
Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 389 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10091 |
From Ludwik Masłowski to [John Murray?] 25 July 1875
Summary
Has received a confusing set of engravings, with both missing and superfluous illustrations [for Polish translation of Descent].
Author: | Ludwik Masłowski |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 25 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10092 |
From A. M. Lane Fox to E. F. Lubbock 25 July [1875]
Summary
Recounts the removal and regrowth of her son’s extra digit; her grandfather showed the same condition.
Author: | Alice Margaret Stanley; Alice Margaret Lane Fox; Alice Margaret Pitt-Rivers |
Addressee: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Date: | 25 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10093 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 26 July 1875
Summary
No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10094 |
From J. D. Hooker 27 July 1875
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 33–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10095 |
To Annie Dowie 27 July 1875
Summary
Has previously quoted details concerning the regrowth of her amputated extra digit in Variation [2: 14–15]. The case has since been disputed, so CD, who is revising his work, asks for some fuller details.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie |
Date: | 27 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10096 |
From Annie Dowie [after 27 July 1875]
Summary
Gives extracts from her father’s diary concerning the amputation and regrowth of her sister’s extra finger.
Author: | Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 27 July 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 240/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10097 |
To H. A. Huxley 28 July 1875
Summary
Asks HAH to keep Francis Darwin’s nomination paper [for Linnean Society] for Huxley to sign on return. FD appends personal note.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
Date: | 28 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 318) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10098 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 28 July [1875]
Summary
Apologises that he cannot supply any maize seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 28 July [1875] |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10098F |
From Asa Gray 29 July 1875
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10099 |
From R. F. Cooke 29 July 1875
Summary
Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 459 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10100 |
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