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From the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften   20 July 1875

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CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Akademie.

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]

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Acknowledges his election to the Akademie.

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

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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

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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

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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]

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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

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His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.

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

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Has received but not yet read Insectivorous plants.

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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