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From a lady   [before 17 July 1875]

Summary

Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.

Author:  Unidentified
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 17 July 1875]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle, 17 July 1875, p. 78
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10070F

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]

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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

To A. W. Bennett   17 July [1875]

Summary

Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred William Bennett
Date:  17 July [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 86
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10074

From G. H. Darwin to William Clowes & Sons   17 July 1875

Summary

Errata for Insectivorous plants, 3d printing.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  William Clowes & Sons
Date:  17 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 86: B21, B23, B50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10074F

To Friedrich Hildebrand   17 July 1875

Summary

Asks about FH’s research on maize. Suggests experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:  17 July 1875
Classmark:  Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10075

To Ludwig Rütimeyer   17 July 1875

Summary

Thanks for KLR’s latest work (Rütimeyer 1875).

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:  17 July 1875
Classmark:  EAC Gallery (dealers) (autumn 2014)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10075F

To G. J. Romanes   18 July 1875

Summary

Comments on GJR’s experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  18 July 1875
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.472)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10076

From William Clowes & Sons   19 July 1875

Summary

Errata slip forInsectivorous plants

Author:  William Clowes & Sons
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 86: B22; DAR 94: 1a (cover)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10076F

From W. K. Parker   18 January 1878

Summary

Sorry he was out when CD called.

Author:  William Kitchen Parker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Jan 1878
Classmark:  DAR 174: 20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10077

To Georg von Seidlitz   17 July 1875

Summary

Is obliged to be given a second and improved edition of GKMvS’s excellent lectures.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz
Date:  17 July 1875
Classmark:  Zoologische Staatssammlung München
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10077F

From Lawson Tait   19 July [1875]

Summary

Sends a note on the ferment of the Nepenthes secretion, which he asks CD to forward to Nature if he thinks it worth while [see "Insectivorous plants", Nature 12 (1875): 251–2].

Author:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 July [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10078

DCP-LETT-10079

Author:  unknown
Addressee:  unknown
Date:  unknown
Classmark:  unknown
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10079

To A. C. Ramsay   10 October [1846]

Summary

Thanks ACR for paper and comments on it ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 297–335].

Sends copy of South America.

Discusses action of the sea.

Criticises ACR’s views on sudden elevation of mountain chains.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:  10 Oct [1846]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1008

To Lawson Tait   20 July [1875]

Summary

CD returns MS of a paper by RLT. "If you have succeeded in separating the ferment, the fact is manifestly important." Asks whether RLT tested the digestive ability of fluid from pitchers without animal matter. This would be necessary to prove that there was ferment in the fluid. CD is glad to hear about the [passage?] for guiding insects; he had guessed this to be the case.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  20 July [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 221.5: 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10080

From G. J. Romanes   20 July 1875

Summary

Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.

Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 July 1875
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896: 33
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10081

From the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften   20 July 1875

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Summary

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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Summary

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
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