From Emma Darwin to ? [October 1874 – April 1882]
Summary
CD cannot come to London to sit for photograph. Sends one taken by son [Leonard], which family considers the best likeness. CD would be glad to give a sitting at Down.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Oct 1874 – Apr 1882] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 62.10.1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13792 |
From G. H. Darwin [24 October 1874 or later]
Summary
Discusses the conduction of heat in crystals and fibrous bodies.
Author: | unknown |
Addressee: | unknown |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9211 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 October [1874]
Summary
Thanks JDH for extract on Hedychium pollination; it shows CD’s prior interpretation was incorrect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 421–422 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9665 |
From H. W. Bates 1 October 1874
Summary
Notes that Mr[s] Barber’s communication [forwarded by CD] will be published because of more striking than usual facts ["Notes on … larva and pupa of Papilio nireus", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1874): 519–21].
Encloses Thomas Belt’s address.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9666 |
From F. J. Cohn 4 October 1874
Summary
An account of his observations on Aldrovanda and Utricularia.
Sends CD his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1875) Heft 3: 71–92] in advance of publication [see Insectivorous plants, pp. 321 et seq., 395–6].
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9667 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 October 1874
Summary
Thanks JC-B for copy of Medical Reports of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.451) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9668 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 9 October 1874
Summary
Has been testing the digestive powers of Drosera; wants to know whether a group of substances that elicit similar responses are related.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9669 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 October 1874
Summary
Asks JDH for leaves of Byblis and Roridula to examine, and D. Oliver for an anomalous species of Utricularia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 341a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9670 |
From Edward Frankland 9 October 1874
Summary
Sends information CD requested on phosphate of ammonia and on nitrogenous substances produced during putrefaction of animal matter.
Author: | Edward Frankland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9671 |
To Thomas Meehan 9 October 1874
Summary
Doubts whether sudden and great variations often occur.
Comments on colours of flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 353 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9672 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 October 1874
Summary
Oliver will attend to his letter.
Tells of discovery and rediscovery of Aldrovanda.
Asks what CD thinks of "old Pritchard’s discourse" [C. Pritchard, Natural science and natural religion (1874)]. Does not affect evolution at all. It does affect the rather unprofitable doctrine of materialism.
His plans for the Royal Society Presidential Address.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 226–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9673 |
To Edward Frankland 11 October 1874
Summary
Acknowledges the information about the phosphate and about putrefaction. Regrets that there is no knowledge of the conjectured substance. [See 9671.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 11 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9673A |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 12 October [1874]
Summary
Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 12 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9674 |
From Daniel Oliver 12 October 1874
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9675 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 12 October 1874
Summary
Suggests an explanation for difference in excitability of Drosera leaves to meat and albumen on the one hand and, on the other, fibrin, areolar tissue, gelatin, and fibrous basis of bone.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 101–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9676 |
From W. H. M. Christie 12 October 1874
Summary
Announces arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at Canterbury, New Zealand.
Author: | William Henry Mahoney Christie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9677 |
To F. J. Cohn 12 October 1874
Summary
CD responds [to 9667] with description of his own effort to study Aldrovanda and his observations on the structure of Dionaea.
His admiration for FJC’s earlier studies of the Venus’s fly-trap.
He urges FJC to proceed promptly with publication of his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 1, Heft 3 (1875): 71–92].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9677A |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 13 October 1874
Summary
Discusses the powers of digestion of Drosera and why certain substances produce less excitement in the plant than others.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9678 |
To W. H. M. Christie 13 October [1874]
Summary
Thanks WHMC and the Astronomer Royal for informing him of the safe arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at New Zealand. [See 9677.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Mahoney Christie |
Date: | 13 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | CUL-RGO 6/273 (section 3-4: 381) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9678A |
To Daniel Oliver 14 October 1874
Summary
Thanks him for specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 14 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.452) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9679 |
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