To Asa Gray 29 January [1875]
Summary
Asks AG to forward [unspecified] enclosure to Chauncey Wright.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 29 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13813 |
To Asa Gray 30 May [1875]
Summary
Wants seeds of Nesaea verticillata for crossing experiments to see whether seedlings from "illegitimate unions" are sterile like true hybrids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 30 May [1875] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (121) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10002 |
From Asa Gray 29 July 1875
Summary
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 Asa Gray 28 December 1875
Summary
AG’s notices of Insectivorous plants [Nation 22 (1876): 12–14, 30–2]
and Climbing plants [2d ed., Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 11 (1876): 69–74].
Use of flower peduncles for support in Maurandia. Transition from branches to tendrils.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10329 |
To J. V. Carus 21 December [1875]
Summary
Encloses a correction [for Climbing plants, 2d ed.]. Asa Gray made a mistake in name of species of Passiflora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 Dec [1875] |
Classmark: | Kotte Autographs GmbH (dealer) (2012) (letter); Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 70) (copy of letter and original of enclosure) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10313 |
To Oswald Heer 8 March [1875]
Summary
Thanks OH for his book [see 9876]; agrees that the sudden appearance of many dicotyledons in the Upper Chalk is a perplexing phenomenon for the evolutionist.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Oswald Heer |
Date: | 8 Mar [1875] |
Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Nachlass Oswald Heer 213.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9881 |
From D. Appleton & Co. 11 October 1875
Summary
Has secured rights to Variation from Judd & Co.; had to pay $350 [dollars or pounds!?] for old plates and promise 50% discount on 150 copies of the new edition. Hopes Murray’s charge for plates of new edition will not exceed cost of doing the work in the U. S. Judd lost out considerably from small sale of his edition.
Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10189 |
From John Fiske 15 March 1875
Summary
Thanks CD for Descent
and for his praise of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Author: | John Fiske |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9888 |
From R. F. Cooke 22 October 1875
Summary
Sends a copy of Climbing plants [2d ed.]. Price cannot be higher than 6s.
Variation [2d ed.] price will be 18s, if CD approves. Future reprints will not be costly, since both have been stereotyped.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 473 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10213 |
From W. M. Canby 1 October 1875
Summary
Acknowledges copy of Insectivorous plants; has observed Drosera filiformis leaves closing around prey.
Author: | William Marriott Canby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B5–B5a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10179 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 March 1875
Summary
No action on assistance yet, but has had a private note from Disraeli asking whether Thiselton-Dyer is his recommendation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9891 |
From E. J. Johnston 24 May 1875
Summary
The insect-capturing Araujia has been forwarded from Portugal.
He discovers Apocynum is not in the same family, and he has misquoted [John Leonard Knapp’s Journal of a naturalist (1829)]; Apocynum captures by stamens, not stigma.
Sends seeds of Portuguese Drosera.
Author: | Edwin John Johnston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9992 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 October [1875]
Summary
Suggests WTT-D read account of Bignonia capreolata in forthcoming Climbing plants.
Plans experiments [on Melastomataceae]. Describes similar experiment performed on Monochaetum. Interested in meaning of differently coloured stamens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 3 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 29–30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10180 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 January [1875]
Summary
Is not inclined to restrain himself from expressing his opinion of Mivart. Huxley’s article in Academy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 365–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9805 |
From Chauncey Wright 24 February 1875
Summary
Speculates on the function of eyebrows and of hair and the furrows of the forehead. Considers many features and faculties to serve, or to have served, more than one function, either simultaneously or successively. Determining the one function through which natural selection has acted in developing it is unrealistic and not worth while.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 173 fos. 1–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9871 |
From Federico Delpino 11 September 1875
Summary
Thanks for Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874], which confirms some of his observations,
and for Insectivorous plants, which he praises.
Suggests that a book integrating knowledge of plant–animal interactions be written by a Darwinist.
Defines biology as the science of external interactions.
German reception is far more positive than Italian.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10155 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Canby, W. M. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |