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To F. J. Cohn   [30 June 1875]

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CD’s publisher is sending FJC an early copy of Insectivorous plants, in which he hopes that FJC’s admirable papers are acknowledged with the respect that they deserve.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  [30 June 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10037A

To F. J. Cohn   24 August 1875

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Responds to FJC’s criticism regarding "aggregation" as it occurs in protoplasm [see 10131].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  24 Aug 1875
Classmark:  DAR 185: 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10134A

To F. J. Cohn   2 September 1875

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Further discussion of the process of aggregation in response to [10137].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  2 Sept 1875
Classmark:  DAR 185: 100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10150A

To F. J. Cohn   31 March [1876]

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Thanks FJC for paper by Alexander Fraustadt ["Vegetative Organe von Dionaea", Ell. Beitr. Biol. Pfl. 2 (1877): 27–64].

Mentions paper by A. W. Bennett ["Glands of carnivorous plants", Mon. Microsc. J. 15 (1876): 1–5].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  31 Mar [1876]
Classmark:  Stuart Opotowsky (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10436

To F. J. Cohn   26 September [1876]

Summary

Invites him to visit Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  26 Sept [1876]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 265
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10618

To F. J. Cohn   26 July 1877

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Comments on paper by Francis Darwin ["Glandular hairs of the common teasel", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 17 (1877): 169–74, 245–72].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  26 July 1877
Classmark:  DAR 143: 266
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11073

To F. J. Cohn   8 August 1877

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Asks permission to publish comments by FJC regarding paper by Francis Darwin [see 11073].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  8 Aug 1877
Classmark:  Michael Silverman (dealer) (2003); DAR 143: 267
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11095

To F. J. Cohn   3 January 1878

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Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.

Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  3 Jan 1878
Classmark:  Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11310

To F. J. Cohn   5 June 1878

Summary

Comments on achenia of Pumilio argyrolepis.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  5 June 1878
Classmark:  DAR 249: 73
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11542

To F. J. Cohn   11 January 1882

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Thanks FJC for presentation copy [of Die Pflanze (1882)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  11 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 143: 270
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13610

To F. J. Cohn   12 October 1874

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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 F. J. Cohn   1 January 1875

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Asks whether he might copy two of FJC’s drawings of Aldrovanda. He would like to have a proof of the plate for two woodcuts to be used in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  1 Jan 1875
Classmark:  DAR 185: 97
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9795A

From F. J. Cohn   21 August 1875

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Acknowledges presentation copy of Insectivorous plants.

Studying Drosera on vacation in Bohemia. Thinks CD has erred in considering "aggregation" to have occurred in the protoplasm. Suggests it is result of exosmosis of vacuole.

Author:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Aug 1875
Classmark:  DAR 161: 200
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10131

From F. J. Cohn   28 August 1875

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Clarifies his thoughts on "aggregation" in Drosera.

Author:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Aug 1875
Classmark:  DAR 86: B3–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10137

From F. J. Cohn   28 March 1876

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Has had doctoral student [Alexander Fraustadt] working on the physiology and chemistry (i.e., chlorophyll and starch distribution) and comparative anatomy of Dionaea.

Author:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Mar 1876
Classmark:  DAR 161: 201
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10435

From F. J. Cohn   31 December 1876

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Acknowledges presentation copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.

Thanks for visit to Down.

Praise for CD’s theories.

Author:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Dec 1876
Classmark:  DAR 161: 202
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10741

From F. J. Cohn   5 August 1877

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Praises unbroken series of CD’s and Francis [Darwin]’s botanical works.

Confirms FD’s Dipsacus observations. Problem of interpreting microscopic filaments as protoplasm or as inorganic and osmotic artifacts.

Author:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Aug 1877
Classmark:  DAR 161: 203
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11093

From F. J. Cohn   [10?] August 1877

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Accepts CD’s offer to publish his letter, confirming Francis Darwin’s observations [see Collected papers 2: 205–7].

H. Hoffmann’s observations on Amanita contractile filaments must be repeated.

Microscopic examination of secretory gland filaments in Dipsacus leafcups. FD’s pseudopod theory of Dipsacus.

Author:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [10?] Aug 1877
Classmark:  DAR 161: 204
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11101

From F. J. Cohn   31 December 1877

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Sends details of H. H. R. Koch’s work on bacteria, including first photographs.

J. S. Burdon Sanderson’s and Koch’s collaboration on systemic fever.

Thinks movement of Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus filaments is an artifact.

Author:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Dec 1877
Classmark:  DAR 161: 205
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11298

From F. J. Cohn   26 December 1880

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Response to Movement in plants. Setting out to confirm CD’s experiments. Believes plant cell motion, like that of animals, depends on protoplasm more than water.

Author:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Dec 1880
Classmark:  DAR 161: 206
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12940
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