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]
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
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]
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
Summary
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 |
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