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To J. J. Weir   10 July 1875

Summary

Regarding Cytisus graft with yellow flowers, CD thinks nurseryman has sold Cytisus adami to JJW’s brother in place of C. purpureus. This explains apparent "sport". [P.S. on envelope:] C. purpureus seeds freely. C. adami never does.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Jenner Weir
Date:  10 July 1875
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.466); DAR 148: 336
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10056

From G. H. Darwin to William Clowes & Sons   11 July 1875

Summary

Sends errata for Insectivorous plants 2d printing.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  William Clowes & Sons
Date:  11 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 86: B24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10056F

To M. T. Masters   10 July [1875]

Summary

Thanks MTM for his excellent review [of Insectivorous plants]

and for his trouble about the gooseberry.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  10 July [1875]
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10057

From T. H. Farrer   11 July 1875

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Asks CD’s opinion of an experiment on Drosera.

Author:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 164: 79
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10058

To G. J. Romanes   12 July [1875]

Summary

Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.

Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.

Alludes to Pangenesis.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  12 July [1875]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.471)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10059

To J. D. Hooker   [6 October 1846]

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Sulivans are coming on Friday. Can JDH come?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [6 Oct 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 66
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1006

To T. H. Farrer   12 July 1875

Summary

Describes difficulty of conditions for the experiment with Drosera suggested by THF.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:  12 July 1875
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/24)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10060

From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   12 July 1875

Summary

WTT-D and E. R. Lankester wish to visit CD.

Has corrected some references for new edition of Variation.

Author:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 178: 94
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10061

To Mr Russell   12 July 1875

Summary

Acknowledges with thanks "Mr Fitzgerald’s magnificent work" [R. D. Fitzgerald’s Australian orchids, part 1 (1875)]. [See 10069.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Mr Russell
Date:  12 July 1875
Classmark:  James Lowe Autographs (dealer) (Cat. 42)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10061A

From M. J. Berkeley   13 July 1875

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Fairy-rings grow because the fungal spawn radiates outwards then dies off at the centre as it becomes exhausted. The verdure of the grass depends upon the decay of the fungus supplying nitrogenous manure. Rings are formed mainly in upland pastures poor in nitrogenous matter. Gives examples of woodland fungi that form rings.

Author:  Miles Joseph Berkeley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 160: 175
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10062

From D. F. Nevill   13 [July 1875]

Summary

Thanks CD again for his book [Insectivorous plants];

would like an autograph to put in it.

Would be delighted if ever she could visit Down again.

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 [July 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 29
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10063

To J. J. Weir   14 July 1875

Summary

JJW is to think no more about mistake [regarding Cytisus graft].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Jenner Weir
Date:  14 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 148: 337
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10064

From G. J. Romanes   14 July 1875

Summary

Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 July 1875
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10065

From Lawson Tait   15 July [1875]

Summary

Has read Insectivorous plants and is to review it for the Spectator.

Author:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 July [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10066

From Alphonse de Candolle   15 July 1875

Summary

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Author:  Alphonse de Candolle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 161: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10067

From William Clowes & Sons   15 July 1875

Summary

First proof of errata slip for inclusion in Insectivorous plants 2d thousand.

Author:  William Clowes & Sons
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 86: B23
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10067F

To D. F. Nevill   15 July [1875]

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Summary

Sends his autograph

and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].

Would be pleased to see DN at Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  15 July [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 122
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10068

To R. D. Fitzgerald   16 July 1875

Summary

Thanks RDF for a part of his book [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)]; suggests further observations RDF could make and defends some of his own conclusions.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:  16 July 1875
Classmark:  Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10069

To J. D. Hooker   [8 October 1846]

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Can JDH bring a good book on Corallina or Nullipora of Lamarck?

CD intends writing paper on their propagation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [8 Oct 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 67
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1007

To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   16 July 1875

Summary

Thanks for JSBS’s essays; wishes he had said something on Lister’s observations. Speculates on the fungoid nature of smallpox and why there is seldom re-infection.

Discusses digestion by Drosera, the action of its secretion being the same as that of gastric juice.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:  16 July 1875
Classmark:  University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-22)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10070
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