To Francis Darwin 28 June [1879]
Summary
Discusses the movements of radicles. His observations show that sensitivity to touch resides in the root tip and he believes that sensitivity to gravity governing geotropic responses is also in the root tip. Would much like to convert Julius von Sachs to his ideas on radicle movement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 28 June [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12128 |
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- … the contractions of the leaf of Dionæa muscipula . (Abstract. ) Report of the 43d Meeting …
- … irritation of the leaf of Dionæa muscipula . [Read 20 November 1873. ] Proceedings of the …
- … John Scott. 1874a. Venus’s fly-trap ( Dionæa muscipula ). (Lecture delivered at the Royal …
- … On the mechanism of the leaf of Dionæa muscipula, and on the electrical phenomena which …
- … associated with leaf contraction in Dionaea muscipula (Venus fly trap; see Burdon …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 21 March 1874
Summary
Sends his MS on Dionaea and hopes it may be useful for JSBS’s lecture ["On the mechanism of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 7 (1874): 332–5].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 21 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9368 |
From F. J. Cohn 28 March 1876
Summary
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 |
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- … 1876. Anatomie der vegetativen Organe von Dionaea muscipula Ell. (Inaugural dissertation, …
- … F. J. Cohn, 21 August 1875 and 28 August 1875 . Dionaea muscipula is the Venus fly trap. …
- … was ‘Anatomie der vegetativen Organe von Dionaea muscipula Ell. ’ ( Fraustadt 1876 ). The …
- … his studies upon the anatomy of Dionaea Muscipula. You will concede that a most scrupulous …
Munk, Hermann. 1876. Die elektrischen und Bewegungs-Erscheinungen am Blatte der Dionaea muscipula. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin (1876): 30–122, 167–203.
Balfour, Thomas Alexander Goldie. 1875. Account of some experiments on Dionæa muscipula (Venus’ fly-trap). [Read 10 June 1875.] Transactions of the Botanical Society [of Edinburgh] 12 (1873–6): 334–69.
Candolle, Casimir de. 1876. Sur la structure et les mouvements des feuilles du Dionæa muscipula. Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles n.s. 55: 400–31.
From P. A. Hanaford 3 September 1876
Summary
PAH’s friend, a florist, is repeating CD’s experiments with Dionaea muscipula.
CD’s works stir interest in America.
| Author: | Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10588 |
Burdon Sanderson, John Scott. 1873a. On the electrical phenomena which accompany the contractions of the leaf of Dionæa muscipula. (Abstract.) Report of the 43d Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1873), Transactions of the sections, p. 133.
Burdon Sanderson, John Scott. 1873b. Note on the electrical phenomena which accompany irritation of the leaf of Dionæa muscipula. [Read 20 November 1873.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 21 (1872–3): 495–6.
Burdon Sanderson, John Scott. 1874a. Venus’s fly-trap (Dionæa muscipula). (Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 5 June 1874.) Nature, 11 June 1874, pp. 105–7, and 18 June 1874, pp. 127–8.
Burdon Sanderson, John Scott. 1874b. On the mechanism of the leaf of Dionæa muscipula, and on the electrical phenomena which accompany contraction. [Read 5 June 1874.] Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 7 (1873–5): 332–5.
Fraustadt, Alexander. 1876. Anatomie der vegetativen Organe von Dionaea muscipula Ell. (Inaugural dissertation, Breslau University.) Breslau: R. Nischkowsky. [Reprinted in: Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 2 (1876–7): 27–64.]
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 31 December 1880
Summary
Signs a certificate sent to him by CD [see 12954].
Sends CD a ticket to his lecture on 25 February, in which he will propose that the mode by which the excitable parts of plants influence other parts at a distance is essentially the same as in the excitable structure of animals, contrary to the views of Hermann Munk and Julius Sachs.
Interested in chapters 6 and 7 of Movement in plants.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12958A |
From Casimir de Candolle 30 July 1876
Summary
Experimenting on climbing plants.
Has no further information on Dionaea.
| Author: | Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10567 |
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker [after 6 July 1867]
Summary
Sends W. M. Canby’s observations on the carnivorous powers of Dionaea. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 301, 310, 313.]
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [after 6 July 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 16–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5580 |
From W. M. Canby 22 April 1873
Summary
Sends leaves of Dionaea with insect prey in them. Size of insects captured may be affected by leaves not being fully grown.
| Author: | William Marriott Canby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 26–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8871 |
From Alphonse de Candolle January 1877
Summary
Introduces his son Casimir, who is visiting England.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 14 September [1873]
Summary
Very pleased at JSBS’s discovery ["On the electrical phenomena which accompany the contractions of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Rep. BAAS 43 (1873): 133].
Asks for pure animal substances [proteins] for Drosera experiments. His other sources have been T. L. Brunton, Edward Frankland, W. A. Miller (now dead), and Hoffmann of Berlin [A. W. von Hofmann?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 14 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9056 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1874]
Summary
Lady Dorothy Nevill has no Dionaea.
CD anxious to talk with JDH about Utricularia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 334–335 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9629 |
To F. J. Cohn 31 March [1876]
Summary
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 |
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Descent of man in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
