To F. C. Donders 7 July 1874
Summary
Asks about the effect of atropine on the eye. Is interested in parallel case: influence of phosphate of ammonia on glands of Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Date: | 7 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 417 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9535 |
To J. V. Carus 9 July [1874]
Summary
Advises JVC on how his publisher might deal with problem of getting satisfactory heliotype copies for 2d [German] edition of Expression.
Regrets that he will again be away in August, when JVC might have come for a visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 9 July [1874] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 116–117) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9539 |
To John Ralfs 13 July [1874]
Summary
Discusses specimens of Utricularia.
Mentions JR’s work on desmids [The British Desmidieae [Desmidiae!?] (1848)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Ralfs |
Date: | 13 July [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.443) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9546 |
To F. C. Donders 15 July 1874
Summary
Discusses effect of atropine solution on eye,
and effect of phosphate of ammonia solution on gland of Drosera.
Would like to see work by T. W. Engelmann and possibly one by Dr De Ruyter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Date: | 15 July 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9547 |
To G. J. Romanes 16 July 1874
Summary
Thanks GJR for his letter, regrets pressure of other work prevents his giving GJR’s remarks the attention they deserve. GJR makes clearer how an organ that has started to decrease will go on decreasing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 16 July 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.444) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9549 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 July 1874
Summary
The Acacia must be Belt’s "Bulls’ horns".
The complexity of Utricularia has driven Frank and CD almost mad. Suspects it is necrophagous, i.e., it cannot digest, but absorbs decaying animal matter.
Foster is certainly in error. Every insect that Drosera catches causes aggregation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 326–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9550 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 July [1874]
Summary
"It is grand about Nepenthes."
JDH is welcome to notice in any way any of CD’s published or unpublished results with insectivorous plants. Gives an abstract of his observations on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 July [1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 32–37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9555 |
To Edward Frankland 22 July 1874
Summary
Asks for the specific gravity of common phosphate of ammonia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 22 July 1874 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9559A |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1874]
Summary
JDH should do as he likes with insectivorous plant materials.
He has always thought telling JDH what he has been doing was as good as publishing.
Cephalotus seems as horrid a puzzle as Utricularia.
Nepenthes will turn out a great job if the pitchers of different species act differently. JDH’s paper on Nepenthes [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 102–16] is too long for CD’s book. Well deserves a place in Philosophical Transactions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 July [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 328–31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9560 |
To W. E. Darwin 24 [July 1874]
Summary
Arrangements for the visit to Southampton.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 24 [July 1874] |
Classmark: | Michael Silverman (dealer) (Catalogue 25, 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9560F |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 24 [June 1874]
Summary
Describes how Pinguicula captures insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 24 [June 1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 16–17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9562 |
To John Price 27 [July 1874]
Summary
Discusses Utricularia sent by JP.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Price |
Date: | 27 [July 1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.445) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9565 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 27 July 1874]
Summary
Has been examining Utricularia minor. Same essential structure but catches smaller Entomostraca. One bladder had 24, another 20, and another 15 Entomostraca. "What slaughter! We must make out the functions of the beast––".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [c. 27 July 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9565A |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 [June 1874]
Summary
Thanks for letter on Erica tetralix.
Identification of leaves digested by Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 27 [June 1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9566 |
To G. H. Darwin [27 July 1874]
Summary
Advises GHD to get an eminent counsel. If counsel’s opinion is that the reviewer [Mivart, in "Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77] has falsified GHD’s statements, GHD should send the opinion to the Quarterly Review and demand publication, and if refused publish elsewhere. Then CD must decide whether to cut John Murray [publisher of Q. Rev.] which will put CD in a nice perplexity [over his rights to the stereotyped editions of past works].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [27 July 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9568 |
To G. J. Romanes 28 July [1874]
Summary
Comments on Spencer’s terms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 28 July [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.446) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9569 |
To John Price 28 July [1874]
Summary
Thanks JP for note.
Sends instructions for mailing Utricularia plants to Down in his absence.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Price |
Date: | 28 July [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9570 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 28 [June 1874]
Summary
Must stop work on "bloom" and leaf movements if he is ever to get anything published on Drosera, etc.
Sends thanks for seeds. Encloses memorandum in case WTT-D wishes to communicate information to Royal Horticultural Society. Has not time to prepare article.
Discusses condition of plants borrowed from Kew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 28 [June 1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 19–22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9571 |
To G. H. Darwin [30 July 1874]
Summary
Hasty note to express his most decided opinion that letter [to Q. Rev.] should not give a sketch of GHD’s essay – only an explicit denial "& do not allude to me".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [30 July 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9576 |
To J. T. Knowles 31 July 1874
Summary
Asks whether it would be possible for Contemporary Review to republish an article on language from North American Review [119 (1874): 61–88] by William Dwight Whitney which answers F. Max Müller; would pay expense of printing if necessary.
CD has been abused in the Quarterly Review for "amazing ignorance".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Thomas Knowles |
Date: | 31 July 1874 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9577 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
Darwin, G. H. | (22) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (10) |
Frankland, Edward | (10) |