From Joseph Fayrer 17 June 1874
Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9497 |
From Michael Foster 17 June [1874]
Summary
Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Shark embryology.
Author: | Michael Foster |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9498 |
To W. D. Fox 18 June 1874
Summary
Asks for living plant of Utricularia and information on Pinguicula lusitanica. Gives notes on habitats.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 18 June 1874 |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9499 |
From W. W. Keen 18 June 1874
Author: | William Williams Keen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9500 |
From Asa Gray 19 June 1874
Summary
Writes of his article in Nature. Corrects some errors that have appeared in the published version.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9501 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 19 June 1874
Summary
Sends cartilage from cat’s ear, the elastic fibres of which will probably resist digestion [by Drosera]. Is preparing fibro-cartilage, which he expects will be digested easily. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 104.]
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 60–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9502 |
From H. W. Jackson 20 June 1874
Summary
Cites instances of invariable correlations of colour he has observed in cats, dogs, and sheep. [See Variation, 2d ed., 2: 316.]
Author: | Henry William Jackson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 203–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9503 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 21 June [1874]
Summary
Thanks for fibrin. Drosera and Pinguicula dissolve it thoroughly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 June [1874] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9504 |
From T. M. Coan 22 June 1874
Author: | Titus Munson Coan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9506 |
From W. D. Fox 22 June [1874]
Summary
Will try to get certain insectivorous plants for CD, especially Utricularia. Is glad to hear he has taken up Drosera.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 198, 198/2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9507 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 23 June 1874
Summary
Has found Pinguicula excited by bits of leaves; appears to digest leaves and seeds. Plant not only insectivorous but graminivorous. Asks WTT-D to identify seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 23 June 1874 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 12–13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9508 |
From T. C. Copland 23 June 1874
Summary
Sends a description of Drosera dichotoma and its manner of fly-catching [see Insectivorous plants, p. 282].
Author: | Thomas Cooke Copland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 62–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9509 |
From T. H. Huxley 25 June 1874
Summary
Returns proof of his note on brain for 2d ed. of Descent. Has added a reference to Abbé Lecomte’s "terrible pamphlet" [Le Darwinisme et l’origine de l’homme (1873)] "lest it be thought I meant our cher Owen".
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9510 |
To Asa Gray 25 June 1874
Summary
Remarks on his work on Pinguicula. Notes its digestive power; it absorbs nutritious matter from leaves and seeds as well as insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 25 June 1874 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (108) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9511 |
From John Ball 25 June [1874]
Summary
Received CD’s note late and so could not comply, but promises to vote in future for anyone CD recommends for Athenaeum.
Will have new evidence on dog’s intelligence sent to CD.
Author: | John Ball |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9512 |
To Joseph Fayrer [before 25 June 1874]
Summary
Sends observations of poison acting on glands of Drosera. Poison acts as a stimulant to protoplasm. Very remarkable that poison acts so differently on the cilia and protoplasm of Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Date: | [before 25 June 1874] |
Classmark: | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 23 (1874–5): 273–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9512F |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 June 1874
Summary
Reports on his examination of the dried specimens of Pinguicula at Kew to answer CD’s query whether all species secrete.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 64–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9513 |
From Joseph Fayrer 25 June 1874
Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9514 |
To John Ralfs [after 25 June 1874]
Summary
Wants particularly to know whether seeds or leaves of other plants are ever found adhering to the leaves of Pinguicula. Observations would perhaps best be made in a month or two.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Ralfs |
Date: | [after 25 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 59.1: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9514F |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 26 June 1874
Summary
Thanks for letter and seeds.
Asks that Hooker return references about plants eating insects.
Discusses Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 26 June 1874 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 14–15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9515 |
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Gray, Asa | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
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