To J. D. Hooker 1 October [1874]
Summary
Thanks JDH for extract on Hedychium pollination; it shows CD’s prior interpretation was incorrect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 421–422 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9665 |
From H. W. Bates 1 October 1874
Summary
Notes that Mr[s] Barber’s communication [forwarded by CD] will be published because of more striking than usual facts ["Notes on … larva and pupa of Papilio nireus", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1874): 519–21].
Encloses Thomas Belt’s address.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9666 |
From F. J. Cohn 4 October 1874
Summary
An account of his observations on Aldrovanda and Utricularia.
Sends CD his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1875) Heft 3: 71–92] in advance of publication [see Insectivorous plants, pp. 321 et seq., 395–6].
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9667 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 October 1874
Summary
Thanks JC-B for copy of Medical Reports of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.451) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9668 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 9 October 1874
Summary
Has been testing the digestive powers of Drosera; wants to know whether a group of substances that elicit similar responses are related.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9669 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 October 1874
Summary
Asks JDH for leaves of Byblis and Roridula to examine, and D. Oliver for an anomalous species of Utricularia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 341a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9670 |
From Edward Frankland 9 October 1874
Summary
Sends information CD requested on phosphate of ammonia and on nitrogenous substances produced during putrefaction of animal matter.
Author: | Edward Frankland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9671 |
To Thomas Meehan 9 October 1874
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 353 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9672 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 October 1874
Summary
Oliver will attend to his letter.
Tells of discovery and rediscovery of Aldrovanda.
Asks what CD thinks of "old Pritchard’s discourse" [C. Pritchard, Natural science and natural religion (1874)]. Does not affect evolution at all. It does affect the rather unprofitable doctrine of materialism.
His plans for the Royal Society Presidential Address.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 226–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9673 |
To Edward Frankland 11 October 1874
Summary
Acknowledges the information about the phosphate and about putrefaction. Regrets that there is no knowledge of the conjectured substance. [See 9671.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 11 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9673A |
From Daniel Oliver 12 October 1874
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9675 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 12 October 1874
Summary
Suggests an explanation for difference in excitability of Drosera leaves to meat and albumen on the one hand and, on the other, fibrin, areolar tissue, gelatin, and fibrous basis of bone.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 101–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9676 |
From W. H. M. Christie 12 October 1874
Author: | William Henry Mahoney Christie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9677 |
To F. J. Cohn 12 October 1874
Summary
CD responds [to 9667] with description of his own effort to study Aldrovanda and his observations on the structure of Dionaea.
His admiration for FJC’s earlier studies of the Venus’s fly-trap.
He urges FJC to proceed promptly with publication of his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 1, Heft 3 (1875): 71–92].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9677A |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 13 October 1874
Summary
Discusses the powers of digestion of Drosera and why certain substances produce less excitement in the plant than others.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9678 |
To W. H. M. Christie 13 October [1874]
Summary
Thanks WHMC and the Astronomer Royal for informing him of the safe arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at New Zealand. [See 9677.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Mahoney Christie |
Date: | 13 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | CUL-RGO 6/273 (section 3-4: 381) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9678A |
To Daniel Oliver 14 October 1874
Summary
Thanks him for specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 14 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.452) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9679 |
To Auguste Forel 15 October 1874
Summary
Writes about AHF’s book on Swiss ants.
Recounts his own observations on ants carrying cocoons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel |
Date: | 15 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:793) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9680 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 16 October [1874]
Summary
Responds to CD’s questions about relation to gelatin of areolar tissue, fibrous basis of bone, and other substances CD is using in his work on digestion of Drosera.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 104–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9681 |
To W. B. Dawkins 18 October [1874]
Summary
Thanks WBD for his book, Cave hunting (1874).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 18 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | Buxton Museum and Art Gallery |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9682 |
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Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
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Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (4) |
Oliver, Daniel | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |