From G. Chiantore 16 June 1875
Summary
Agrees to wait for the new edition of Variation and accepts Mr Murray’s offer of the clichés at £10. [See 9981.]
Author: | G. Chiantore |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June 1875 |
Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (CD’s Address Book) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10020A |
From R. L. Tait 17 June [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants: the means and site of absorption of digested animal matter. [Newspaper clipping enclosed.]
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10022 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 June 1875
Summary
Thiselton-Dyer’s appointment has come.
Wants to discuss insectivorous plants and get some experiments going.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 30–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10025 |
From Lawson Tait 24 June [1875]
Summary
An article on RLT’s lecture on insectivorous plants has appeared; the author adopts an anti-Darwinian attitude [see "Flower traps", Spectator 19 June 1875, pp. 784–5; RLT’s reply in Spectator 26 June 1875, pp. 816–17.]
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10029 |
From J. W. Clark 25 June 1875
Summary
Observations of fear in animals marked by dilation of pupils.
Author: | Joseph Warner Clark |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10030 |
From J. V. Carus 28 June 1875
Summary
Thinks Insectivorous plants must be translated and published in Germany.
Journal of researches nearly finished.
A new [German] edition of Origin is wanted.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10033 |
From J. G. F. Riedel 30 June 1875
Summary
Pigmentation of Celebesians’ skin changes from birth onward. Passes through some of Paul Broca’s types.
Author: | Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10036 |
From Julius Sachs 4 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Has just finished his Geschichte der Botanik [1875].
Compares action of Drosera glands to action of sprouting embryo and to action of roots in absorbing minerals.
Author: | Julius Sachs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10042 |
From J. J. Weir 6 July 1875
Summary
Yellow flowers occurring on a purple Cytisus grafted onto a yellow stock.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10044 |
From Arnold Dodel 6 July 1875
Summary
Thanks CD for a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Describes experiment on Drosera carried out with his pupils.
Describes reception of the book at the University of Zurich.
Comments on Nägeli’s concept of a "morphological species".
Expresses belief in importance of natural selection.
Mentions his forthcoming publication ["Ulothrix zonata", Jahrb. f. wiss. Bot. 10 (1876): 417–550].
Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10045 |
From John Lubbock 7 July [1875]
Summary
Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10047 |
From James Paget 7 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Intrigued by the analogy between fairy-rings and annular skin diseases, e.g., herpes and psoriasis.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10048 |
From Herbert Spencer 7 July 1875
Summary
Thanks CD for his new volume [Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Herbert Spencer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 234 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10049 |
From J. J. Weir 7 July 1875
Summary
Yellow and purple flowers occur on plant grafted with Cytisus purpureus, but only on separate racemes. Only yellow blooms seed.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10050 |
From T. S. Baynes 8 July 1875
Summary
Asks CD to write short article on breeds and breeding for new edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Huxley has suggested natural history topics to be covered, and recommended CD.
Author: | Thomas Spencer Baynes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10052 |
From Joseph Fayrer 8 July 1875
Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10053 |
From Rudolph Riemann 9 July 1875
Summary
Professional sheep-breeder interested in laws of inheritance reports his crosses between Serinus hortulanus and Dryospiza canaria. Seeks to make a new species. Crosses carried out with animals varying in their proportion of Serinus and Dryospiza parentage. Confirms Prosper Lucas’ law as given in Origin, ch. 9, with exception that strong individuals exhibit prepotency.
Author: | Rudolf Ehrenfried (Rudolf) Riemann |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 157, 157/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10054 |
From J. J. Weir 9 July 1875
Summary
Sends CD some of the Cytisus, which has produced yellow flowers on a purple graft.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10055 |
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 |
From M. J. Berkeley 13 July 1875
Summary
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 |
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