To Donders [after 15 July 1874]
Summary
Wishes he had known of atropia and hopes he will have time to try it next summer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after 15 July 1874] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 May 1993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9548F |
To Francis Darwin [after 23 July 1874]
Summary
Asks for a specimen of Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 23 July 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13796 |
To J. D. Hooker [before 15 July 1874]
Summary
Suggests experiments to try [with Nepenthes]. Asks JDH to test whether cabbage seeds and peas exposed to the ferment germinate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [before 15 July 1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 38–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9523 |
To Francis Darwin [July 1874 – September 1876]
Summary
Has had a nice stay with William, who is charming but rather languid and cannot read to himself.
Love to Amy [Darwin] and Mrs Ruck.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [July 1874–Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9523A |
To W. E. Darwin 1 July [1874]
Summary
Asks WED to visit Winchester soon and collect Utricularia for him
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 1 July [1874] |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (11 May 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9525F |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 1 July 1874
Summary
Describes leaf movements of Pinguicula and Drosera in capturing prey. Notes effects of ammonium carbonate on leaves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 1 July 1874 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Carnivorous Plants) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9527 |
To Joseph Fayrer [1–3 July 1874]
Summary
Cobra poison is a stimulant to protoplasm. Poison acts very differently on cilia and protoplasm of Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1–3 July 1874] |
Classmark: | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 23 (1874–5): 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9527F |
To J. D. Hooker 2 July 1874
Summary
Thinks Frank and he have worked out Pinguicula well and they long to attack Utricularia. Tried several plants with sticky glandular hairs; some few absorb ammonia, but the greater number do not. If JDH sends plant or seed of Lychnis CD will examine it to see whether it catches many flies. Asa Gray has written him much about Sarracenia, with a specimen showing the splendid dodge by which ground insects are enticed up and then drowned. Describes how it may be investigated, to see whether it absorbs decayed matter from flies, or ammonia thus generated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 322–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9529 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 July 1874
Summary
It would be interesting to prove that some plants feed on decayed animal matter whilst others like Drosera can digest fresh animal matter. Suggests the method for observing this.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 324–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9532 |
To Joseph Fayrer 4 July [1874]
Summary
Suggests experiment involving cobra poison on white corpuscles. Thanks for offer of Crotalus poison.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 July [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9533 |
To John Ralfs 8 July 1874
Summary
Thanks for the Pinguicula plants, which have recovered, and asks if he could also send Utricularia, since his other supplies have failed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Ralfs |
Date: | 8 July 1874 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 76527) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9534F |
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 |
letter | (31) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Donders, F. C. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Donders, F. C. | (2) |
Fayrer, Joseph | (2) |
Price, John | (2) |
Ralfs, John | (2) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Belt, Thomas | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Frankland, Edward | (1) |
Knowles, J. T. | (1) |
Moir, David | (1) |
Moore, David | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |