From T. L. Brunton 23 May 1874
Summary
Comments on his examination of slides [of milk casein?] sent by CD.
Surprised by CD’s finding that a drop of one per cent hydrochloric acid stops digestion of albumen by Drosera.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 120–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10512 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 23 May [1874 or 1875?]
Summary
"With kind regards, & many thanks for Prof. Steenstrup’s Photograph, which is most highly valued by C. Darwin"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 23 May [1874-5] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (tipped into a copy of Orchids) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5098 |
To J. V. Carus 23 May [1874]
Summary
Descent [2d English ed.] will not be published until November. Will send JVC first sheet of revised proofs soon.
Pleased to hear of success of JVC’s lectures.
Summer plans have changed. Does not yet know when he will take a month’s holiday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 23 May [1874] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 120–121) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9464 |
From G. E. Dobson 23 May 1874
Summary
Sends his paper ["On secondary sexual characters in the Cheiroptera", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 241–52]
and some of his observations of the gecko, which appear to contradict CD’s opinion.
Author: | George Edward Dobson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9465 |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Dobson, G. E. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Dobson, G. E. | (1) |
Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |