To G. H. Darwin 27 May [1874]
Summary
D. A. Spalding has asked for information to help with his experiments on sense of direction in animals. Has arrived at same results as GHD with blindfolded children. Will GHD let him have his results?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9472 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 27 May [1874]
Summary
Thanks JSBS for his work. CD concludes the ferment of Drosera must differ from pepsin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 27 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9473 |
To G. H. Darwin [29 May 1874]
Summary
CD has forwarded proofs of Descent [2d edition]. Urges GHD not to work on them if his poor health makes them too tiring.
Thanks GHD about Spalding [i.e., for responding to Spalding’s request, see 9472].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [29 May 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9474 |
From G. H. Darwin 30 May 1874
Summary
Intends to keep working on [Descent, 2d ed.] proofs despite his illness.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9475 |
To Gaston de Saporta 30 May 1874
Summary
Thanks GdeS for his "Études sur la végétation" [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 5th ser. 15 (1872): 277–315]. "Nothing can be more important … than your evidence of the extremely slow and gradual manner in which specific forms change."
Hopes GdeS will shed light on whether polymorphic forms like Rubus and Hieracium are generating new species at present; CD doubts this.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Date: | 30 May 1874 |
| Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9476 |
To Charles Lyell 31 May [1874]
Summary
Comments on CL’s planned bequest to science. CD would do the same if he had fewer sons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 31 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.442) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9477 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 May 1874
Summary
Movement in plants; effect of syringing on Opuntia plants that capture insects with their flowers.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9478 |
From T. M. Story-Maskelyne 4 May 1874
Summary
Reply to CD’s letter in Nature ["Flowers of the primrose", Collected papers 2: 183–4]. She has a canary that eats primroses.
| Author: | Thereza Mary Llewelyn; Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 May 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9426 |
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