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To J. V. Carus   1 July [1875]

Summary

Insectivorous plants to be published in two or three days.

Climbing plants and 2d ed. of Variation will be published early in November.

Has no strength for corrections for the new printing of Origin, though many are desired.

Pleased that JVC will translate Insectivorous plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  1 July [1875]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 145–146)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10038

To M. T. Masters   [July 1875]

Summary

Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  [July 1875]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10038F

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

To J. J. Weir   5 July 1875

Summary

Discusses case of Cytisus graft described by JJW.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Jenner Weir
Date:  5 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 148: 334
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10043

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

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   7 July 1875

Summary

Discusses corrections to Variation.

Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  7 July 1875
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 23–4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10046

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

To J. J. Weir   8 July [1875]

Summary

Is very interested in JJW’s report on a purple laburnum grafted onto yellow stock which then produces yellow flowers. CD requests racemes to examine.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Jenner Weir
Date:  8 July [1875]
Classmark:  Boston Public Library (Rare Books MSS Acc. 324)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10051

From T. S. Baynes   8 July 1875

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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

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Summary

Thanks for copy of CD’s latest work [Insectivorous plants].

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

To M. J. Berkeley   10 July 1875

Summary

Enquires about fairy rings.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:  10 July 1875
Classmark:  The National Library of Wales (NLW St Asaph Diocesan Records SA/CR/219)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10055F

To J. J. Weir   10 July 1875

Summary

Regarding Cytisus graft with yellow flowers, CD thinks nurseryman has sold Cytisus adami to JJW’s brother in place of C. purpureus. This explains apparent "sport". [P.S. on envelope:] C. purpureus seeds freely. C. adami never does.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Jenner Weir
Date:  10 July 1875
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.466); DAR 148: 336
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10056

To M. T. Masters   10 July [1875]

Summary

Thanks MTM for his excellent review [of Insectivorous plants]

and for his trouble about the gooseberry.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  10 July [1875]
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10057

To G. J. Romanes   12 July [1875]

Summary

Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.

Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.

Alludes to Pangenesis.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  12 July [1875]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.471)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10059
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