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 |
To Mr Russell 12 July 1875
Summary
Acknowledges with thanks "Mr Fitzgerald’s magnificent work" [R. D. Fitzgerald’s Australian orchids, part 1 (1875)]. [See 10069.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mr Russell |
Date: | 12 July 1875 |
Classmark: | James Lowe Autographs (dealer) (Cat. 42) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10061A |
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 |
To J. J. Weir 14 July 1875
Summary
JJW is to think no more about mistake [regarding Cytisus graft].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 14 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 337 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10064 |
From G. J. Romanes 14 July 1875
Summary
Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1875 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10065 |
From Lawson Tait 15 July [1875]
Summary
Has read Insectivorous plants and is to review it for the Spectator.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10066 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 15 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10067 |
From William Clowes & Sons 15 July 1875
Summary
First proof of errata slip for inclusion in Insectivorous plants 2d thousand.
Author: | William Clowes & Sons |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10067F |
To R. D. Fitzgerald 16 July 1875
Summary
Thanks RDF for a part of his book [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)]; suggests further observations RDF could make and defends some of his own conclusions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
Date: | 16 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10069 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 16 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for JSBS’s essays; wishes he had said something on Lister’s observations. Speculates on the fungoid nature of smallpox and why there is seldom re-infection.
Discusses digestion by Drosera, the action of its secretion being the same as that of gastric juice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 16 July 1875 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10070 |
From Charlotte Papé 16 July 1875
Summary
Wants to study hereditary mental characters to see whether they are limited by sex – an idea CD holds provisionally and which she doubts. She sends a questionnaire form that she asks CD to criticise. Has read Francis Galton [Hereditary genius (1869)].
Author: | Charlotte Papé |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10072 |
From W. D. Fox 16 July [1875]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10073 |
To A. W. Bennett 17 July [1875]
Summary
Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | 17 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10074 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 17 July 1875
Summary
Asks about FH’s research on maize. Suggests experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 17 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10075 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 17 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for KLR’s latest work (Rütimeyer 1875).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 17 July 1875 |
Classmark: | EAC Gallery (dealers) (autumn 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10075F |
To G. J. Romanes 18 July 1875
Summary
Comments on GJR’s experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 18 July 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.472) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10076 |
From William Clowes & Sons 19 July 1875
Summary
Errata slip forInsectivorous plants
Author: | William Clowes & Sons |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B22; DAR 94: 1a (cover) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10076F |
To Georg von Seidlitz 17 July 1875
Summary
Is obliged to be given a second and improved edition of GKMvS’s excellent lectures.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz |
Date: | 17 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Zoologische Staatssammlung München |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10077F |
From Lawson Tait 19 July [1875]
Summary
Sends a note on the ferment of the Nepenthes secretion, which he asks CD to forward to Nature if he thinks it worth while [see "Insectivorous plants", Nature 12 (1875): 251–2].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10078 |
To Lawson Tait 20 July [1875]
Summary
CD returns MS of a paper by RLT. "If you have succeeded in separating the ferment, the fact is manifestly important." Asks whether RLT tested the digestive ability of fluid from pitchers without animal matter. This would be necessary to prove that there was ferment in the fluid. CD is glad to hear about the [passage?] for guiding insects; he had guessed this to be the case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 20 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10080 |
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