From G. J. Romanes 20 July 1875
Summary
Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.
Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1875 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10081 |
From the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften 20 July 1875
Author: | Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C8r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10082 |
To the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften [after 20 July 1875]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften |
Date: | [after 20 July 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C8v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10083 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 July 1875
Summary
Would be obliged for correction of references in Variation [1st ed.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 21 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 25–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10084 |
From A. R. Wallace 21 July 1875
Summary
Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10085 |
From Lawson Tait 21 July [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants: observations on the digestive fluid of Nepenthes.
Reproduction of plant by "parthenogenesis".
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10086 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 July [1875]
Summary
Glad to hear that ARW is so busy.
CD believes that he has thrown some light on the acquirement of the power of digestion in Droseraceae [in Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10088 |
From W. T. Thiselton Dyer 23 July 1875
Summary
Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 95, 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10089 |
From J. H. Gilbert 24 July 1875
Summary
Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.
Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10090 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 July 1875
Summary
Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 389 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10091 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 26 July 1875
Summary
No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10094 |
From J. D. Hooker 27 July 1875
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 33–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10095 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 28 July [1875]
Summary
Apologises that he cannot supply any maize seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 28 July [1875] |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10098F |
From Asa Gray 29 July 1875
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10099 |
From Anton Dohrn 29 July 1875
Summary
Regrets he is too busy to accept CD’s invitation to visit Down, but could only thank him again for saving the Zoological Station from shipwreck.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10101 |
From Giovanni Canestrini 29 July 1875
Summary
Italian translation of Variation will at last be published; will await second [English] edition to incorporate corrections.
Asks permission to translate Expression.
The second [Italian] edition of Origin is now in press.
Author: | Giovanni Canestrini |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10102 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 July 1875]
Summary
JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 July 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 1d |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10103 |
From J. D. Hooker [30 July 1875]
Summary
Will be delayed on Saturday because of unveiling of a monument to Sir J. Franklin at Westminster Abbey.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [30 July 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10104 |
From Hermann Müller 7 August 1875
Summary
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Believes Lepidoptera are of greater importance as fertilisers in alpine regions than in lowlands.
The famous stone pits of Ohningen are for sale.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Aug 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10110 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 August [1875]
Summary
Is preparing new edition of Variation and has a query on speed of racehorses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 8 Aug [1875] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10111 |
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