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To Lawson Tait   [after 17 June 1875]

Summary

RLT will find abundant evidence of absorption by Aldrovanda in CD’s forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants]. Congratulates him on his discovery of ferments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  [after 17 June 1875]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10019

From Lawson Tait   16 June [1875]

Summary

Is waiting impatiently for the appearance of CD’s book [Insectivorous plants].

Author:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 June [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10020

From G. Chiantore   16 June 1875

Summary

Agrees to wait for the new edition of Variation and accepts Mr Murray’s offer of the clichés at £10. [See 9981.]

Author:  G. Chiantore
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 June 1875
Classmark:  English Heritage, Down House (CD’s Address Book)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10020A

To J. V. Carus   17 June [1875]

Summary

Sends clean sheets of Insectivorous plants. JVC will now be able to judge whether it is worth translating. The book has wearied him and cost much labour.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  17 June [1875]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 143–144)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10021

From R. L. Tait   17 June [1875]

Summary

Insectivorous plants: the means and site of absorption of digested animal matter. [Newspaper clipping enclosed.]

Author:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 June [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10022

To Lawson Tait   17 [July 1875]

Summary

Informs RLT of J. D. Hooker’s work on Nepenthes ["Nepenthaceae, Cytinaceae", in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by A. P. de Candolle (1873), 17: 90–116].

Has asked JDH to try secretions of pitchers that had caught no insects.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  17 [July 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 221.5: 27
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10023

To J. D. Hooker   19 June [1875]

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Summary

Has come to Abinger Hall for a rest after Insectivorous plants, soon to appear. Is sick of the accursed subject.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  19 June [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 386–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10024

From J. D. Hooker   20 June 1875

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Thiselton-Dyer’s appointment has come.

Wants to discuss insectivorous plants and get some experiments going.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 June 1875
Classmark:  DAR 104: 30–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10025

To J. D. Hooker   22 June 1875

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Rejoices at [Thiselton-Dyer’s] appointment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  22 June 1875
Classmark:  DAR 95: 388
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10026

To Linnean Society   23 June 1875

Summary

Gives a report on a paper by Thomas Powell on coral islands ["Notes on the nature and productions of several atolls of the Tokelan, Ellice, and Gilbert Groups, South Pacific", read 15 Apr 1875, not published].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Linnean Society
Date:  23 June 1875
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London (SP.917)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10027

To R. F. Cooke   24 June [1875]

Summary

Insectivorous plants ready for publication. Asks price. Suggests advertisements in Nature and Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Francis Cooke
Date:  24 June [1875]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 338–9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10028

From Lawson Tait   24 June [1875]

Summary

An article on RLT’s lecture on insectivorous plants has appeared; the author adopts an anti-Darwinian attitude [see "Flower traps", Spectator 19 June 1875, pp. 784–5; RLT’s reply in Spectator 26 June 1875, pp. 816–17.]

Author:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 June [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10029

From J. W. Clark   25 June 1875

Summary

Observations of fear in animals marked by dilation of pupils.

Author:  Joseph Warner Clark
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 June 1875
Classmark:  DAR 161: 154
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10030

To C. V. Riley   25 June [1875]

Summary

Is staying at a friend’s [T. H. Farrer’s] house for rest until after 6 July, so cannot see CVR at Down.

Hopes he thanked CVR for the last Report [one of CVR’s Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects of the State of Missouri (1868–76)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Valentine Riley
Date:  25 June [1875]
Classmark:  Empire Autograph Auctions (dealers) (1 January 2008)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10030F

To Mr Russell   26 June [1875]

Summary

Is sorry his correspondent has had so much trouble about his address. Suggests he send the book from R. D. Fitzgerald [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)] either by post or by rail.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Mr Russell
Date:  26 June [1875]
Classmark:  Nate’s Autographs (dealer) (January 1995)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10031F

To R. F. Cooke   27 June [1875]

Summary

Sorry to hear price of 15s [for Insectivorous plants]. Asks that JM consider 14s. Fears small sale at 15s. It is his fault – he never can help making his books too big.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Francis Cooke
Date:  27 June [1875]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 336–7)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10032

From J. V. Carus   28 June 1875

Summary

Thinks Insectivorous plants must be translated and published in Germany.

Journal of researches nearly finished.

A new [German] edition of Origin is wanted.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 June 1875
Classmark:  DAR 161: 101
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10033

From J. G. F. Riedel   30 June 1875

Summary

Pigmentation of Celebesians’ skin changes from birth onward. Passes through some of Paul Broca’s types.

Author:  Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 June 1875
Classmark:  DAR 176: 155
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10036

To W. C. Williamson   30 June [1875]

Summary

Thanks WCW for sending his lecture ‘The dawn of animal life’, which seems "a wonderfully clear & interesting sketch of the lower organisms".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Crawford Williamson
Date:  30 June [1875]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 March 1973)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10037

To F. J. Cohn   [30 June 1875]

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CD’s publisher is sending FJC an early copy of Insectivorous plants, in which he hopes that FJC’s admirable papers are acknowledged with the respect that they deserve.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  [30 June 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10037A
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