To ? 8 June 1874
Summary
Asks about insects and seeds on leaves of Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 8 June 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.435) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9230 |
From Leonard Darwin [before 27 June 1874]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 27 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9196 |
From W. E. Darwin [before 18 June 1874]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 18 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 137; Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9201 |
From Thomas Aitken [c. 25 June 1874]
Summary
Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.
Author: | Thomas Aitken |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 25 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 150–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9204 |
From J. M. Grandclément [after 15 June 1874]
Summary
Thanks CD for his answer to his letter. It has not convinced him – he still sees no reason to believe in the prophylactic effect of the vaccine.
Sends an article he has written answering Émile Blanchard of the Academy. Naturalists in France who occupy official positions are not independent.
Author: | Joseph Marie Grandclément |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 15 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9479 |
To C. H. Merriam 1 June 1874
Summary
Thanks CHM for a report about birds of the United States [see 9461].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Clinton Hart Merriam |
Date: | 1 June 1874 |
Classmark: | Waverly Auctions (dealers) (9 March 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9479A |
To Asa Gray 3 June [1874]
Summary
CD is deeply pleased by AG’s article on him in Nature [10 (1874): 79–81].
Is preparing book on "Drosera and Co." for the printers. Reports observations on digestion in Drosera and Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 June [1874] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9480 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 4 June 1874
Summary
Discusses effects of water on movement of insectivorous plants.
Has just found that Pinguicula can digest albumen.
Asa Gray writes that Sarracenia secretes trail of fluid to attract insects [see 9455].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 4 June 1874 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 8–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9481 |
To I. L. Donnelly 5 June [1874]
Summary
Thanks ID for interesting and curious facts but doubts that he will have time to enter more closely into the subject of the intellect of animals.
Nothing would give CD more "pleasure & interest" than to see ID’s country, "now so great & destined to be so much greater", but he is quite incapable of "so great an exertion as crossing the Atlantic".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ignatius Loyola (Ignatius) Donnelly |
Date: | 5 June [1874] |
Classmark: | Minnesota Historical Society (Ignatius Donnelly papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9482 |
To Asa Gray 5 June [1874]
Summary
Profoundly grateful for AG’s article in Nature; he is especially pleased by what AG says about teleology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 5 June [1874] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (104) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9483 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 5 June 1874
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 56–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9484 |
To W. C. Marshall 8 June [1874]
Summary
Asks what proportion of leaves of Pinguicula have insects adhering to them. Also, whether seeds of any plants ever adhere to the leaves, and in what situations does P. vulgaris grow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Date: | 8 June [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C61–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9485F |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 June 1874
Summary
Did not know cabbage contained so much nitrogen.
Pinguicula more excited by seeds than Drosera. Asks for information about Pinguicula.
Asks name of weed.
Asks to borrow Utricularia plant.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 9 June 1874 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9486 |
To G. H. Darwin 10 June 1874
Summary
Comments on GHD’s paper ["Marriages between first cousins in England and their effects", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 18 (1875): 22–41]. Hopes it will be published and read at the Statistical Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9487 |
From J. T. Moggridge 11 June 1874
Summary
Charles Martins has given the first Darwinian lectures on zoology at Montpellier.
Joseph Duval-Jouve is also a Darwinian. The latter has lost his position as Inspector of the Academy because of his liberal views.
Wallace suggests that a trap-door spider with an exposed nest preys on nocturnal insects.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9488 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 12 June 1874
Summary
JSBS’s article in Nature ["Venus’s fly-trap", 10 (1874): 105–7, 127–8] could not have been better done.
Has found another plant, Pinguicula, which can catch and digest flies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 June 1874 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9489 |
To J. T. Moggridge 12 June [1874]
Summary
Did not know Duval-Jouve was an evolutionist.
Delighted at JTM’s success with spiders.
On JTM’s experiments with acids on seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 12 June [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 382 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9490 |
From Asa Gray 16 June 1874
Summary
AG’s article in Nature was "just and moderate".
Sends his review of C. Hodge’s What is Darwinism? (1874) [Nation 18 (1874): 348–51].
It is uphill work making a theist out of CD.
Gives further observations on Sarracenia variolaris.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9492 |
From Ferdinand von Mueller 16 June 1874
Summary
Wants information from CD for a revision of the supplement of his work on timber trees and other industrial plants [Proc. Zool. & Acclim. Soc. Victoria 3 (1874): 47–95].
Reports the ruin of his department thanks to two papers by Edward Wilson, McKinnon, and Sparrow.
Author: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 283 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9494 |
To J. V. Carus 17 June [1874]
Summary
Asks JVC if he can provide introductions in Leipzig and Dresden for his son George.
Has not yet received any revised sheets of Descent [2d English ed.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 June [1874] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 118–119) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9495 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Fayrer, Joseph | (3) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (7) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Ball, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (54) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (10) |
Gray, Asa | (6) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (4) |
Fayrer, Joseph | (4) |