To Donders [after 15 July 1874]
Summary
Wishes he had known of atropia and hopes he will have time to try it next summer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after 15 July 1874] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 May 1993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9548F |
To Francis Darwin [after 23 July 1874]
Summary
Asks for a specimen of Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 23 July 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13796 |
From John Price [27 July 1874]
Summary
Has some Utricularia minor for CD. Has found the bladders on U. vulgaris are not floats.
Thanks CD for book [Descent, 2d ed.].
Author: | John Price |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 July 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9522 |
To J. D. Hooker [before 15 July 1874]
Summary
Suggests experiments to try [with Nepenthes]. Asks JDH to test whether cabbage seeds and peas exposed to the ferment germinate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [before 15 July 1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 38–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9523 |
To Francis Darwin [July 1874 – September 1876]
Summary
Has had a nice stay with William, who is charming but rather languid and cannot read to himself.
Love to Amy [Darwin] and Mrs Ruck.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [July 1874–Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9523A |
To W. E. Darwin 1 July [1874]
Summary
Asks WED to visit Winchester soon and collect Utricularia for him
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 1 July [1874] |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (11 May 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9525F |
From J. D. Hooker 1 July 1874
Summary
Has "given the slip" to Nepenthes, but is setting a plant up in an enclosure for special observation.
Has some splendid Sarracenia and will perform any miracle regarding them CD puts him up to.
Charmed with CD’s account of Pinguicula. Would like to try whether Lychnis has the same use of viscid fluid.
Has written for English Utricularia for CD.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 200–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9526 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 1 July 1874
Summary
Describes leaf movements of Pinguicula and Drosera in capturing prey. Notes effects of ammonium carbonate on leaves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 1 July 1874 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Carnivorous Plants) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9527 |
To Joseph Fayrer [1–3 July 1874]
Summary
Cobra poison is a stimulant to protoplasm. Poison acts very differently on cilia and protoplasm of Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1–3 July 1874] |
Classmark: | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 23 (1874–5): 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9527F |
To J. D. Hooker 2 July 1874
Summary
Thinks Frank and he have worked out Pinguicula well and they long to attack Utricularia. Tried several plants with sticky glandular hairs; some few absorb ammonia, but the greater number do not. If JDH sends plant or seed of Lychnis CD will examine it to see whether it catches many flies. Asa Gray has written him much about Sarracenia, with a specimen showing the splendid dodge by which ground insects are enticed up and then drowned. Describes how it may be investigated, to see whether it absorbs decayed matter from flies, or ammonia thus generated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 322–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9529 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 July 1874
Summary
Sends results of his observations on Nepenthes. Would be grateful for any hints for further observations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 202–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9530 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 July 1874
Summary
It would be interesting to prove that some plants feed on decayed animal matter whilst others like Drosera can digest fresh animal matter. Suggests the method for observing this.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 324–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9532 |
To Joseph Fayrer 4 July [1874]
Summary
Suggests experiment involving cobra poison on white corpuscles. Thanks for offer of Crotalus poison.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 July [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9533 |
From Joseph Fayrer 6 July 1874
Summary
Will do experiments CD suggests.
Is sending his book on the poisonous snakes of India [The Thanatophidia of India (1872)].
Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9534 |
To John Ralfs 8 July 1874
Summary
Thanks for the Pinguicula plants, which have recovered, and asks if he could also send Utricularia, since his other supplies have failed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Ralfs |
Date: | 8 July 1874 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 76527) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9534F |
To F. C. Donders 7 July 1874
Summary
Asks about the effect of atropine on the eye. Is interested in parallel case: influence of phosphate of ammonia on glands of Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Date: | 7 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 417 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9535 |
From J. V. Carus 7 July 1874
Summary
Thanks for proofs [of Descent, 2d English ed.].
Publisher would like better photographs for Expression [2d German ed.].
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9536 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 July 1874
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 204–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9537 |
From E. B. Baxter 8 July 1874
Summary
Sends quotation from R. C. Virchow which contravenes CD’s statement in Expression that there is no voluntary control of the iris.
Author: | Evan Buchanan Baxter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9538 |
To J. V. Carus 9 July [1874]
Summary
Advises JVC on how his publisher might deal with problem of getting satisfactory heliotype copies for 2d [German] edition of Expression.
Regrets that he will again be away in August, when JVC might have come for a visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 9 July [1874] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 116–117) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9539 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Fayrer, Joseph | (2) |
Klein, E. E. | (2) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (59) |
Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
Fayrer, Joseph | (4) |
Romanes, G. J. | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |