From ? 13 September 1874
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9635 |
From W. J. L. Wharton [15 September 1874 or later]
Author: | William James Lloyd Wharton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Sept 1874 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A67–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9205 |
To Francis Darwin [17 September 1874]
Summary
Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [17 Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9218 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 4 September 1874]
Summary
Forwards a letter reporting on a blow-fly trapped by a leaf of Dionaea; decomposition of fly has also decomposed the leaf. JDH has written asking for a strong plant, and explaining the case [of surfeit].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 222–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9615 |
From Theodosia Marshall [September 1874]
Summary
Sends count of remains on Pinguicula leaves.
Author: | Theodosia Louisa Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9616 |
From James Ross September 1874
Summary
Sends his book [On protoplasm (1874)], which defends CD’s theory.
Suggests why the lips are closed and the teeth clenched in the expression of determination: it originated as a means of protecting jaw-bone and teeth against a strong blow.
Author: | James Ross |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9617 |
To A. W. Howitt [September 1874]
Summary
Thanks Howitt for his offer of information from Australia and suggests that Howitt keep detailed notes for a future publication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Howitt |
Date: | [Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | M. H. Walker 1971, pp. 221 and 338 n. 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9617F |
To John Lubbock [before 17 September 1874]
Summary
Sends MS intended some day for the Viola tricolor section of Cross and self-fertilisation [pp. 123–8] to be used by JL in his British wild flowers (1875).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [before 17 Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645:107) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9618 |
From Charles Lyell 1 September 1874
Summary
Comments on Tyndall’s [Presidential] Address at Belfast meeting [of BAAS] and praise of CD’s work there. Mentions criticism of Belfast clergy.
CL saw some crustacean footprints while in Ireland.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 445-6; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9619 |
To Charles Lyell 3 September [1874]
Summary
Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.
Describes his holiday in Southampton.
Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9621 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 3 September [1874]
Summary
Will prepare experiments with the fatty acids on digestion of gluten. Has found it is digested slowly, but entirely, with pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9623 |
From Chauncey Wright 3 September 1874
Summary
Writes at length on the origins and meanings of particular head movements as used to express assent or disagreement, especially the sideways movements of the head as an expression of consideration or contemplation.
Also discusses space and colour perception.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 172, 173 f. 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9624 |
From T. L. Brunton 4 September 1874
Summary
Observations of effect of pepsin and hydrochloric acid on urea indicate that it is not digested [by Drosera].
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 86–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9625 |
From W. C. Marshall 5 September [1874]
Summary
Sends Pinguicula vulgaris leaves with seeds on them, together with his observations on proportion of leaves with insects on them.
Author: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 128–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9626 |
To W. C. Marshall 7 September [1874]
Summary
Thanks for the Pinguicula leaves, from which he has picked off sixteen seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Date: | 7 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | Stockholms Auktionsverk (dealers) (15 December 2015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9627F |
To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 334–335 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9629 |
From H. C. Sorby 9 September 1874
Summary
Reports on his spectroscopic examination of the colouring matter in the hairs (tentacles) of Drosera.
Author: | Henry Clifton Sorby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 88–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9630 |
From John Price 10 September 1874
Author: | John Price |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9631 |
To James Verrell? 13 September [1874]
Summary
Should like to borrow again a volume which he returned in error. Requests The Quarterly Magazine of the High Wycombe Natural History Society for 1867 and 1868 to locate paper on Utricularia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Verrell |
Date: | 13 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | Gallery of History (dealers) (20 October 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9635A |
From S. W. Pennypacker 14 September 1874
Summary
He has physical peculiarities that support CD’s theories: e.g., ability to dilate nostrils like a rabbit and to spread out the toes of both feet.
Author: | Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9636 |
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