From Samuel Newington 2 September 1875
Summary
Tells CD of his many experiments on interarching vines, potato tubers, exudation of carbon dioxide from roots,
and the synchrony of the pulse and the step while walking.
Would like to meet CD.
Author: | Samuel Newington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10148 |
From A. J. Stuart 2 September 1875
Summary
Has observed a dun pony with black stripes.
Intends breeding native fowls and will happily furnish CD with any information he can.
Discusses the domestication of animals.
Author: | Andrew John Stuart, 6th Earl Castlestewart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 268 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10149 |
From F. J. Morphy 6 September 1875
Summary
Reports a hybrid ram and sow, the cuino of Mexico, which is very common and fertile.
Author: | Ferdinand Jamison Morphy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10152 |
From Lawson Tait 7 September [1875]
Summary
RLT speculates on the "moral nature" of parental protection shown by humans and traces it back to its first occurrence in the animal world.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10153 |
From Francis Darwin [1 September 1875 or later]
Summary
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Sept 1875 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10153F |
From Federico Delpino 11 September 1875
Summary
Thanks for Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874], which confirms some of his observations,
and for Insectivorous plants, which he praises.
Suggests that a book integrating knowledge of plant–animal interactions be written by a Darwinist.
Defines biology as the science of external interactions.
German reception is far more positive than Italian.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10155 |
From Fritz Müller 12 September 1875
Summary
Has read CD’s book on Drosera [Insectivorous plants] and found that it presents new material and is very interesting.
Has discovered that the parasites he thought he had found in Melipona nests are in fact true females. It is remarkable that they differ so greatly from the sterile females and males of their species.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 318; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (PrP 08-0011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10155A |
From Francis Darwin [15–18 September 1873]
Summary
FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15–18 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156F |
From J. W. Clark 16 September 1875
Summary
Examples of pupillary dilation.
Author: | Joseph Warner Clark |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10158 |
From Woodward Emery 17 September 1875
Summary
Informs CD of Chauncey Wright’s death.
Author: | Woodward Emery |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10160 |
From R. D. Fitzgerald 20 September 1875
Author: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10161 |
From Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg 20 September 1875
Summary
Writing article for a German newspaper on CD’s life. Requests autobiographical information.
Author: | Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10162 |
From Francis Galton 22 September 1875
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A80–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10163 |
From C. E. Norton 22 September 1875
Summary
Reports the death of Chauncey Wright: "a great blow … to the interests of sound thought and scientific inquiry throughout the country".
Author: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | Norton and Howe eds. 1913, 2: 57–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10166 |
From William Ogle [23–4 September 1875]
Summary
Asks whether CD has observed that bees limit their visits to a single kind of flower on each journey from the hive, as Aristotle has said they do. What advantage would such a limitation be to the insects?
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23–4 Sept 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 46.2: C63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10167 |
From Francis Galton 24 September 1875
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10169 |
From N. A. Severtsov 25 September [1875]
Summary
Sends CD the 2d part of his travels into the Tien-shan mountains [Erforschung des Thian-Schan Gebirgs-Systems (1875)].
Has written a paper on the ranges and systematics of wild sheep and on modifications probably resulting from competition with domestic sheep, which he wishes to translate into English and would like to see appended to Variation.
Discusses sexual selection in thrushes; it apparently modifies one species into another.
Author: | Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10172 |
From W. C. Marshall 25 September [1878]
Author: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10173 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 28 September 1875
Summary
Reports on Schrankia aculeata in which pinna and pinnule are sensitive, but, unlike Mimosa pudica, rachis does not move.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.6: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10174 |
From Oswald Heer 28 September 1875
Summary
Comments on Insectivorous plants.
Describes his own work on fossil flora of Eastern Siberia.
Discusses genus Ginkgo.
Author: | Oswald Heer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10175 |
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