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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

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Summary

On fertilisation in certain orchids.

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

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Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.

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]

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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

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Summary

Sends a lecture CD wished to see

and corrects himself about the twins.

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]

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Observations on insectivorous plants.

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

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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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