To Nature 20 September [1873]
Summary
CD, in commenting on Wyville Thomson’s "Notes from the Challenger" [Nature 8 (1873): 347–9], recapitulates his work on rudimentary male cirripedes [Living Cirripedia], especially the complementary males attached to hermaphrodites. Offers an explanation, on evolutionary grounds, of their function and size.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 20 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 25 September 1873, pp. 431–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061 |
To J. J. Weir 18 September [1873]
Summary
JJW is quite at liberty to use CD’s name as patron of cat show.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 18 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (B MS Misc.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8524 |
To Gerard Krefft [September 1873]
Summary
Thanks for observations on worm-castings and for JLGK’s amusing letter.
Wants to know whether species of Eucalyptus are dichogamous. [The P.S. on Eucalyptus may be part of another letter to another correspondent.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Date: | [Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828); Smithsonian Libraries (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9037 |
To Theodor Gomperz 1 September [1873]
Summary
Will reread and consider TG’s letter when his health improves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Theodor Gomperz |
Date: | 1 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Cedric Hausherr (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9039 |
To W. D. Fox 1 September [1873]
Summary
Has been in bed for some days with ugly head symptoms. "We are a poor lot."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 1 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 152) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9040 |
To Francis Darwin [4 September 1873]
Summary
Asks FD to bring any book that gives the affinities of the various earths, alkalis and metals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [4 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.9: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9040F |
To W. W. Baxter 4 September 1873
Summary
Orders list of chemical salts. Ashamed to order from Hopkins and Williams because they charge him such an extremely low rate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 4 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (August 2015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9042 |
To W. W. Baxter 5 September [1873]
Summary
Orders salts of various metals; thinks chlorides (where soluble) would be better than nitrates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 5 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.431) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9043 |
To James Crichton-Browne 7 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks JC-B for volume of Asylum reports and paper on epilepsy. Seems clear from reports that physiology of brain will soon be largely understood.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 7 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 345 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9045 |
To W. W. Baxter 8 September [1873]
Summary
Requests chemicals for Drosera experiments. Lists 12 acids tried so far.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 8 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 6 (EH 88206058) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9046 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 9 September [1873]
Summary
Pleased JSBS has decided to work on Drosera; sends plants. Does not know whether thermo-electric pile could detect temperature change when leaves close.
CD’s experiment with very weak hydrochloric acid repeated with success: the plants digest albumen more quickly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9047 |
To T. F. Cheeseman 9 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks TFC for his extremely interesting paper ["On the fertilisation of the New Zealand species of Pterostyles", Trans. & Proc. N. Z. Inst. 5 (1872): 352–7]. Has no doubt his explanation [of the fertilisation mechanism] is correct. The case is analogous to that of the Cypripedium though TFC’s case is much more curious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Frederick Cheeseman |
Date: | 9 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS-58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9048 |
To M. D. Conway 12 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks for strange debate, which CD returns. Principle of evolution has first-rate supporters in [Edward Sylvester?] Morse and Theodore Nicholas Gill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
Date: | 12 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9051 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks JDH and Thiselton-Dyer for useful information.
Is surprised Mimosa albida is not sensitive to water. Asks that they try again, or lend it to him.
Remembers a walk in Brazil in great bed of Mimosa.
After JDH left, CD was very bad, with much loss of memory and severe shocks continually passing through his brain.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 274–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9052 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 13 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks JSBS for telegraphing his results, which seem very remarkable; feels he should now try Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9055 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 14 September [1873]
Summary
Very pleased at JSBS’s discovery ["On the electrical phenomena which accompany the contractions of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Rep. BAAS 43 (1873): 133].
Asks for pure animal substances [proteins] for Drosera experiments. His other sources have been T. L. Brunton, Edward Frankland, W. A. Miller (now dead), and Hoffmann of Berlin [A. W. von Hofmann?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9056 |
To E. S. Morse 16 September 1873
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s paper ["On the systematic position of the Brachiopoda", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 15 (1873): 315–72]. "What a wonderful change … to look at these ""shells"" as ""worms""."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Date: | 16 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9058 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 September [1873]
Summary
Obliged for information on Mimosa albida; if a vigorous plant behaves as JDH says, CD’s notions are all knocked on the head.
Anxious to read Tyndall’s answer to Tait [Nature 8 (1873): 399].
Drosera story too long for his strength. Essentially the leaves act just like stomach of an animal.
Burdon Sanderson will give some grand facts at BAAS about Dionaea.
Offers to help JDH with Nepenthes experiments. Finds experimental work always takes twice as much time as anticipated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 277–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059 |
To E. A. Darwin 20 September 1873
Summary
Consults about the wisdom of Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant rather than practising medicine.
Outlines his finances.
[Copy in EAD’s hand.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B1–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9060 |
To Edward Frankland 21 September [1873]
Summary
Although CD’s experiments with pepsin were unsuccessful, he observed that the glands [of Drosera] as far as acid is concerned act just as the stomach of a mammal. Further experiments detailed. The secretion must contain something analogous to pepsin. [See 9062.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 21 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061A |
letter | (29) |
Baxter, W. W. | (4) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (3) |
Cheeseman, T. F. | (1) |
Conway, M. D. | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Frankland, Edward | (3) |
Gomperz, Theodor | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Krefft, Gerard | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Morse, E. S. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Nature | (1) |
Weir, J. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Baxter, W. W. | (4) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (3) |
Frankland, Edward | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |