To ? 18 July [1873?]
Summary
Comments on ability of recipient to move his scalp.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 July [1873?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.430) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8982 |
To Nature [before 24 July 1873]
Summary
Sends a letter from J. D. Hague confirming his earlier observation [see 8788] of frightened behaviour of ants when they come upon dead ants. CD had asked for confirmation because J. T. Moggridge had suggested that the ants’ behaviour was alarm at the scent of the observer’s fingers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 24 July 1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 24 July 1873, p. 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8985 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1873]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on G. J. Allman’s work. Approves of JDH’s text proposing GJA for Royal Medal.
Will be proud to see General Richard Strachey at Down – a truly great man.
Specimens of Drosera are waiting to be examined.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 July [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 265–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8960 |
To Friedrich Max Müller 3 July 1873
Summary
Thanks FMM for his "Lectures [on Mr Darwin’s philosophy of language", Fraser’s Mag. n.s. 7 (1873): 525–41, 659–78].
CD is not worthy to be FMM’s adversary as he knows very little about language and, being fully convinced man is descended from some lower animal, he is forced to believe a priori that language has developed from inarticulate cries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Max Müller |
Date: | 3 July 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 425 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8962 |
To C. H. Blackley 5 July [1873]
Summary
Comments on CHB’s book [Experimental researches on catarrhus aestivus – hay-fever or hay-asthma (1873)].
Explains that some pollens are wind-blown while others depend on insects for dispersal. Effect of pollen on skin and mucous membrane astonishing. Sends a book [M. Wyman, Autumnal catarrh (1872)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Harrison Blackley |
Date: | 5 July [1873] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms.84.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8965 |
To George King 6 July 1873
Summary
Thanks for specimens and information about worm-castings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George King |
Date: | 6 July 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8966 |
To A. R. Wallace 9 July [1873]
Summary
Forwards photograph, sent by [J. L. G.] Krefft, of a chrysalis attached to its food-plant; the chrysalis has adjusted its colour remarkably.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 9 July [1873] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350 Box 1 Wallace MSS) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8970 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 9 July [1873]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his kind and generous exertions [to get CD elected to French Academy?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 9 July [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.409) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8972 |
To Gerard Krefft 12 July [1873]
Summary
Thanks JLGK for photos of natives of Queensland.
Asks if he can observe whether worms throw up castings in wet weather.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Date: | 12 July [1873] |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8975 |
To Edward Frankland 12 July 1873
Summary
Seeks the assistance of a professional chemist in securing a qualitative analysis of the fluid secreted by the glands of Drosera which have the power of dissolving animal matter out of the bodies of insects. [See 8979.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 12 July 1873 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8977A |
To Henry Edwards 15 July [1873]
Summary
HE’s facts about the Mexican ant [Myrmecocystus mexicanus] are "most wonderful & interesting".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Edwards |
Date: | 15 July [1873] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8978 |
To Edward Frankland 16 July [1873]
Summary
Thanks EF for his offer of assistance. Could the viscid secretions [in glands of Drosera] contain pepsin? Will the sodium carbonate render the testing of organic matter difficult? [See 8979.] Will send the fluid in a fortnight.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 16 July [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8980A |
To Edward Frankland 18 July [1873]
Summary
Agrees to delay sending the fluid [from the glands of Drosera] until early October. Will try suggestion about pepsin. [See 8981.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 18 July [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8982A |
To Armand Sabatier 24 July 1873
Summary
Thanks for Études sur la coeur et la circulation centrale dans la série des vertébrés (Studies on the heart and the central circulation in the vertebrate series; Sabatier 1873).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Armand Sabatier |
Date: | 24 July 1873 |
Classmark: | Colby College Libraries |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8986F |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 25 July 1873
Summary
Describes his recent work on Drosera digestion of organic materials, e.g., albumen and gelatin. Edward Frankland has given CD a rough test for pepsin. Some plant extracts cause as much inflection as meat. Has found some reversible inflection with heat and perhaps some heat rigor. Has measured the extreme sensitivity of Drosera with very dilute solution of ammonium phosphate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 July 1873 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8987 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 July [1873]
Summary
Has three common garden plants of which he needs to know correct names; will send specimens as soon as he hears JDH is back.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 July [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8991 |
To James Dewar and J. G. M‘Kendrick 15 July 1873
Summary
Thanks for the three essays: although they are beyond his scope, they seem to him very interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dewar; John Gray M‘Kendrick |
Date: | 15 July 1873 |
Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS DIe/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8979F |
letter | (17) |
Frankland, Edward | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Blackley, C. H. | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Dewar, James | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Frankland, Edward | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Blackley, C. H. | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |