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DCP-LETT-10099

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 188
Summary:

Has received but not yet read Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10100

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 459
Summary:

Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10101

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 217
Summary:

Regrets he is too busy to accept CD’s invitation to visit Down, but could only thank him again for saving the Zoological Station from shipwreck.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10102

From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 36
Summary:

Italian translation of Variation will at last be published; will await second [English] edition to incorporate corrections.

Asks permission to translate Expression.

The second [Italian] edition of Origin is now in press.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10103

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 1d
Summary:

JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10104

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 35
Summary:

Will be delayed on Saturday because of unveiling of a monument to Sir J. Franklin at Westminster Abbey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10105

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 460
Summary:

RC will confer with printer about type, etc., for reprint of Variation.

Only 250 copies remain of [2d ed. of] Descent – will print 1000 more for annual sale.

Expression does not move.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10106

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
Date:
1 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Australia (MS 760/2/10–11)
Summary:

Thanks AD for her account [of the regrowth of her sister’s amputated supernumerary finger]. Is much perplexed what to conclude. Feels he should either retract his account [in Variation, 1st ed., 2: 14–15] or substantiate it by judgment of a physiologist like James Paget. Asks for tracings of her sister’s hand. [See Variation, 2d ed., 1: 459].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10107

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 461
Summary:

Murray is willing to make same arrangement with D. Appleton for Climbing plants as for Insectivorous plants.

There will be no difficulty about corrections for reprint of Descent, providing new matter fills same space as old.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10108

From:
Alice Margaret Stanley; Alice Margaret Lane Fox; Alice Margaret Pitt-Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 171
Summary:

Hexadactyly. Regrowth of removed supernumerary digits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10108A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
Date:
4 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
Sophie Dupré (dealer) (Catalogue 25, 1992)
Summary:

CD sends his thanks for her intercession with her sister [Alice Chambers]. The extract from her father’s [Robert Chambers] diary will be sufficient.

He forwards the requested autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10109

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 462
Summary:

Giovanni Canestrini should be reminded that before any plates for another of CD’s books can be sent, payment must be made for those already sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10110

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 304
Summary:

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Believes Lepidoptera are of greater importance as fertilisers in alpine regions than in lowlands.

The famous stone pits of Ohningen are for sale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10111

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
8 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Is preparing new edition of Variation and has a query on speed of racehorses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10112

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 463
Summary:

Sends papers concerned with [copyright?] registration for French and German editions [of Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10113

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 464
Summary:

Encloses specimens of type for Variation [2d ed.].

Thinks Climbing plants [2d ed.] had better be kept in type; 1500 copies to be printed, with stereotypes to be made for Appleton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10114

From:
Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 240
Summary:

Has re-examined her sister’s extra finger. Reports her sister’s recollections regarding its regrowth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10115

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
11 Aug 1875
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Apologises for keeping the tables so long [see 10090]. The results seem extremely curious.

Comments on paper by JHG and J. B. Lawes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10115F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Suess
Date:
11 Aug 1875
Source of text:
Archive of the University of Vienna (Eduard Suess papers 131.103.2.1.26 photocopy), original in a private collection, 1991
Summary:

Thanks for a copy of Suess 1875.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10116

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 465
Summary:

It would be an advantage to start printing vol. 1 of Variation [2d ed.] at once, if CD can release it. Knotty problem: the number of copies to be printed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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