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DCP-LETT-10070F

From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 July 1875]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 17 July 1875, p. 78
Summary:

Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10071

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 457
Summary:

The second printing of 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants] has sold out. Will print 750 more [3000 in all]. Mudie’s Library and Simpkin & Co. have ordered more copies.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10072

From:
Charlotte Papé
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 27
Summary:

Wants to study hereditary mental characters to see whether they are limited by sex – an idea CD holds provisionally and which she doubts. She sends a questionnaire form that she asks CD to criticise. Has read Francis Galton [Hereditary genius (1869)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10073

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 200
Summary:

Thanks CD for Insectivorous plants.

Is coming to London and hopes to visit Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10074

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
17 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 86
Summary:

Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10074F

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
William Clowes & Sons
Date:
17 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B21, B23, B50
Summary:

Errata for Insectivorous plants, 3d printing.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10075

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
17 July 1875
Source of text:
Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018
Summary:

Asks about FH’s research on maize. Suggests experiments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10075F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
17 July 1875
Source of text:
EAC Gallery (dealers) (autumn 2014)
Summary:

Thanks for KLR’s latest work (Rütimeyer 1875).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10076

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
18 July 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.472)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s experiments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10076F

From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B22; DAR 94: 1a (cover)
Summary:

Errata slip forInsectivorous plants

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10077F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz
Date:
17 July 1875
Source of text:
Zoologische Staatssammlung München
Summary:

Is obliged to be given a second and improved edition of GKMvS’s excellent lectures.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10078

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 15
Summary:

Sends a note on the ferment of the Nepenthes secretion, which he asks CD to forward to Nature if he thinks it worth while [see "Insectivorous plants", Nature 12 (1875): 251–2].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10080

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
20 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 28
Summary:

CD returns MS of a paper by RLT. "If you have succeeded in separating the ferment, the fact is manifestly important." Asks whether RLT tested the digestive ability of fluid from pitchers without animal matter. This would be necessary to prove that there was ferment in the fluid. CD is glad to hear about the [passage?] for guiding insects; he had guessed this to be the case.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10081

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896: 33
Summary:

Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.

Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10082

From:
Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C8r
Summary:

CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Akademie.

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DCP-LETT-10083

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
Date:
[after 20 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C8v
Summary:

Acknowledges his election to the Akademie.

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DCP-LETT-10084

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 July 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 25–6)
Summary:

Would be obliged for correction of references in Variation [1st ed.].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10085

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: B121–2
Summary:

Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.

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DCP-LETT-10086

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 16
Summary:

Insectivorous plants: observations on the digestive fluid of Nepenthes.

Reproduction of plant by "parthenogenesis".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10087

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
22 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 29
Summary:

CD sends words that he is too busy to work on the Drosera RLT has sent. CD also regrets that the fluid on virgin pitchers of Nepenthes was not tested with white of egg. Until that is done, he doubts whether physiologists would admit the presence of the ferment.

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