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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
20 October [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[18 Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 118
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
2 October [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.2
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
4 October 1874
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.23
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[October 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1534
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[29 October 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 605
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Oct 1874 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 62.10.1)
Summary:
CD cannot come to London to sit for photograph. Sends one taken by son [Leonard], which family considers the best likeness. CD would be glad to give a sitting at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 421–422
Summary:
Thanks JDH for extract on Hedychium pollination; it shows CD’s prior interpretation was incorrect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 92
Summary:
Notes that Mr[s] Barber’s communication [forwarded by CD] will be published because of more striking than usual facts ["Notes on … larva and pupa of Papilio nireus", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1874): 519–21].
Encloses Thomas Belt’s address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 95–6
Summary:
An account of his observations on Aldrovanda and Utricularia.
Sends CD his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1875) Heft 3: 71–92] in advance of publication [see Insectivorous plants, pp. 321 et seq., 395–6].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
8 Oct 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.451)
Summary:
Thanks JC-B for copy of Medical Reports of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-19)
Summary:
Has been testing the digestive powers of Drosera; wants to know whether a group of substances that elicit similar responses are related.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 341a
Summary:
Asks JDH for leaves of Byblis and Roridula to examine, and D. Oliver for an anomalous species of Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 97–8
Summary:
Sends information CD requested on phosphate of ammonia and on nitrogenous substances produced during putrefaction of animal matter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 146: 353
Summary:
Doubts whether sudden and great variations often occur.
Comments on colours of flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 226–7
Summary:
Oliver will attend to his letter.
Tells of discovery and rediscovery of Aldrovanda.
Asks what CD thinks of "old Pritchard’s discourse" [C. Pritchard, Natural science and natural religion (1874)]. Does not affect evolution at all. It does affect the rather unprofitable doctrine of materialism.
His plans for the Royal Society Presidential Address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
11 Oct 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Acknowledges the information about the phosphate and about putrefaction. Regrets that there is no knowledge of the conjectured substance. [See 9671.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
12 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 99–100
Summary:
Sends specimens of Byblis, Roridula, and Utricularia for CD’s examination.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 101–3
Summary:
Suggests an explanation for difference in excitability of Drosera leaves to meat and albumen on the one hand and, on the other, fibrin, areolar tissue, gelatin, and fibrous basis of bone.
Contributor:
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Author
- Allport, Morton1
- Bates, H. W.1
- Beal, W. J.1
- Bentham, George1
- Brousce?, J. de Mann?1
- Brunton, T. L.1
- Burdon Sanderson, J. S.2
- Carus, J. V.1
- Chapman, Frederic1
- Christie, W. H. M.1
- Cohn, F. J.1
- Darwin, C. R.22
- Darwin, Emma5
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, Leonard2
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Davis, Mary1
- Forel, Auguste1
- Frankland, Edward1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Hooker, J. D.3
- Krefft, Gerard1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von8
- Oliver, Daniel2
- Treat, Mary1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Wedgwood, Emma2
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