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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 271
Summary:

Glad to hear that ARW is so busy.

CD believes that he has thrown some light on the acquirement of the power of digestion in Droseraceae [in Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10089

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 95, 96
Summary:

Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10090

From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 42
Summary:

Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.

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DCP-LETT-10091

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 95: 389
Summary:

Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10092

From:
Ludwik Masłowski
To:
John Murray
Date:
25 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 90
Summary:

Has received a confusing set of engravings, with both missing and superfluous illustrations [for Polish translation of Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10093

From:
Alice Margaret Stanley; Alice Margaret Lane Fox; Alice Margaret Pitt-Rivers
To:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Date:
25 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 170
Summary:

Recounts the removal and regrowth of her son’s extra digit; her grandfather showed the same condition.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10094

From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 213
Summary:

No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10095

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 33–4
Summary:

His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10097

From:
Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 27 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 240/1
Summary:

Gives extracts from her father’s diary concerning the amputation and regrowth of her sister’s extra finger.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
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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:
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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.

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