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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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 10
Summary:

Encloses copy of description of an outgrown stump. Refers to letter [missing] in which CD reports on a case of amputation. Would like to check J. Simpson’s cases before thinking everything is settled.

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

Thanks for answer to racehorse query;

would be grateful for correction of any errors in Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
Date:
16 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.473)
Summary:

The question is whether additional digits possess power of regrowth beyond the ordinary. James Paget has convinced CD that they do not. CD must alter what he has published. [See Variation, 2d. ed., 2: 459.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 36–7
Summary:

JDH reports his battle with Lord Henry Lennox over whether to locate new Herbarium on the Queen’s or public part of Garden.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: A95
Summary:

Accepts offer of stereotype plates from Murray for Climbing plants, and will give same terms.

Has only just made Insectivorous plants ready. Long and favourable review just appeared in Times.

Wants to publish Variation and so will approach Judd & Co. [publishers of first U. S. edition (1868)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
14 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (29 August 2019, lot 37)
Summary:

Can WDF recall the sex of the deaf white cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 17
Summary:

Digestive fluid in insectivorous plants. RLT’s work on tails.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project