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DCP-LETT-10065

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 39
Summary:

Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10066

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 14
Summary:

Has read Insectivorous plants and is to review it for the Spectator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10067

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 18
Summary:

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10067F

From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B23
Summary:

First proof of errata slip for inclusion in Insectivorous plants 2d thousand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10068

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
15 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 122
Summary:

Sends his autograph

and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].

Would be pleased to see DN at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10069

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Summary:

Thanks RDF for a part of his book [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)]; suggests further observations RDF could make and defends some of his own conclusions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10070

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-22)
Summary:

Thanks for JSBS’s essays; wishes he had said something on Lister’s observations. Speculates on the fungoid nature of smallpox and why there is seldom re-infection.

Discusses digestion by Drosera, the action of its secretion being the same as that of gastric juice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10077

From:
William Kitchen Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 174: 20
Summary:

Sorry he was out when CD called.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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].

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