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From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 116–19
Summary:

Informs CD of the effects of certain salts and other chemicals on animals.

Comments on CD’s results with Drosera. Suggests some experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Charles Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 183
Summary:

Wonders whether CD has any idea how the cuckoo manages to match its eggs to those of its host; believes it possible that the diet of the nestling cuckoo, which varies with its host, may affect its behaviour and the colour of its eggs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
25 June [1873]
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:

Discusses role of insects in crossing varieties of Lathyrus odoratus and other species.

Comments on Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)],

and Anton Kerner ["Die Schutzmittel des Pollens", Ber. Naturwiss. Med. Ver. Innsbruck, 3 (1873): 100–68].

Admires FD’s work on anemophilous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
26 June [1873]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-08)
Summary:

Would welcome JSBS visit to discuss Drosera. Nitrogenous fluids can act as ferments only if they act merely by exciting molecular movement in adjoining molecules.

Glass and cotton excite movement and cause cell contents to change visibly. Huxley coming to see this phenomenon.

Studied effect of poisons 12 or 15 years ago to see whether the action was similar to that on nervous tissue.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 68
Summary:

Is tired of inaction and so is leaving for Egypt and the East.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Duncan Hague
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1873
Source of text:
Nature , 24 July 1873, p. 244
Summary:

Confirms previous observations on ants [see 8788].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 137
Summary:

Sends his paper on fertilisation of the New Zealand species of the orchid Pterostylis [Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 4 (1871): 270–84].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 263–4
Summary:

Thanks for Dionaea.

George Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1873): viii–xxix]. Admires it greatly.

CD’s recent work leads him to a different theory [from GB’s] on the separation of the sexes of plants.

Huxley has been at Down working with CD on Drosera – very helpful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
28 June [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 328
Summary:

Thanks for the extract from the American paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Max Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 284
Summary:

Sends three lectures on the origin of human language [see 8962].

Although a "sincere admirer", he differs with CD on the relation of human to so-called animal language.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 157–8
Summary:

Leaves Wednesday with Huxley for holiday.

Family news.

He too thinks well of Bentham’s address.

Asa Gray elected Foreign F.R.S.

G. J. Allman is being proposed for Royal Medal by JDH and Huxley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
30 June 1873
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
Summary:

Thanks for sending WHF’s lecture, ‘On palaeontological evidence of the modifications of animal forms’ (Flower 1873).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[June–Sept 1873?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (T. H. Huxley papers Mss.B.H981)
Summary:

Printed memorandum giving reasons why there should be subsidy on a large scale of scientific research unencumbered with teaching.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 June 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 8
Summary:

Has discussed with E. E. Klein about the purchase of a Hartnack microscope from Paris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project