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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Is sorry his correspondent has had so much trouble about his address. Suggests he send the book from R. D. Fitzgerald [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)] either by post or by rail.
Sorry to hear price of 15s [for Insectivorous plants]. Asks that JM consider 14s. Fears small sale at 15s. It is his fault – he never can help making his books too big.
Thinks Insectivorous plants must be translated and published in Germany.
Journal of researches nearly finished.
A new [German] edition of Origin is wanted.
Agrees to price Insectivorous plants at 14s.
Has CD quoted a price for stereotype plates to D. Appleton?
Mentioned to Appleton only that stereotypes [for Insectivorous plants] would be provided for "a little above cost price". Glad the price of the book will be 14s. He likes making money, but cares more for wider distribution of his books. Is uneasy about sale of Insectivorous plants.
Pigmentation of Celebesians’ skin changes from birth onward. Passes through some of Paul Broca’s types.
Thanks WCW for sending his lecture ‘The dawn of animal life’, which seems "a wonderfully clear & interesting sketch of the lower organisms".
CD’s publisher is sending FJC an early copy of Insectivorous plants, in which he hopes that FJC’s admirable papers are acknowledged with the respect that they deserve.
Insectivorous plants to be published in two or three days.
Climbing plants and 2d ed. of Variation will be published early in November.
Has no strength for corrections for the new printing of Origin, though many are desired.
Pleased that JVC will translate Insectivorous plants.
Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Thanks CD for his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would like to visit again before August.
A poem on Insectivorous Plants.
CD’s pessimistic view [of prospective sale of Insectivorous plants] is to blame for the small printing. Murray’s printed only 1250 copies and sold 1700. A thousand more have been ordered.
Very glad about sales [of Insectivorous plants]. CD had hard work to persuade Murray to increase printing to 1250 copies, but owns he thought that number would last for eternity. U. S. publication and French, German, and Russian translations in the offing.
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Has just finished his Geschichte der Botanik [1875].
Compares action of Drosera glands to action of sprouting embryo and to action of roots in absorbing minerals.
Discusses case of Cytisus graft described by JJW.
Yellow flowers occurring on a purple Cytisus grafted onto a yellow stock.
Thanks CD for a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Describes experiment on Drosera carried out with his pupils.
Describes reception of the book at the University of Zurich.
Comments on Nägeli’s concept of a "morphological species".
Expresses belief in importance of natural selection.
Mentions his forthcoming publication ["Ulothrix zonata", Jahrb. f. wiss. Bot. 10 (1876): 417–550].
Discusses corrections to Variation.
Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.
Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].