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FL-0232

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[27? September 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 7
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0753

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[5 September 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 114
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0754

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
9 and 11 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 115
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0756

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
16 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 117
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1032

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
15 September [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1127

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[autumn 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 53
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-1281

From:
Wedgwood, Hensleigh
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
1 September [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2359
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-1534

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
30 September [1874?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1293
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9205

From:
William James Lloyd Wharton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Sept 1874 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A67–70
Summary:

Describes the coral formations of the island of Rodriguez [Indian Ocean].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9218

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 12
Summary:

Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.

Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9615

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 222–3
Summary:

Forwards a letter reporting on a blow-fly trapped by a leaf of Dionaea; decomposition of fly has also decomposed the leaf. JDH has written asking for a strong plant, and explaining the case [of surfeit].

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DCP-LETT-9617

From:
James Ross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 217
Summary:

Sends his book [On protoplasm (1874)], which defends CD’s theory.

Suggests why the lips are closed and the teeth clenched in the expression of determination: it originated as a means of protecting jaw-bone and teeth against a strong blow.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9617F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Howitt
Date:
[Sept 1874]
Source of text:
M. H. Walker 1971, pp. 221 and 338 n. 25
Summary:

Thanks Howitt for his offer of information from Australia and suggests that Howitt keep detailed notes for a future publication.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9618

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[before 17 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645:107)
Summary:

Sends MS intended some day for the Viola tricolor section of Cross and self-fertilisation [pp. 123–8] to be used by JL in his British wild flowers (1875).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9619

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1874
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 , 2: 445-6; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:

Comments on Tyndall’s [Presidential] Address at Belfast meeting [of BAAS] and praise of CD’s work there. Mentions criticism of Belfast clergy.

CL saw some crustacean footprints while in Ireland.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9620

From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 24
Summary:

Hooker has told her of CD’s work on insectivorous plants. Offers plants, but her Dionaea plants are too small now.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9621

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448)
Summary:

Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.

Describes his holiday in Southampton.

Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9623

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 146
Summary:

Will prepare experiments with the fatty acids on digestion of gluten. Has found it is digested slowly, but entirely, with pepsin and hydrochloric acid.

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DCP-LETT-9624

From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 181: 172, 173 f. 6
Summary:

Writes at length on the origins and meanings of particular head movements as used to express assent or disagreement, especially the sideways movements of the head as an expression of consideration or contemplation.

Also discusses space and colour perception.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9624F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
3 Sept 1874
Source of text:
Nevill 1910, pp. 107–8
Summary:

Thanks DFN for her letter [see 9620].

Has nearly finished work on Dionaea.

Asks her to send a specimen of Drosera dichotoma.

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