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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.
Encloses S. C. Malan’s letter which WRSR need not return. The letter in Georgian is so foolish he will not reply.
Encloses a correction [for Climbing plants, 2d ed.]. Asa Gray made a mistake in name of species of Passiflora.
Müller has sent Chips [from a German workshop (1867–75)] and a boring defence against WDW’s attack. GHD feels he is maligned for using the weight of CD’s name in his Contemporary Review article. CD says Müller has misinterpreted a letter from CD as supporting him in his controversy with WDW.
Sends list of misprints in first edition of Insectivorous plants for the German collected works.
CD is curious about the feathers but will wait to see whether H. C. Sorby’s paper appears.
Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.
Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].
Thanks for 5th volume of the West Riding Asylum Medical Reports.
Thanks JS for Sensation and intuition [1874]. Regrets that it was not published earlier, so he could have profited by some of the discussions.
Thanks for FdeC’s work [Lectures on state medicine (1875)].
E. R. Lankester has been unfairly blackballed at the Linnean Society. He is to be proposed for a second time, with CD seconding the proposal. Urges ARW to attend the ballot.
Thanks for errata in Insectivorous plants.
Sends spare copies of his papers, but thinks several are not worth publishing.
Has only one copy, which he will lend JVC, of the best one, on "Erratic boulders of South America" [Collected papers 1: 145–63].
Has not sent "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137], as he is sure he was wrong.
"Sambaquis", or shell mounds accumulated by former inhabitants of the coast, contain shells of some animals that FM has never seen living.
Ants that live on imbauba trees (Cecropia) are attracted by small bodies at base of each petiole.
Sends books.
Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.
Encloses list of errata in Insectivorous plants [1875] for the French translator.
He is proposing [John Wesley] Judd for FRS and asks for CD’s support.
Sends his paper on an American pitcher-plant [Darlingtonia californica].
AG’s notices of Insectivorous plants [Nation 22 (1876): 12–14, 30–2]
and Climbing plants [2d ed., Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 11 (1876): 69–74].
Use of flower peduncles for support in Maurandia. Transition from branches to tendrils.
Is glad ARW will attend to vote for Lankester [at the Linnean Society].
BJS has just moved.
Gives the information he has of their old shipmates.
Tells of his brother’s misfortunes.