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DCP-LETT-10014

From:
Fritz Schultze
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 67
Summary:

Comments on his book [Kant und Darwin: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Entwicklungslehre (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10015

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 9
Summary:

Has separated out a pepsin-like substance from the secretion of Drosera, which he proposes to call "Droserin".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10016

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 10
Summary:

Intends sending a paper containing some of his histological work [see "Freezing process for section-cutting; … staining and mounting sections", J. Anat. & Physiol. 9 (1875): 249–58].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10017

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 26
Summary:

RLT’s observations come too late, as CD’s book on Droseraceae has been printed.

Reports on his observations of ferment in secretions in Drosera rotundifolia and Drosophyllum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Fritz Schultze
Date:
14 June [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.470)
Summary:

Thanks FS for his book [Kant und Darwin].

Sends regards to Haeckel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10019

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
[after 17 June 1875]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

RLT will find abundant evidence of absorption by Aldrovanda in CD’s forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants]. Congratulates him on his discovery of ferments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10020

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 11
Summary:

Is waiting impatiently for the appearance of CD’s book [Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10020A

From:
G. Chiantore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1875
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (CD’s Address Book)
Summary:

Agrees to wait for the new edition of Variation and accepts Mr Murray’s offer of the clichés at £10. [See 9981.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10021

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
17 June [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 143–144)
Summary:

Sends clean sheets of Insectivorous plants. JVC will now be able to judge whether it is worth translating. The book has wearied him and cost much labour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10022

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 12
Summary:

Insectivorous plants: the means and site of absorption of digested animal matter. [Newspaper clipping enclosed.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
17 [July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 27
Summary:

Informs RLT of J. D. Hooker’s work on Nepenthes ["Nepenthaceae, Cytinaceae", in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by A. P. de Candolle (1873), 17: 90–116].

Has asked JDH to try secretions of pitchers that had caught no insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10024

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 386–7
Summary:

Has come to Abinger Hall for a rest after Insectivorous plants, soon to appear. Is sick of the accursed subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10025

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 30–2
Summary:

Thiselton-Dyer’s appointment has come.

Wants to discuss insectivorous plants and get some experiments going.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10026

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 95: 388
Summary:

Rejoices at [Thiselton-Dyer’s] appointment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
23 June 1875
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (SP.917)
Summary:

Gives a report on a paper by Thomas Powell on coral islands ["Notes on the nature and productions of several atolls of the Tokelan, Ellice, and Gilbert Groups, South Pacific", read 15 Apr 1875, not published].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10028

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
24 June [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 338–9)
Summary:

Insectivorous plants ready for publication. Asks price. Suggests advertisements in Nature and Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10029

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 13
Summary:

An article on RLT’s lecture on insectivorous plants has appeared; the author adopts an anti-Darwinian attitude [see "Flower traps", Spectator 19 June 1875, pp. 784–5; RLT’s reply in Spectator 26 June 1875, pp. 816–17.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10030

From:
Joseph Warner Clark
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 154
Summary:

Observations of fear in animals marked by dilation of pupils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10030F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
25 June [1875]
Source of text:
Empire Autograph Auctions (dealers) (1 January 2008)
Summary:

Is staying at a friend’s [T. H. Farrer’s] house for rest until after 6 July, so cannot see CVR at Down.

Hopes he thanked CVR for the last Report [one of CVR’s Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects of the State of Missouri (1868–76)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10031

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 455
Summary:

Sends first copy of Insectivorous plants to CD. Price must be 15s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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