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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 86–7
Summary:
Observations of effect of pepsin and hydrochloric acid on urea indicate that it is not digested [by Drosera].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 128–9
Summary:
Sends Pinguicula vulgaris leaves with seeds on them, together with his observations on proportion of leaves with insects on them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
7 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Stockholms Auktionsverk (dealers) (15 December 2015)
Summary:
Thanks for the Pinguicula leaves, from which he has picked off sixteen seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 334–335
Summary:
Lady Dorothy Nevill has no Dionaea.
CD anxious to talk with JDH about Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Price
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 90
Summary:
Observations on flotation of Utricularia vulgaris.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 143
Summary:
An anonymous letter praising the Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Verrell
Date:
13 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Gallery of History (dealers) (20 October 1983)
Summary:
Should like to borrow again a volume which he returned in error. Requests The Quarterly Magazine of the High Wycombe Natural History Society for 1867 and 1868 to locate paper on Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 174: 35
Summary:
He has physical peculiarities that support CD’s theories: e.g., ability to dilate nostrils like a rabbit and to spread out the toes of both feet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Simms
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 164
Summary:
Sends copy of one of his books.
Asks for drawing of CD’s right foot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 88–9; DAR 103: 221; Insectivorous plants , p. 5 n.
Summary:
Thiselton-Dyer’s announcement of his inability to continue as JDH’s private secretary is a blow. He will now be doing original work. JDH is glad of that but the loss of his help is great.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Nevill, D. F.10
- Walpole, D. F.10
- Hooker, J. D.9
- Lyell, Charles4
- Bennett, A. W.3
- Brunton, T. L.2
- Forel, Auguste2
- Lubbock, John2
- Marshall, W. C.2
- Verrell, James2
- Wharton, W. J. L.2
- Wright, Chauncey2
- Burdon Sanderson, J. S.1
- Darwin, Francis1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Haines, Abner1
- Howitt, A. W.1
- John Murray1
- Meehan, Thomas1
- Murray, John, Jr1
- Pennypacker, S. W.1
- Price, John1
- Radovanović, Milan1
- Ross, James1
- Simms, Joseph1
- Unidentified1
- Wilkinson, H. M.1
Date
Document type
Repository
- American Philosophical Society4
- Cambridge University Library37
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library, Case Western Reserve University3
- Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität1
- Gallery of History (dealers), Georgetown1
- John Wilson Manuscripts Limited (dealer), Painswick Lawn, 7 Painswick Road1
- Stockholms Auktionsverk (dealers)1
- The British Library1
- The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections1
- Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine1
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