From:
William Henry Mahoney Christie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 147
Summary:
Announces arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at Canterbury, New Zealand.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 185: 107
Summary:
CD responds [to 9667] with description of his own effort to study Aldrovanda and his observations on the structure of Dionaea.
His admiration for FJC’s earlier studies of the Venus’s fly-trap.
He urges FJC to proceed promptly with publication of his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 1, Heft 3 (1875): 71–92].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
13 Oct 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-20)
Summary:
Discusses the powers of digestion of Drosera and why certain substances produce less excitement in the plant than others.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Mahoney Christie
Date:
13 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
CUL-RGO 6/273 (section 3-4: 381)
Summary:
Thanks WHMC and the Astronomer Royal for informing him of the safe arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at New Zealand. [See 9677.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
14 Oct 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.452)
Summary:
Thanks him for specimens.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:
15 Oct 1874
Source of text:
Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:793)
Summary:
Writes about AHF’s book on Swiss ants.
Recounts his own observations on ants carrying cocoons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 104–5
Summary:
Responds to CD’s questions about relation to gelatin of areolar tissue, fibrous basis of bone, and other substances CD is using in his work on digestion of Drosera.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
18 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Summary:
Thanks WBD for his book, Cave hunting (1874).
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 41
Summary:
Has been invited to lecture at the Royal Institution by Spottiswoode. Discusses subjects he might deal with and his reasons for attempting it.
Tells of a complicated case of a double sale of a living.
Huxley says F. M. Balfour passed brilliantly.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
18 Oct 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 345–6)
Summary:
Thanks for Quarterly Review [Oct 1874, containing G. H. Darwin’s letter and a rejoinder]. Is convinced the author is Mivart. Is therefore not surprised at malice in the article attacking his son [George Darwin] and grossly misrepresenting CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
19 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:
Returns insectivorous plants to Kew, with questions about their range. Most species seem to have remarkably confined ranges.
Asks for a Bengal Aldrovanda leaf so that he can see whether it differs from the German species.
Roridula interested him extremely.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
19 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 33
Summary:
Advice to GHD on whether to accept invitation to lecture at the Royal Institution.
Murray has sent the Quarterly Review issue. CD has told Murray that he is convinced Mivart is the author and what he thinks of him.
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 106–7
Summary:
Sends information about Indian and Australian species of Aldrovanda, Roridula, and Byblis.
Contributor:
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From:
William James Beal
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C60
Summary:
Sends his observation of honey-bees gleaning after orioles had made holes in calyx of Missouri currant, while humble-bees were getting honey through the tube in the usual way.
Contributor:
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From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 108
Summary:
Observation on the limitations on the power of digestion in Dionaea.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 34
Summary:
Sends index [of Descent, 2d ed.] with instructions for proof-reading.
Asks GHD questions about heat transmission; he wants to use it as an analogy to illustrate transmission of motor impulses through leaves of Dionaea.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 169: 123
Summary:
After a conflict with the Museum’s trustees, he has been brutally evicted from his home and office. Plans to leave Australia and asks CD’s help.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.2: 54; 210.2: 42
Summary:
GHD explains conduction, radiation, and convection.
His paper on political economy for Royal Institution lecture has reached 60 pages. Plans to send it to Contemporary Review.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[24 Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 35
Summary:
Writes about instructions to compositor and return of proofs [of Descent]. Requests return of 2d volume of Descent, to which he may want to refer.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
25 [Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 36
Summary:
Thanks GHD for clear lecture on heat.
Will keep paper on proportion of sexes, in case GHD wants it again.
Wants him to translate some pages of Swedish or Norwegian sent by A. W. Malm, "a good man".
Glad to see the statistical paper ["Theory of exchange value", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 17 (1875): 243–53].
Contributor:
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Author
Date
Document type
Repository
- American Philosophical Society2
- Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Buxton1
- Cambridge University Library34
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library, Case Western Reserve University2
- Harvard University, Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library1
- John Hay Library, Brown University1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland1
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney1
- Natural History Museum and Archives1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond8
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz1
- The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester1
- University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections2
- Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine1
- FEWER