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
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
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 101
Summary:
Thinks Insectivorous plants must be translated and published in Germany.
Journal of researches nearly finished.
A new [German] edition of Origin is wanted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 458
Summary:
Agrees to price Insectivorous plants at 14s.
Has CD quoted a price for stereotype plates to D. Appleton?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 176: 155
Summary:
Pigmentation of Celebesians’ skin changes from birth onward. Passes through some of Paul Broca’s types.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 33
Summary:
Thanks CD for his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would like to visit again before August.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 July] 1875
Source of text:
Lubbock family (private collection)
Summary:
A poem on Insectivorous Plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 456
Summary:
CD’s pessimistic view [of prospective sale of Insectivorous plants] is to blame for the small printing. Murray’s printed only 1250 copies and sold 1700. A thousand more have been ordered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Sachs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 4
Summary:
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Has just finished his Geschichte der Botanik [1875].
Compares action of Drosera glands to action of sprouting embryo and to action of roots in absorbing minerals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 85
Summary:
Yellow flowers occurring on a purple Cytisus grafted onto a yellow stock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 195
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Describes experiment on Drosera carried out with his pupils.
Describes reception of the book at the University of Zurich.
Comments on Nägeli’s concept of a "morphological species".
Expresses belief in importance of natural selection.
Mentions his forthcoming publication ["Ulothrix zonata", Jahrb. f. wiss. Bot. 10 (1876): 417–550].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 78
Summary:
Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 9
Summary:
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Intrigued by the analogy between fairy-rings and annular skin diseases, e.g., herpes and psoriasis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 234
Summary:
Thanks CD for his new volume [Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 86
Summary:
Yellow and purple flowers occur on plant grafted with Cytisus purpureus, but only on separate racemes. Only yellow blooms seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Spencer Baynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 100
Summary:
Asks CD to write short article on breeds and breeding for new edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Huxley has suggested natural history topics to be covered, and recommended CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 113
Summary:
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest work [Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rudolf Ehrenfried (Rudolf) Riemann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 176: 157, 157/1
Summary:
Professional sheep-breeder interested in laws of inheritance reports his crosses between Serinus hortulanus and Dryospiza canaria. Seeks to make a new species. Crosses carried out with animals varying in their proportion of Serinus and Dryospiza parentage. Confirms Prosper Lucas’ law as given in Origin, ch. 9, with exception that strong individuals exhibit prepotency.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 87
Summary:
Sends CD some of the Cytisus, which has produced yellow flowers on a purple graft.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 79
Summary:
Asks CD’s opinion of an experiment on Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
