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DCP-LETT-10073

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 200
Summary:

Thanks CD for Insectivorous plants.

Is coming to London and hopes to visit Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10076F

From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B22; DAR 94: 1a (cover)
Summary:

Errata slip forInsectivorous plants

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10078

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 15
Summary:

Sends a note on the ferment of the Nepenthes secretion, which he asks CD to forward to Nature if he thinks it worth while [see "Insectivorous plants", Nature 12 (1875): 251–2].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10081

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896: 33
Summary:

Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.

Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10082

From:
Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C8r
Summary:

CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Akademie.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10085

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: B121–2
Summary:

Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.

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DCP-LETT-10086

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

Insectivorous plants: observations on the digestive fluid of Nepenthes.

Reproduction of plant by "parthenogenesis".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10089

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 95, 96
Summary:

Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10090

From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 42
Summary:

Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.

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DCP-LETT-10094

From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 213
Summary:

No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10095

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 33–4
Summary:

His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.

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DCP-LETT-10099

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 188
Summary:

Has received but not yet read Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10101

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 217
Summary:

Regrets he is too busy to accept CD’s invitation to visit Down, but could only thank him again for saving the Zoological Station from shipwreck.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10102

From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 36
Summary:

Italian translation of Variation will at last be published; will await second [English] edition to incorporate corrections.

Asks permission to translate Expression.

The second [Italian] edition of Origin is now in press.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10103

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 1d
Summary:

JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10104

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 35
Summary:

Will be delayed on Saturday because of unveiling of a monument to Sir J. Franklin at Westminster Abbey.

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DCP-LETT-10110

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 304
Summary:

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Believes Lepidoptera are of greater importance as fertilisers in alpine regions than in lowlands.

The famous stone pits of Ohningen are for sale.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10117

From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 10
Summary:

Encloses copy of description of an outgrown stump. Refers to letter [missing] in which CD reports on a case of amputation. Would like to check J. Simpson’s cases before thinking everything is settled.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10120

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 36–7
Summary:

JDH reports his battle with Lord Henry Lennox over whether to locate new Herbarium on the Queen’s or public part of Garden.

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DCP-LETT-10121

From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: A95
Summary:

Accepts offer of stereotype plates from Murray for Climbing plants, and will give same terms.

Has only just made Insectivorous plants ready. Long and favourable review just appeared in Times.

Wants to publish Variation and so will approach Judd & Co. [publishers of first U. S. edition (1868)].

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