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
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 94
Summary:
WTT-D and E. R. Lankester wish to visit CD.
Has corrected some references for new edition of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 175
Summary:
Fairy-rings grow because the fungal spawn radiates outwards then dies off at the centre as it becomes exhausted. The verdure of the grass depends upon the decay of the fungus supplying nitrogenous manure. Rings are formed mainly in upland pastures poor in nitrogenous matter. Gives examples of woodland fungi that form rings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 [July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 29
Summary:
Thanks CD again for his book [Insectivorous plants];
would like an autograph to put in it.
Would be delighted if ever she could visit Down again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 14
Summary:
Has read Insectivorous plants and is to review it for the Spectator.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 18
Summary:
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B23
Summary:
First proof of errata slip for inclusion in Insectivorous plants 2d thousand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 457
Summary:
The second printing of 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants] has sold out. Will print 750 more [3000 in all]. Mudie’s Library and Simpkin & Co. have ordered more copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Papé
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 27
Summary:
Wants to study hereditary mental characters to see whether they are limited by sex – an idea CD holds provisionally and which she doubts. She sends a questionnaire form that she asks CD to criticise. Has read Francis Galton [Hereditary genius (1869)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Kitchen Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 174: 20
Summary:
Sorry he was out when CD called.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 27 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 240/1
Summary:
Gives extracts from her father’s diary concerning the amputation and regrowth of her sister’s extra finger.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- American Philosophical Society5
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond5
- Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira1
- Geological Society of London1
- Huntington Library1
- Royal Society1
- Russian Academy of Sciences1
- University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections1