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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Mourns death of Lyell. Wonders whether enough men of science were attached to him to raise a fitting testimonial.
Expresses his feelings following the death of Charles Lyell.
Regarding Cytisus graft with yellow flowers, CD thinks nurseryman has sold Cytisus adami to JJW’s brother in place of C. purpureus. This explains apparent "sport". [P.S. on envelope:] C. purpureus seeds freely. C. adami never does.
Asks permission to republish his climbing plants paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] in a corrected form [Climbing plants].
Has found that H. G. Bronn in the chapter appended to his translation of Origin cited ears and tail of mice as facts opposed to natural selection. Suggests RLT examine hairs of tails of mice for possible nerves.
RLT’s observations come too late, as CD’s book on Droseraceae has been printed.
Reports on his observations of ferment in secretions in Drosera rotundifolia and Drosophyllum.
Informs RLT of J. D. Hooker’s work on Nepenthes ["Nepenthaceae, Cytinaceae", in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by A. P. de Candolle (1873), 17: 90–116].
Has asked JDH to try secretions of pitchers that had caught no insects.
Has come to Abinger Hall for a rest after Insectivorous plants, soon to appear. Is sick of the accursed subject.
Rejoices at [Thiselton-Dyer’s] appointment.
CD’s publisher is sending FJC an early copy of Insectivorous plants, in which he hopes that FJC’s admirable papers are acknowledged with the respect that they deserve.
Discusses case of Cytisus graft described by JJW.
JJW is to think no more about mistake [regarding Cytisus graft].
Sends his autograph
and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would be pleased to see DN at Down.
Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].
CD returns MS of a paper by RLT. "If you have succeeded in separating the ferment, the fact is manifestly important." Asks whether RLT tested the digestive ability of fluid from pitchers without animal matter. This would be necessary to prove that there was ferment in the fluid. CD is glad to hear about the [passage?] for guiding insects; he had guessed this to be the case.
Acknowledges his election to the Akademie.
Glad to hear that ARW is so busy.
CD believes that he has thrown some light on the acquirement of the power of digestion in Droseraceae [in Insectivorous plants].
Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.
Shares Hooker’s feelings about Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox.
Bored with preparing new editions.
Suggests GHD write a supplement to his review [of A. H. Huth’s The marriage of near kin (1875)]. Feels sorry Huth was taken in by the Legrain fraud. [See Autobiography (1958), pp. 143–4.]
