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DCP-LETT-10178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[31 Aug 1875 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 13
Summary:

Sends proofs of Variation [2d ed.] for FD to look over.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10179G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas William Newton
Date:
1 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (dealers) (27 May 2021, lot 0090)
Summary:

Sends his compliments and thanks [with payment of £13 to TWN for compiling catalogue of CD’s books].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1017F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[4 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (December 2010)
Summary:

Supposes Sharpe does not want Von Buch’s tract, so sent Hopkins. Asks it be returned to CD at the Athenaeum Club.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 70
Summary:

Observations on barnacles.

Would like to meet JDH in London.

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DCP-LETT-10180

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 29–30)
Summary:

Suggests WTT-D read account of Bignonia capreolata in forthcoming Climbing plants.

Plans experiments [on Melastomataceae]. Describes similar experiment performed on Monochaetum. Interested in meaning of differently coloured stamens.

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DCP-LETT-10181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
3 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 146: 354
Summary:

Comments on review [of Insectivorous plants] in New York Independent.

Working on Cross and self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
6 Oct 1875
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 326–7)
Summary:

Fears Variation [2d ed.] will not be ready for Murray’s annual sale unless printer sends proof more quickly. Arrangements with Italian publishers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
7 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1595)
Summary:

Comments on the sudden death of Chauncey Wright.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
8 Oct 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.477)
Summary:

CD is circulating certificate proposing GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses hybrid potatoes from Germany.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 392–3
Summary:

R. L. Tait has requested CD send his [Tait’s] paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society. CD considers this a nuisance.

Certificate for G. J. Romanes.

Francis’ experiments on mechanism of twisted seeds.

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DCP-LETT-10195

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edouard Bergson
Date:
13 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 143: 111
Summary:

Comments on difficulty of distinguishing between lower animal and vegetable organisms.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10196

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 48
Summary:

Pleased by W. Stanley Jevons’ letter.

Has ordered Dr Cohn’s book.

Is sure that GHD’s energy will lead to success with work on viscous fluids.

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DCP-LETT-10198

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
14 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 135–136)
Summary:

Sends sheets of Climbing plants [2d ed.], which will be published in November. Suggests JVC have someone translate it under his supervision,

since he has not yet finished Insectivorous plants.

Admires the appearance of [German ed. of] Journal of researches.

Discusses other publication prospects.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10199

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
14 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (MS 331 box 1 folder 11)
Summary:

Will be happy to present RLT’s paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-102

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[11 July 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 1 DAR/1/1/1)
Summary:

Has been learning to use a clinometer.

Has investigated passage and fares for Canaries trip.

Rereading Humboldt.

Asks JSH to thank Jenyns for present of Diptera.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1020

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
[c. 26 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
Sir Tom Ramsay (private collection)
Summary:

Discusses CD’s unintended insult to George Grey.

Compliments JLS on his book [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10200

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 394–6
Summary:

Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.

Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.

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DCP-LETT-10201

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Max Müller
Date:
15 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 427
Summary:

Thanks FMM for his essay [see 10194]. Though some of FMM’s remarks are "stinging", they have all been made "gracefully".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10202

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 33–4)
Summary:

Thanks for information. Absorption of ammonium carbonate by glandular hairs.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Summary:

JT’s tube [of boiled infusion] dated 16 Oct was clear on 19th; on the 20th it was muddy and contained many bacteria in living movement.

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