From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[12 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 318
Summary:
Thanks for information about the weight of water.
Describes experiments on Drosera.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
2 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 316
Summary:
Thanks for pamphlet by A. S. Taylor.
"… we have had a terrible week with my poor girl [Henrietta] on the point of death".
Discusses experiments involving placing solutions of ammonia and other substances on leaves of plants.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
2 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 317
Summary:
Discusses pamphlet by A. S. Taylor
and note by A. W. v. Hofmann concerning iodine solution.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
3 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 24 (EH 88206008)
Summary:
DO’s candidacy for Professorship of Botany [at University College, London].
Henrietta’s health is better.
Paper in Botanische Zeitung [T. Nitschke, "Über die Reizbarkeit der Blätter von Drosera rotundifolia", 18: 229–34, 237–45, 245–50] missed leading point that plants close longer over animal substances. Carbonate of ammonia works on Lemna and Euphorbia roots.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
7 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 25 (EH 88206009)
Summary:
Congratulations on Professorship.
Homologies between Drosera and Dionaea. Carbonate of ammonia on roots. Wants W. H. Fitch to make drawings of Dionaea. Will copy minute structure of hairs from Trécul [see 2965].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[9 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 59
Summary:
Discusses Henrietta’s illness and their plans to return to Down.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
10 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A83–4
Summary:
The stone hatchets are a great muddle. Would like a copy of Jacques Boucher [de Crèvecoeur] de Perthes’s book [Antiquités Celtiques et antédiluviennes (1847–64)].
Is studying action of carbonate of ammonia on Drosera. Asks if this has been done.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
16 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 26 (EH 88206010)
Summary:
One thirty-thousandth of a grain of human hair inflects a single Drosera hair. Astonished by his results so he is not publishing until next summer. [Not published until 1875, Insectivorous plants. See ch. 2 for observations on inflection.]
Wants to study effects of acids on live Dionaea. Oliver should do their anatomy. Corresponding with chemical physiologists about carbonate of ammonia on roots.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[21 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 27 (EH)
Summary:
The plant CD’s father called "flycatcher" was not Asclepias.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[18 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 39 (EH 88206483)
Summary:
Drawing up paper on Drosera but will not publish till results are tested.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 75
Summary:
Welcomes JDH home from Middle Eastern expedition.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 76
Summary:
Preparing new edition of Origin and asks for JDH’s corrections and criticisms.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
28 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40b (EH 88206449)
Summary:
Praise for a paper on the Entomostraca by Lubbock (Lubbock 1862). Thanks for the compliment paid to the Origin and for his general comments.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Medows Rodwell
Date:
5 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 328; Bradford Museums and Galleries: Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley (NH.6.40 p. 641)
Summary:
Comments on relationship between eye-colour and deafness in cats [discussed in Origin]. Asks for more information.
Mentions criticism of Origin.
Thanks for information about horses.
Hopes JMR writes his book on language. Mentions Hensleigh Wedgwood’s work [A dictionary of English etymology, 3 vols. (1859–65)].
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