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DCP-LETT-10057

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
10 July [1875]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks MTM for his excellent review [of Insectivorous plants]

and for his trouble about the gooseberry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10058

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
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DCP-LETT-10059

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
12 July [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.471)
Summary:

Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.

Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.

Alludes to Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1006

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 66
Summary:

Sulivans are coming on Friday. Can JDH come?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10060

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
12 July 1875
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/24)
Summary:

Describes difficulty of conditions for the experiment with Drosera suggested by THF.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10061

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

DCP-LETT-10061A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mr Russell
Date:
12 July 1875
Source of text:
James Lowe Autographs (dealer) (Cat. 42)
Summary:

Acknowledges with thanks "Mr Fitzgerald’s magnificent work" [R. D. Fitzgerald’s Australian orchids, part 1 (1875)]. [See 10069.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10062

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:
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DCP-LETT-10063

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

DCP-LETT-10064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
14 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 337
Summary:

JJW is to think no more about mistake [regarding Cytisus graft].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10065

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 39
Summary:

Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10066

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

DCP-LETT-10067

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

DCP-LETT-10067F

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

DCP-LETT-10068

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
15 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 122
Summary:

Sends his autograph

and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].

Would be pleased to see DN at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10069

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Summary:

Thanks RDF for a part of his book [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)]; suggests further observations RDF could make and defends some of his own conclusions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1007

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 67
Summary:

Can JDH bring a good book on Corallina or Nullipora of Lamarck?

CD intends writing paper on their propagation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10070

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-22)
Summary:

Thanks for JSBS’s essays; wishes he had said something on Lister’s observations. Speculates on the fungoid nature of smallpox and why there is seldom re-infection.

Discusses digestion by Drosera, the action of its secretion being the same as that of gastric juice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10070F

From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 July 1875]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 17 July 1875, p. 78
Summary:

Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10071

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
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