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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 421–422
Summary:

Thanks JDH for extract on Hedychium pollination; it shows CD’s prior interpretation was incorrect.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 92
Summary:

Notes that Mr[s] Barber’s communication [forwarded by CD] will be published because of more striking than usual facts ["Notes on … larva and pupa of Papilio nireus", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1874): 519–21].

Encloses Thomas Belt’s address.

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From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 95–6
Summary:

An account of his observations on Aldrovanda and Utricularia.

Sends CD his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1875) Heft 3: 71–92] in advance of publication [see Insectivorous plants, pp. 321 et seq., 395–6].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
8 Oct 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.451)
Summary:

Thanks JC-B for copy of Medical Reports of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-19)
Summary:

Has been testing the digestive powers of Drosera; wants to know whether a group of substances that elicit similar responses are related.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 341a
Summary:

Asks JDH for leaves of Byblis and Roridula to examine, and D. Oliver for an anomalous species of Utricularia.

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From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 97–8
Summary:

Sends information CD requested on phosphate of ammonia and on nitrogenous substances produced during putrefaction of animal matter.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 146: 353
Summary:

Doubts whether sudden and great variations often occur.

Comments on colours of flowers.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 226–7
Summary:

Oliver will attend to his letter.

Tells of discovery and rediscovery of Aldrovanda.

Asks what CD thinks of "old Pritchard’s discourse" [C. Pritchard, Natural science and natural religion (1874)]. Does not affect evolution at all. It does affect the rather unprofitable doctrine of materialism.

His plans for the Royal Society Presidential Address.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
11 Oct 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Acknowledges the information about the phosphate and about putrefaction. Regrets that there is no knowledge of the conjectured substance. [See 9671.]

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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 99–100
Summary:

Sends specimens of Byblis, Roridula, and Utricularia for CD’s examination.

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From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 101–3
Summary:

Suggests an explanation for difference in excitability of Drosera leaves to meat and albumen on the one hand and, on the other, fibrin, areolar tissue, gelatin, and fibrous basis of bone.

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From:
William Henry Mahoney Christie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 147
Summary:

Announces arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at Canterbury, New Zealand.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 185: 107
Summary:

CD responds [to 9667] with description of his own effort to study Aldrovanda and his observations on the structure of Dionaea.

His admiration for FJC’s earlier studies of the Venus’s fly-trap.

He urges FJC to proceed promptly with publication of his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 1, Heft 3 (1875): 71–92].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
13 Oct 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-20)
Summary:

Discusses the powers of digestion of Drosera and why certain substances produce less excitement in the plant than others.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Mahoney Christie
Date:
13 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
CUL-RGO 6/273 (section 3-4: 381)
Summary:

Thanks WHMC and the Astronomer Royal for informing him of the safe arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at New Zealand. [See 9677.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
14 Oct 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.452)
Summary:

Thanks him for specimens.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:
15 Oct 1874
Source of text:
Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:793)
Summary:

Writes about AHF’s book on Swiss ants.

Recounts his own observations on ants carrying cocoons.

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From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 104–5
Summary:

Responds to CD’s questions about relation to gelatin of areolar tissue, fibrous basis of bone, and other substances CD is using in his work on digestion of Drosera.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
18 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Summary:

Thanks WBD for his book, Cave hunting (1874).

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