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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 95: 388
Summary:

Rejoices at [Thiselton-Dyer’s] appointment.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
23 June 1875
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (SP.917)
Summary:

Gives a report on a paper by Thomas Powell on coral islands ["Notes on the nature and productions of several atolls of the Tokelan, Ellice, and Gilbert Groups, South Pacific", read 15 Apr 1875, not published].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
24 June [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 338–9)
Summary:

Insectivorous plants ready for publication. Asks price. Suggests advertisements in Nature and Gardeners’ Chronicle.

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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 13
Summary:

An article on RLT’s lecture on insectivorous plants has appeared; the author adopts an anti-Darwinian attitude [see "Flower traps", Spectator 19 June 1875, pp. 784–5; RLT’s reply in Spectator 26 June 1875, pp. 816–17.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 65
Summary:

Hopes to start looking over his species notes in about a year.

Very much enjoyed Southampton [meeting of BAAS, 9–12 Sept].

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From:
Joseph Warner Clark
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 154
Summary:

Observations of fear in animals marked by dilation of pupils.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
25 June [1875]
Source of text:
Empire Autograph Auctions (dealers) (1 January 2008)
Summary:

Is staying at a friend’s [T. H. Farrer’s] house for rest until after 6 July, so cannot see CVR at Down.

Hopes he thanked CVR for the last Report [one of CVR’s Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects of the State of Missouri (1868–76)].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mr Russell
Date:
26 June [1875]
Source of text:
Nate’s Autographs (dealer) (January 1995)
Summary:

Is sorry his correspondent has had so much trouble about his address. Suggests he send the book from R. D. Fitzgerald [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)] either by post or by rail.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
27 June [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 336–7)
Summary:

Sorry to hear price of 15s [for Insectivorous plants]. Asks that JM consider 14s. Fears small sale at 15s. It is his fault – he never can help making his books too big.

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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 101
Summary:

Thinks Insectivorous plants must be translated and published in Germany.

Journal of researches nearly finished.

A new [German] edition of Origin is wanted.

Contributor:
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From:
Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 176: 155
Summary:

Pigmentation of Celebesians’ skin changes from birth onward. Passes through some of Paul Broca’s types.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
30 June [1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 March 1973)
Summary:

Thanks WCW for sending his lecture ‘The dawn of animal life’, which seems "a wonderfully clear & interesting sketch of the lower organisms".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
[30 June 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 98
Summary:

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.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
1 July [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 145–146)
Summary:

Insectivorous plants to be published in two or three days.

Climbing plants and 2d ed. of Variation will be published early in November.

Has no strength for corrections for the new printing of Origin, though many are desired.

Pleased that JVC will translate Insectivorous plants.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[July 1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Summary:

Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[3 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.50)
Summary:

Discusses A. C. Ramsay’s article ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846)]. Mentions his own paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Emphasises that sedimentary deposits are not ordinarily preserved.

Contributor:
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From:
Julius Sachs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 4
Summary:

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Has just finished his Geschichte der Botanik [1875].

Compares action of Drosera glands to action of sprouting embryo and to action of roots in absorbing minerals.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 334
Summary:

Discusses case of Cytisus graft described by JJW.

Contributor:
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From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 85
Summary:

Yellow flowers occurring on a purple Cytisus grafted onto a yellow stock.

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From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 195
Summary:

Thanks CD for a copy of Insectivorous plants.

Describes experiment on Drosera carried out with his pupils.

Describes reception of the book at the University of Zurich.

Comments on Nägeli’s concept of a "morphological species".

Expresses belief in importance of natural selection.

Mentions his forthcoming publication ["Ulothrix zonata", Jahrb. f. wiss. Bot. 10 (1876): 417–550].

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