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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-10485

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-01)
Summary:

Suggests JSBS’s new machine for observing arterial action be used to test CD’s hypothesis that blushing is caused by thinking intensely about a part of the body and thus releasing the arteries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
26 May [1876]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-11)
Summary:

Caroline [Wedgwood] has been ill for the last 20 months.

James Paget to be consulted about William Darwin’s brain concussion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11358

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-74)
Summary:

CD and Frank Darwin hard at work on physiology of plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11598

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-75)
Summary:

Letter of condolence on reading Times report of death of WDF’s daughter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12050

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
13 May 1879
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-23)
Summary:

CD astonished at receiving the Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12052A

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1879
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-41)
Summary:

Has received CD’s letter [see 12050]. Gives CD the history of the Baly Medal and names previous recipients. It is not necessary for CD to be present for the award, but if he chooses to attend, arrangements could be made for him to arrive just before the presentation. CD will not be required to make an acceptance speech.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
29 Mar 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-12)
Summary:

Grieves with CWF at the approaching death of his father, W. D. Fox. Remembers how they breakfasted together every day at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12572

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
10 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-13)
Summary:

Condolences upon the death of CWF’s father, William Darwin Fox.

[Wrongly dated March by CD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12954

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
29 Dec 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-24)
Summary:

Requests JSBS sign certificate for [Francis Darwin’s] candidacy [for Royal Society].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12958A

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-42)
Summary:

Signs a certificate sent to him by CD [see 12954].

Sends CD a ticket to his lecture on 25 February, in which he will propose that the mode by which the excitable parts of plants influence other parts at a distance is essentially the same as in the excitable structure of animals, contrary to the views of Hermann Munk and Julius Sachs.

Interested in chapters 6 and 7 of Movement in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
8 [June 1856]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-10)
Summary:

The responses to his queries on domestic variations are coming in from all over; believes he will make an interesting collection. At present concerned with rabbits and ducks.

Has told Lyell of his views on species and CL urges CD to publish a preliminary essay. Has begun to work on it, with fear and trembling at its inadequacies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
6 July [1858]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-73)
Summary:

The crisis is abating – no further scarlet fever in the family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-374

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
28 Aug [1837]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-76)
Summary:

Proof-sheets [of Journal of researches] are tumbling in. Mentions future plans for Zoology and geological works. Has £1000 from Government for illustrations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8948

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
24 June 1873
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-10)
Summary:

Wishes JSBS to look over an abstract of his Drosera experiments and to answer some questions on it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8952

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
26 June [1873]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-08)
Summary:

Would welcome JSBS visit to discuss Drosera. Nitrogenous fluids can act as ferments only if they act merely by exciting molecular movement in adjoining molecules.

Glass and cotton excite movement and cause cell contents to change visibly. Huxley coming to see this phenomenon.

Studied effect of poisons 12 or 15 years ago to see whether the action was similar to that on nervous tissue.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
25 July 1873
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-11)
Summary:

Describes his recent work on Drosera digestion of organic materials, e.g., albumen and gelatin. Edward Frankland has given CD a rough test for pepsin. Some plant extracts cause as much inflection as meat. Has found some reversible inflection with heat and perhaps some heat rigor. Has measured the extreme sensitivity of Drosera with very dilute solution of ammonium phosphate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9013

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
15 Aug 1873
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-13)
Summary:

Thinks it would be worth while testing for electrical changes in the leaves of insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9047

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-14)
Summary:

Pleased JSBS has decided to work on Drosera; sends plants. Does not know whether thermo-electric pile could detect temperature change when leaves close.

CD’s experiment with very weak hydrochloric acid repeated with success: the plants digest albumen more quickly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9055

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
13 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-15)
Summary:

Thanks JSBS for telegraphing his results, which seem very remarkable; feels he should now try Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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