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DCP-LETT-10046

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 23–4)
Summary:

Discusses corrections to Variation.

Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10047

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 78
Summary:

Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10048

From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 9
Summary:

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Intrigued by the analogy between fairy-rings and annular skin diseases, e.g., herpes and psoriasis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10049

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 234
Summary:

Thanks CD for his new volume [Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1005

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[5 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A15–A16
Summary:

The third and last part of the Geology [South America] will be published in a few days. Apologises for not sending JSH the other volumes.

Has attended Southampton [BAAS] meeting.

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DCP-LETT-10050

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 86
Summary:

Yellow and purple flowers occur on plant grafted with Cytisus purpureus, but only on separate racemes. Only yellow blooms seed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10051

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
8 July [1875]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library (Rare Books MSS Acc. 324)
Summary:

Is very interested in JJW’s report on a purple laburnum grafted onto yellow stock which then produces yellow flowers. CD requests racemes to examine.

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DCP-LETT-10052

From:
Thomas Spencer Baynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 100
Summary:

Asks CD to write short article on breeds and breeding for new edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Huxley has suggested natural history topics to be covered, and recommended CD.

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DCP-LETT-10053

From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 113
Summary:

Thanks for copy of CD’s latest work [Insectivorous plants].

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DCP-LETT-10054

From:
Rudolf Ehrenfried (Rudolf) Riemann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 176: 157, 157/1
Summary:

Professional sheep-breeder interested in laws of inheritance reports his crosses between Serinus hortulanus and Dryospiza canaria. Seeks to make a new species. Crosses carried out with animals varying in their proportion of Serinus and Dryospiza parentage. Confirms Prosper Lucas’ law as given in Origin, ch. 9, with exception that strong individuals exhibit prepotency.

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DCP-LETT-10055

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 87
Summary:

Sends CD some of the Cytisus, which has produced yellow flowers on a purple graft.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10055F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
10 July 1875
Source of text:
The National Library of Wales (NLW St Asaph Diocesan Records SA/CR/219)
Summary:

Enquires about fairy rings.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10056

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
10 July 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.466); DAR 148: 336
Summary:

Regarding Cytisus graft with yellow flowers, CD thinks nurseryman has sold Cytisus adami to JJW’s brother in place of C. purpureus. This explains apparent "sport". [P.S. on envelope:] C. purpureus seeds freely. C. adami never does.

Contributor:
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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:
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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.

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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:
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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?

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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:
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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:
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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.]

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