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DCP-LETT-9610

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 219–20
Summary:

Lady Dorothy Nevill is CD’s best chance for Dionaea.

Reports on Belfast meeting of BAAS. Lubbock’s lecture went off admirably. Huxley’s was the magnum opus.

Encloses letter from Mrs Barber on protective coloration of animals.

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DCP-LETT-9611

From:
Henryk Stecki
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 252
Summary:

Reports observations on a chicken with a human face.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9612

From:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 125–6
Summary:

Sends CD a box of Pinguicula leaves.

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DCP-LETT-9614

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
[after 30 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 126v
Summary:

Glad to hear about sticky fluid on leaves. WCM need not bother to count leaves.

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DCP-LETT-9711

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[20? Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 38
Summary:

Likes GHD’s article ["Professor Whitney on the origin of language", Contemp. Rev. (1874): 894]. "You have defended me nobly."

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DCP-LETT-9605

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-25); DAR 147: 415 (copy)
Summary:

Reports difficulties in experiments on digestion of fibro-cartilage. Asks about JSBS’s experiments with artificial digestive fluids.

JSBS must read Hooker’s address at Belfast [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 103–16] to see what a magnificent digester Nepenthes is.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9606

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 81–2
Summary:

Sends specimens of Pinguicula with insects adhering. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 369.]

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DCP-LETT-9595

From:
Francis Darwin; Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 139–40
Summary:

Describe the Pinguicula species found at Mürren. Have found seeds on some. Their large roots seem to indicate that they do not get much animal food.

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