From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 12
Summary:
Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Howitt
Date:
[Sept 1874]
Source of text:
M. H. Walker 1971, pp. 221 and 338 n. 25
Summary:
Thanks Howitt for his offer of information from Australia and suggests that Howitt keep detailed notes for a future publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[before 17 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645:107)
Summary:
Sends MS intended some day for the Viola tricolor section of Cross and self-fertilisation [pp. 123–8] to be used by JL in his British wild flowers (1875).
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448)
Summary:
Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.
Describes his holiday in Southampton.
Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
7 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Stockholms Auktionsverk (dealers) (15 December 2015)
Summary:
Thanks for the Pinguicula leaves, from which he has picked off sixteen seeds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 334–335
Summary:
Lady Dorothy Nevill has no Dionaea.
CD anxious to talk with JDH about Utricularia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Verrell
Date:
13 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Gallery of History (dealers) (20 October 1983)
Summary:
Should like to borrow again a volume which he returned in error. Requests The Quarterly Magazine of the High Wycombe Natural History Society for 1867 and 1868 to locate paper on Utricularia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 336–7
Summary:
Describes his observations on Utricularia montana.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 338
Summary:
Asks JDH to cut a bit of root from old Utricularia and bring it with him to Down.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
20 Sept 1874
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/31)
Summary:
Thanks for 5th edition of his book [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte.
CD continues with his experiments on the digestive power of plants, which is much like that of mammals.
Is also preparing a revised edition of Descent.
Would welcome hearing more of his ideas about Pangenesis.
Postscript about Anthropogenie, which has just arrived. EH’s astonishing productivity.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Verrell
Date:
21 Sept 1874
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (August 1979)
Summary:
"Nature published last Thursday has not yet arrived."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
21 Sept 1874 and 29 Jan 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Head movements and their expressive significance. [P.S. explains letter was returned to CD because of a mistake in the address.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
22 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 84
Summary:
Thanks for sending papers by Hermann Hoffmann.
Discusses spiral cells in Drosera and Pinguicula.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.450)
Summary:
Discusses paper on volcanoes by J. W. Judd.
Comments on volcanoes of the S. American Cordillera.
Mentions paper by T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 162
Summary:
Comments on digestive action of pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
Photograph of Rubens’ picture has not arrived.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
26 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 10 (EH 88205935)
Summary:
JL’s two articles in Nature ["Common wild flowers", 10 (1874): 402–6, 422–6].
Cautions against C. K. Sprengel’s notion of bees’ being deceived by nectarless nectary.
Colour of calyces.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
27 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 85
Summary:
Returns copy of Botanische Zeitung.
Responds to comments on Drosera.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:
28 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:792)
Summary:
Thanks AHF for his book on ants of Switzerland;
recommends reading Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 339
Summary:
Queries about species of Utricularia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 340–341
Summary:
The Aldrovanda has arrived. Has examined the leaves. It is an aquatic Dionaea which has acquired some structures identical to those of Utricularia!
Contributor:
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