From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 142
Summary:
Sends papers and references.
Reports his microscopic observations on Drosera and other plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 110
Summary:
Sends CD his photo
and a copy of his address at Hartford ["Change by gradual modification not the universal law", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1874) pt 2: 7–12]. Does not believe his observations are unfavourable to natural selection but feels there are other factors involved in the origin of form.
Discusses further his work on colour and sex in plants; the linking of high colour and maleness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 224–5
Summary:
CD’s Utricularia findings – bladders, subterranean roots, and insects decomposing in them – a grand discovery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 153
Summary:
Sends a copy of his book on Swiss ants [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Notes points and passages that he thinks will interest CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 339
Summary:
Queries about species of Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 93–94
Summary:
Information about various species of Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 24
Summary:
Hooker has told her of CD’s work on insectivorous plants. Offers plants, but her Dionaea plants are too small now.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 20
Summary:
Offers Utricularia montana and gives instructions for growing Drosera.
Wishes to visit CD at Down when she comes to London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 19
Summary:
Has sent the Utricularia with the bladders that CD described.
In Variation CD does not mention a rare breed of Siamese cat, which she owns.
Asks for another photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray, Jr; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 440
Summary:
Sends CD a statement of number of thousands of copies printed thus far [by Murray’s] of: Journal of researches (12), Origin (13), Descent (10), and Expression (9).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 21
Summary:
CD should remove packing moss, and he will find bladders in foot-stalks of Utricularia DN sent.
Experimenting on insectivorous plants.
Implores CD to visit.
Thanks for photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 22
Summary:
Will send a different Utricularia species when the seedlings are better established.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.9
- Nevill, D. F.5
- Walpole, D. F.5
- Bennett, A. W.3
- Brunton, T. L.2
- Wharton, W. J. L.2
- Burdon Sanderson, J. S.1
- Darwin, Francis1
- Forel, Auguste1
- Haines, Abner1
- John Murray1
- Lubbock, John1
- Marshall, W. C.1
- Meehan, Thomas1
- Murray, John, Jr1
- Pennypacker, S. W.1
- Price, John1
- Radovanović, Milan1
- Ross, James1
- Simms, Joseph1
- Unidentified1
- Wilkinson, H. M.1
- Wright, Chauncey1