From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 109
Summary:
Action of cobra poison.
Contributor:
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 67–8
Summary:
Identifies seeds adhering to leaves of Pinguicula [see Insectivorous plants, p. 369].
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From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 144–5, 153–4
Summary:
Is delighted to hear that Pinguicula and Drosera digest fibrin. Suggests diluting gluten in weak hydrochloric acid to remove starch. Enamel was nearly digested [by Drosera] overnight. Would like to try separating the digestive ferment of Pinguicula.
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From:
Eliza Meteyard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 164
Summary:
Her memorial has passed and her civil list pension has been increased to £100 per annum for life.
Dr Johnson of Shrewsbury has R. W. Darwin letters.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 69–72
Summary:
Reports on results of experiments on effect of cobra poison on animal cilia and muscle.
Contributor:
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From:
John Price
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 July 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 143
Summary:
Has some Utricularia minor for CD. Has found the bladders on U. vulgaris are not floats.
Thanks CD for book [Descent, 2d ed.].
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 200–1
Summary:
Has "given the slip" to Nepenthes, but is setting a plant up in an enclosure for special observation.
Has some splendid Sarracenia and will perform any miracle regarding them CD puts him up to.
Charmed with CD’s account of Pinguicula. Would like to try whether Lychnis has the same use of viscid fluid.
Has written for English Utricularia for CD.
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From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 July 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 138v
Summary:
Sends further details on Pinguicula reference.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 202–3
Summary:
Sends results of his observations on Nepenthes. Would be grateful for any hints for further observations.
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From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 110
Summary:
Will do experiments CD suggests.
Is sending his book on the poisonous snakes of India [The Thanatophidia of India (1872)].
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 96
Summary:
Thanks for proofs [of Descent, 2d English ed.].
Publisher would like better photographs for Expression [2d German ed.].
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 204–5
Summary:
The appetite of Nepenthes for hard-boiled egg is prodigious.
Contributor:
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From:
Evan Buchanan Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 96
Summary:
Sends quotation from R. C. Virchow which contravenes CD’s statement in Expression that there is no voluntary control of the iris.
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From:
John Ralfs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 73–4
Summary:
Sends specimens of Pinguicula and observations made on them. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 390–1.]
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From:
David Moir; David Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 75–6
Summary:
Sends an Utricularia and a Drosophyllum.
Observations on Pinguicula grandiflora. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 390.]
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Emanuel Klein
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 77–8
Summary:
Reports results [partly excised] of examination of fibro-cartilage subjected to artificial gastric juice and to Drosera secretion. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 104–5.]
Contributor:
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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 52: D1–2, 10–14
Summary:
Sets out some of his ideas on the effects of disuse on an organ. Disuse as a cause of reduction.
Contributor:
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From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 79–80
Summary:
On hearing of CD’s work with Drosera, tells of his experiment showing extreme sensitivity of the iris of a dog’s eye to atropine. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 173.]
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 206–7
Summary:
Asks what can be the meaning of appendages to tips of leaflets of enclosed Acacia or Mimosa.
Is at fibrin today.
Michael Foster suggests coagulation of protoplasm may be diseased, not digestive, symptom.
F. M. Balfour is at Kew today.
Contributor:
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From:
Theodosia Louisa Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 123–4, 127
Summary:
She and her father have been counting insect remains on Pinguicula hairs.
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