From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 18
Summary:
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B23
Summary:
First proof of errata slip for inclusion in Insectivorous plants 2d thousand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Papé
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 27
Summary:
Wants to study hereditary mental characters to see whether they are limited by sex – an idea CD holds provisionally and which she doubts. She sends a questionnaire form that she asks CD to criticise. Has read Francis Galton [Hereditary genius (1869)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 200
Summary:
Thanks CD for Insectivorous plants.
Is coming to London and hopes to visit Down.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
17 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 86
Summary:
Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 15
Summary:
Sends a note on the ferment of the Nepenthes secretion, which he asks CD to forward to Nature if he thinks it worth while [see "Insectivorous plants", Nature 12 (1875): 251–2].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
20 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 28
Summary:
CD returns MS of a paper by RLT. "If you have succeeded in separating the ferment, the fact is manifestly important." Asks whether RLT tested the digestive ability of fluid from pitchers without animal matter. This would be necessary to prove that there was ferment in the fluid. CD is glad to hear about the [passage?] for guiding insects; he had guessed this to be the case.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C8r
Summary:
CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Akademie.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
Date:
[after 20 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C8v
Summary:
Acknowledges his election to the Akademie.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: B121–2
Summary:
Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 16
Summary:
Insectivorous plants: observations on the digestive fluid of Nepenthes.
Reproduction of plant by "parthenogenesis".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 271
Summary:
Glad to hear that ARW is so busy.
CD believes that he has thrown some light on the acquirement of the power of digestion in Droseraceae [in Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 95, 96
Summary:
Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 42
Summary:
Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 95: 389
Summary:
Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 213
Summary:
No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 33–4
Summary:
His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 188
Summary:
Has received but not yet read Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 217
Summary:
Regrets he is too busy to accept CD’s invitation to visit Down, but could only thank him again for saving the Zoological Station from shipwreck.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 36
Summary:
Italian translation of Variation will at last be published; will await second [English] edition to incorporate corrections.
Asks permission to translate Expression.
The second [Italian] edition of Origin is now in press.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Weir, J. J.6
- Tait, Lawson5
- Cooke, R. F.4
- Hooker, J. D.4
- John Murray4
- Nevill, D. F.3
- Walpole, D. F.3
- Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften2
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.2
- Wallace, A. R.2
- William Clowes & Sons2
- Baynes, T. S.1
- Bennett, A. W.1
- Berkeley, M. J.1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Canestrini, Giovanni1
- Chambers, Annie1
- Dodel-Port, Arnold1
- Dohrn, Anton1
- Dowie, Annie1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Fayrer, Joseph1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Gilbert, J. H.1
- Gray, Asa1
- Hildebrand, Friedrich1
- Lubbock, John1
- Paget, James1
- Papé, Charlotte1
- Riemann, Rudolf1
- Sachs, Julius1
- Spencer, Herbert1