From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 56–7
Summary:
Sends information on nitrogen and albuminoid content of seeds of Brassica.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 58–9
Summary:
Sends her observations on Dionaea capturing insects. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 311–12.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 225
Summary:
Charles Martins has given the first Darwinian lectures on zoology at Montpellier.
Joseph Duval-Jouve is also a Darwinian. The latter has lost his position as Inspector of the Academy because of his liberal views.
Wallace suggests that a trap-door spider with an exposed nest preys on nocturnal insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Marie Grandclément
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 15 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 88
Summary:
Thanks CD for his answer to his letter. It has not convinced him – he still sees no reason to believe in the prophylactic effect of the vaccine.
Sends an article he has written answering Émile Blanchard of the Academy. Naturalists in France who occupy official positions are not independent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 439
Summary:
In doubt about size of printing of the 2d edition of Descent. Profit on 2000 at 12s would be only £250.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library, DAR. 171.2 (4)/283
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 185
Summary:
AG’s article in Nature was "just and moderate".
Sends his review of C. Hodge’s What is Darwinism? (1874) [Nation 18 (1874): 348–51].
It is uphill work making a theist out of CD.
Gives further observations on Sarracenia variolaris.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 283
Summary:
Wants information from CD for a revision of the supplement of his work on timber trees and other industrial plants [Proc. Zool. & Acclim. Soc. Victoria 3 (1874): 47–95].
Reports the ruin of his department thanks to two papers by Edward Wilson, McKinnon, and Sparrow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 108
Summary:
Sends CD some cobra poison for his experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 166
Summary:
Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Shark embryology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 137; Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154)
Summary:
Sends references on Utricularia and Pinguicula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Williams Keen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 169: 3
Summary:
The lack of a hereditary effect of circumcision among Jews argues against CD’s views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 60–1
Summary:
Sends cartilage from cat’s ear, the elastic fibres of which will probably resist digestion [by Drosera]. Is preparing fibro-cartilage, which he expects will be digested easily. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 104.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 186
Summary:
Writes of his article in Nature. Corrects some errors that have appeared in the published version.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry William Jackson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 47: 203–4
Summary:
Cites instances of invariable correlations of colour he has observed in cats, dogs, and sheep. [See Variation, 2d ed., 2: 316.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Titus Munson Coan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 183
Summary:
Passes on his father’s answer to CD’s query about Hawaiian infanticide.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 198, 198/2
Summary:
Will try to get certain insectivorous plants for CD, especially Utricularia. Is glad to hear he has taken up Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Cooke Copland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 62–3
Summary:
Sends a description of Drosera dichotoma and its manner of fly-catching [see Insectivorous plants, p. 282].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Aitken
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 25 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 150–2
Summary:
Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Ball
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 34
Summary:
Received CD’s note late and so could not comply, but promises to vote in future for anyone CD recommends for Athenaeum.
Will have new evidence on dog’s intelligence sent to CD.
Contributor:
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