From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 29
Summary:
Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel William Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 40
Summary:
Information for CD’s use in investigating digestion by Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wuttke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 181: 189
Summary:
Sends tracing of ancient Egyptian illustration of dogs and cattle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 28
Summary:
Sends CD a draft of a letter to Nature [see 9087], which he thinks expresses CD’s meaning.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel William Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 41–2
Summary:
Sends formula for pure pepsin for experiments on digestion of Drosera, and information on legumin. Will send chlorophyll soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 30
Summary:
Has decided to send the letter ["Variation of organs", Nature 8 (1873): 505].
Writes of his poor health and problems of settling in at Trinity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 169–70
Summary:
Mimosa prostrata, described by John Lindley as M. marginata, native of Brazil.
Who supplies CD with distilled water and chemicals?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel William Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 43
Summary:
Thanks CD for copies of his books.
Sends chlorophyll extract [for CD’s work on Drosera digestion].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 61
Summary:
On CD’s paper ["Complemental males of certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].
Comments on paper by W. H. Dallinger and J. J. Drysdale ["Life history of a Cercomonad", Mon. Microsc. J. 10 (1873): 53–8].
Discusses origin of life, the Gastraea theory and concept that primary germ layers are homologous in all animals. Notes similar views of E. Ray Lankester ["On the primitive cell-layers of the embryo", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 11 (1873): 321–38].
Reception of Darwinism in Germany.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 44–6
Summary:
The results of EF’s tests for acids in the secretion of Drosera are largely negative [see Insectivorous plants, p. 88].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 9
Summary:
Has got a cold, so will not go to Kew. Wrote to Hartnack about price of microscopes and describes own model. Told Hooker about Tisley Spiller’s microscope in Paris.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 16 Oct 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 62
Summary:
Sends table showing relative force of impact of weight dropped on a plane inclined at different angles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 65
Summary:
On bodies of varying elasticity bouncing off inclined planes [see 9096].
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 209
Summary:
Sends some litmus paper for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Virginius Dabney
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 1
Summary:
Feeding habits of the tobacco worm; it eats only five plants, all very different, but of same botanical family.
Contributor:
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From:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 163: 12
Summary:
Sends an essay ["Mikrogeologische Studien über das kleinste Leben der Meeres-Tiefgründe aller Zonen und dessen geologischen Einfluss", Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1873): 131-98.]
with expressions of admiration. CGE is confident their differences will not estrange them.
Remembers with gratitude the [Atlantic] dust that CD made available to him in 1844 [see 747].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 171–2
Summary:
Describes work on Nepenthes – more difficult than Drosera.
Has written to Dublin for a Drosophyllum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 20 Oct 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 60.2: 58
Summary:
Composition of the residue left on evaporation of the fluid in Nepenthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Swift Wade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 181: 2
Summary:
Further details on inheritance of an eyelid abnormality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 175
Summary:
Describes his experiments on Nepenthes; finds action analogous to that in Drosera.
Contributor:
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