From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 1 July 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 138
Summary:
Sends reference on Pinguicula [for CD].
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 322–3
Summary:
Thinks Frank and he have worked out Pinguicula well and they long to attack Utricularia. Tried several plants with sticky glandular hairs; some few absorb ammonia, but the greater number do not. If JDH sends plant or seed of Lychnis CD will examine it to see whether it catches many flies. Asa Gray has written him much about Sarracenia, with a specimen showing the splendid dodge by which ground insects are enticed up and then drowned. Describes how it may be investigated, to see whether it absorbs decayed matter from flies, or ammonia thus generated.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
2 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 245: 301
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:
4 July [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 104
Summary:
Suggests experiment involving cobra poison on white corpuscles. Thanks for offer of Crotalus poison.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 324–5
Summary:
It would be interesting to prove that some plants feed on decayed animal matter whilst others like Drosera can digest fresh animal matter. Suggests the method for observing this.
Contributor:
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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:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 59.1: 71
Summary:
Information about insects on Pinguicula leaves.
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.].
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
7 July [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.19
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
7 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 417
Summary:
Asks about the effect of atropine on the eye. Is interested in parallel case: influence of phosphate of ammonia on glands of Drosera.
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.
Contributor:
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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:
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:
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.]
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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