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DCP-LETT-10012F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lydia Wendland
Date:
7 June [1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2007)
Summary:

Is very grateful for the gift of a fender-stool. Will send her a copy of Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11549

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
9 June [1875-81]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks questions about earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-75-06-09

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 June 1875
Source of text:
No. 2338, pp. 798-800, unit 39, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10013

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
11 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 24–5
Summary:

Has found that H. G. Bronn in the chapter appended to his translation of Origin cited ears and tail of mice as facts opposed to natural selection. Suggests RLT examine hairs of tails of mice for possible nerves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4050

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
11 June 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/113
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10013F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Zacharias
Date:
[11 June 1875]
Source of text:
Zacharias 1882 , p. 80
Summary:

CD is convinced by the conclusions of Malthus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2323

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 June 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 314-315
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10014

From:
Fritz Schultze
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 67
Summary:

Comments on his book [Kant und Darwin: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Entwicklungslehre (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC381

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
12 June 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.30, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH discusses arrangements for securing Thiselton-Dyer's pay for his new position [as Assistant Director of RBG Kew]. There has been some delay on Lord Henrys'[?] part. JDH is anxious for Thiselton-Dyer to start work & congratulates him on getting the job, which he hopes has also pleased Thiselton-Dyer's family.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10015

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 9
Summary:

Has separated out a pepsin-like substance from the secretion of Drosera, which he proposes to call "Droserin".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10016

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 10
Summary:

Intends sending a paper containing some of his histological work [see "Freezing process for section-cutting; … staining and mounting sections", J. Anat. & Physiol. 9 (1875): 249–58].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-75-06-13b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Jacob Agardh
Date:
13 June 1875
Source of text:
Handskr. Avdl., Universitetsbibliotek, Lund, Sweden
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10017

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 26
Summary:

RLT’s observations come too late, as CD’s book on Droseraceae has been printed.

Reports on his observations of ferment in secretions in Drosera rotundifolia and Drosophyllum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Fritz Schultze
Date:
14 June [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.470)
Summary:

Thanks FS for his book [Kant und Darwin].

Sends regards to Haeckel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10020A

From:
G. Chiantore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1875
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (CD’s Address Book)
Summary:

Agrees to wait for the new edition of Variation and accepts Mr Murray’s offer of the clichés at £10. [See 9981.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10020

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 11
Summary:

Is waiting impatiently for the appearance of CD’s book [Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1732

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
16 June 1875
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10021

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
17 June [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 143–144)
Summary:

Sends clean sheets of Insectivorous plants. JVC will now be able to judge whether it is worth translating. The book has wearied him and cost much labour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10022

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 12
Summary:

Insectivorous plants: the means and site of absorption of digested animal matter. [Newspaper clipping enclosed.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10019

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
[after 17 June 1875]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

RLT will find abundant evidence of absorption by Aldrovanda in CD’s forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants]. Congratulates him on his discovery of ferments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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