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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-22)
Summary:

Thanks for JSBS’s essays; wishes he had said something on Lister’s observations. Speculates on the fungoid nature of smallpox and why there is seldom re-infection.

Discusses digestion by Drosera, the action of its secretion being the same as that of gastric juice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 457
Summary:

The second printing of 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants] has sold out. Will print 750 more [3000 in all]. Mudie’s Library and Simpkin & Co. have ordered more copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Summary:

Thanks RDF for a part of his book [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)]; suggests further observations RDF could make and defends some of his own conclusions.

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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