From:
Milan Marinković (Milan) Radovanović
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 2
Summary:
Has translated Origin into Serbian and wants CD’s authorisation to publish.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Abner Haines
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 84
Summary:
States his admiration for CD’s views and their progress in the U. S.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 142
Summary:
Sends papers and references.
Reports his microscopic observations on Drosera and other plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 110
Summary:
Sends CD his photo
and a copy of his address at Hartford ["Change by gradual modification not the universal law", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1874) pt 2: 7–12]. Does not believe his observations are unfavourable to natural selection but feels there are other factors involved in the origin of form.
Discusses further his work on colour and sex in plants; the linking of high colour and maleness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 22
Summary:
Will send a different Utricularia species when the seedlings are better established.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 153
Summary:
Sends a copy of his book on Swiss ants [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Notes points and passages that he thinks will interest CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 224–5
Summary:
CD’s Utricularia findings – bladders, subterranean roots, and insects decomposing in them – a grand discovery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1874
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 457
Summary:
Notes recent confirmation of CD’s views on subsidence in [island of] St Jago.
Describes Carboniferous strata discovered on Island of Mull by J. W. Judd. Contained evidence of Miocene sinking of volcanoes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 93–94
Summary:
Information about various species of Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
