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DCP-LETT-9639

From:
John Murray, Jr; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 440
Summary:

Sends CD a statement of number of thousands of copies printed thus far [by Murray’s] of: Journal of researches (12), Origin (13), Descent (10), and Expression (9).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9641

From:
William James Lloyd Wharton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A63–6
Summary:

Describes the coral formations of Zanzibar and east coast of Africa.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9640

From:
Henry Marlow Wilkinson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 91–2
Summary:

Utricularia has broken into pieces and appears to be decaying.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9205

From:
William James Lloyd Wharton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Sept 1874 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A67–70
Summary:

Describes the coral formations of the island of Rodriguez [Indian Ocean].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0756

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
16 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 117
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9642

From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 21
Summary:

CD should remove packing moss, and he will find bladders in foot-stalks of Utricularia DN sent.

Experimenting on insectivorous plants.

Implores CD to visit.

Thanks for photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9218

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 12
Summary:

Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.

Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9643

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

DCP-LETT-9645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 336–7
Summary:

Describes his observations on Utricularia montana.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9646

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

DCP-LETT-9647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 338
Summary:

Asks JDH to cut a bit of root from old Utricularia and bring it with him to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9648

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:
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DCP-LETT-9653

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
22 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 84
Summary:

Thanks for sending papers by Hermann Hoffmann.

Discusses spiral cells in Drosera and Pinguicula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9651

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

DCP-LETT-9652

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

DCP-LETT-9656

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:
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DCP-LETT-9655

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:
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DCP-LETT-9657

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 162
Summary:

Comments on digestive action of pepsin and hydrochloric acid.

Photograph of Rubens’ picture has not arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9659

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
26 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 10 (EH 88205935)
Summary:

JL’s two articles in Nature ["Common wild flowers", 10 (1874): 402–6, 422–6].

Cautions against C. K. Sprengel’s notion of bees’ being deceived by nectarless nectary.

Colour of calyces.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9660

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
27 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 85
Summary:

Returns copy of Botanische Zeitung.

Responds to comments on Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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