Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
15 September [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.22
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 88–9; DAR 103: 221; Insectivorous plants , p. 5 n.
Summary:
Thiselton-Dyer’s announcement of his inability to continue as JDH’s private secretary is a blow. He will now be doing original work. JDH is glad of that but the loss of his help is great.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
Text Online
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[before 17 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645:107)
Summary:
Sends MS intended some day for the Viola tricolor section of Cross and self-fertilisation [pp. 123–8] to be used by JL in his British wild flowers (1875).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
18 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Stupidly missed Utricularia bladders, which he assumed were with the leaves. Has now found true bladders on roots and has evidence of captive prey. Thinks bladders capture subterranean insects. Thinks the large bladder-like structures are water reservoirs. DN’s plant has given him a most enjoyable day of work.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
20 Sept 1874
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/31)
Summary:
Thanks for 5th edition of his book [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte.
CD continues with his experiments on the digestive power of plants, which is much like that of mammals.
Is also preparing a revised edition of Descent.
Would welcome hearing more of his ideas about Pangenesis.
Postscript about Anthropogenie, which has just arrived. EH’s astonishing productivity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Verrell
Date:
21 Sept 1874
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (August 1979)
Summary:
"Nature published last Thursday has not yet arrived."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
21 Sept 1874 and 29 Jan 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Head movements and their expressive significance. [P.S. explains letter was returned to CD because of a mistake in the address.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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