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DCP-LETT-9676

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 101–3
Summary:

Suggests an explanation for difference in excitability of Drosera leaves to meat and albumen on the one hand and, on the other, fibrin, areolar tissue, gelatin, and fibrous basis of bone.

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DCP-LETT-9677

From:
William Henry Mahoney Christie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 147
Summary:

Announces arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at Canterbury, New Zealand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9677A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 185: 107
Summary:

CD responds [to 9667] with description of his own effort to study Aldrovanda and his observations on the structure of Dionaea.

His admiration for FJC’s earlier studies of the Venus’s fly-trap.

He urges FJC to proceed promptly with publication of his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 1, Heft 3 (1875): 71–92].

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DCP-LETT-9674

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
12 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Parish and family news.

Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9675

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 99–100
Summary:

Sends specimens of Byblis, Roridula, and Utricularia for CD’s examination.

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DCP-LETT-9678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
13 Oct 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-20)
Summary:

Discusses the powers of digestion of Drosera and why certain substances produce less excitement in the plant than others.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9678A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Mahoney Christie
Date:
13 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
CUL-RGO 6/273 (section 3-4: 381)
Summary:

Thanks WHMC and the Astronomer Royal for informing him of the safe arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at New Zealand. [See 9677.]

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FVM-74-10-13

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Robert Ramsay
Date:
13 October 1874
Source of text:
E74/13228, unit 747, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP3432

From:
J. de Mann? Brousce?
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 October 1874
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 103-104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9679

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
14 Oct 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.452)
Summary:

Thanks him for specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:
15 Oct 1874
Source of text:
Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:793)
Summary:

Writes about AHF’s book on Swiss ants.

Recounts his own observations on ants carrying cocoons.

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WCP5680

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
15 October 1874
Source of text:
McGill University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9681

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 104–5
Summary:

Responds to CD’s questions about relation to gelatin of areolar tissue, fibrous basis of bone, and other substances CD is using in his work on digestion of Drosera.

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FL-0757

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[18 Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 118
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9683

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 41
Summary:

Has been invited to lecture at the Royal Institution by Spottiswoode. Discusses subjects he might deal with and his reasons for attempting it.

Tells of a complicated case of a double sale of a living.

Huxley says F. M. Balfour passed brilliantly.

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DCP-LETT-9682

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
18 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Summary:

Thanks WBD for his book, Cave hunting (1874).

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FVM-74-10-18a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Robert Ramsay
Date:
18 October 1874
Source of text:
E74/13578, unit 747, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-10-18c

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 October 1874
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-10-18

From:
Morton Allport
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 October 1874
Source of text:
Letter press copy book, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9685

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
18 Oct 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 345–6)
Summary:

Thanks for Quarterly Review [Oct 1874, containing G. H. Darwin’s letter and a rejoinder]. Is convinced the author is Mivart. Is therefore not surprised at malice in the article attacking his son [George Darwin] and grossly misrepresenting CD.

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