From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[July 1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Summary:
Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
1 July [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 145–146)
Summary:
Insectivorous plants to be published in two or three days.
Climbing plants and 2d ed. of Variation will be published early in November.
Has no strength for corrections for the new printing of Origin, though many are desired.
Pleased that JVC will translate Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
4 July [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 332–3)
Summary:
Very glad about sales [of Insectivorous plants]. CD had hard work to persuade Murray to increase printing to 1250 copies, but owns he thought that number would last for eternity. U. S. publication and French, German, and Russian translations in the offing.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 334
Summary:
Discusses case of Cytisus graft described by JJW.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 23–4)
Summary:
Discusses corrections to Variation.
Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
8 July [1875]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library (Rare Books MSS Acc. 324)
Summary:
Is very interested in JJW’s report on a purple laburnum grafted onto yellow stock which then produces yellow flowers. CD requests racemes to examine.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
10 July 1875
Source of text:
The National Library of Wales (NLW St Asaph Diocesan Records SA/CR/219)
Summary:
Enquires about fairy rings.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
10 July [1875]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Thanks MTM for his excellent review [of Insectivorous plants]
and for his trouble about the gooseberry.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
10 July 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.466); DAR 148: 336
Summary:
Regarding Cytisus graft with yellow flowers, CD thinks nurseryman has sold Cytisus adami to JJW’s brother in place of C. purpureus. This explains apparent "sport". [P.S. on envelope:] C. purpureus seeds freely. C. adami never does.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
12 July 1875
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/24)
Summary:
Describes difficulty of conditions for the experiment with Drosera suggested by THF.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
12 July [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.471)
Summary:
Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.
Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.
Alludes to Pangenesis.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mr Russell
Date:
12 July 1875
Source of text:
James Lowe Autographs (dealer) (Cat. 42)
Summary:
Acknowledges with thanks "Mr Fitzgerald’s magnificent work" [R. D. Fitzgerald’s Australian orchids, part 1 (1875)]. [See 10069.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
14 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 337
Summary:
JJW is to think no more about mistake [regarding Cytisus graft].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
15 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 122
Summary:
Sends his autograph
and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would be pleased to see DN at Down.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
17 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 86
Summary:
Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
17 July 1875
Source of text:
Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018
Summary:
Asks about FH’s research on maize. Suggests experiments.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
17 July 1875
Source of text:
EAC Gallery (dealers) (autumn 2014)
Summary:
Thanks for KLR’s latest work (Rütimeyer 1875).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz
Date:
17 July 1875
Source of text:
Zoologische Staatssammlung München
Summary:
Is obliged to be given a second and improved edition of GKMvS’s excellent lectures.
Contributor:
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