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DCP-LETT-10088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 271
Summary:

Glad to hear that ARW is so busy.

CD believes that he has thrown some light on the acquirement of the power of digestion in Droseraceae [in Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1229

From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
23 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1897
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10089

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 95, 96
Summary:

Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10090

From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 42
Summary:

Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.

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DCP-LETT-10091

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 95: 389
Summary:

Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10093

From:
Alice Margaret Stanley; Alice Margaret Lane Fox; Alice Margaret Pitt-Rivers
To:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Date:
25 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 170
Summary:

Recounts the removal and regrowth of her son’s extra digit; her grandfather showed the same condition.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10092

From:
Ludwik Masłowski
To:
John Murray
Date:
25 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 90
Summary:

Has received a confusing set of engravings, with both missing and superfluous illustrations [for Polish translation of Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10094

From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 213
Summary:

No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10095

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 33–4
Summary:

His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10097

From:
Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 27 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 240/1
Summary:

Gives extracts from her father’s diary concerning the amputation and regrowth of her sister’s extra finger.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10102

From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 36
Summary:

Italian translation of Variation will at last be published; will await second [English] edition to incorporate corrections.

Asks permission to translate Expression.

The second [Italian] edition of Origin is now in press.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10100

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 459
Summary:

Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10101

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 217
Summary:

Regrets he is too busy to accept CD’s invitation to visit Down, but could only thank him again for saving the Zoological Station from shipwreck.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10099

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 188
Summary:

Has received but not yet read Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10103

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 1d
Summary:

JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10104

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 35
Summary:

Will be delayed on Saturday because of unveiling of a monument to Sir J. Franklin at Westminster Abbey.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10105

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 460
Summary:

RC will confer with printer about type, etc., for reprint of Variation.

Only 250 copies remain of [2d ed. of] Descent – will print 1000 more for annual sale.

Expression does not move.

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