From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 87
Summary:
Sends CD some of the Cytisus, which has produced yellow flowers on a purple graft.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Odoardo Beccari
Date:
10 July 1875
Source of text:
University of Florence, Science Library: Botany, Archives, Beccari 12/32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
William Clowes & Sons
Date:
11 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B24
Summary:
Sends errata for Insectivorous plants 2d printing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 79
Summary:
Asks CD’s opinion of an experiment on Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 94
Summary:
WTT-D and E. R. Lankester wish to visit CD.
Has corrected some references for new edition of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 175
Summary:
Fairy-rings grow because the fungal spawn radiates outwards then dies off at the centre as it becomes exhausted. The verdure of the grass depends upon the decay of the fungus supplying nitrogenous manure. Rings are formed mainly in upland pastures poor in nitrogenous matter. Gives examples of woodland fungi that form rings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 [July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 29
Summary:
Thanks CD again for his book [Insectivorous plants];
would like an autograph to put in it.
Would be delighted if ever she could visit Down again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 39
Summary:
Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 18
Summary:
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 14
Summary:
Has read Insectivorous plants and is to review it for the Spectator.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B23
Summary:
First proof of errata slip for inclusion in Insectivorous plants 2d thousand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project