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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
28 July [1875]
Source of text:
Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018
Summary:
Apologises that he cannot supply any maize seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
Date:
28 July 1875
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 318)
Summary:
Asks HAH to keep Francis Darwin’s nomination paper [for Linnean Society] for Huxley to sign on return. FD appends personal note.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project