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DCP-LETT-10132A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
22 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:

Obliged for his memoir ["On the avifauna of the Galapagos", Trans. Zool. Soc. (April 1875)]. His surprise that the birds from the different islands prove so similar. Comparison of the habits, nests, eggs of the commonest species of each island would throw a flood of light upon variation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10132F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anthelme (Pomona) Thozet
Date:
22 Aug 1875
Source of text:
Rockhampton Bulletin , 6 November 1875, p. 2
Summary:

Thanks for articles about moths sucking oranges.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10132

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Aug 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 86: B32
Summary:

Errata in first edition of Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10133

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
23 Aug 1875
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (28/3)
Summary:

Sends a moth from Queensland, Australia. The sender says a large number have been caught with proboscises embedded in oranges. CD interested as having a bearing on his Orchis work. Can AGB name the family and any closely allied English genus? The proboscis seems an extraordinary structure [see F. Darwin, "On the structure of the proboscis of Ophideres fullonica", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. n.s. 15 (1875): 384–9].

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FVM-75-08-23

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 August 1875
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10134

From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 99: 90–1
Summary:

"The moth is rightly named Ophideres Fullonica." Gives its range, family, allied European and British species, etc.

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DCP-LETT-10134A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
24 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 185: 99
Summary:

Responds to FJC’s criticism regarding "aggregation" as it occurs in protoplasm [see 10131].

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FVM-75-08-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Graham Berry
Date:
24 August 1875
Source of text:
H75/9684, unit 817, 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-75-08-25a

From:
Edward Ramsay
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 August 1875
Source of text:
ML MSS.2278, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-75-08-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
25 August 1875
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP4053

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
25 August 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/116
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10136

From:
Edward Arnott Clowes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 467
Summary:

R. Cooke has complained about the size of paper on which proofs are printed. He does not know that CD requested a larger size. Asks CD what should be done.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10135

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 466
Summary:

The two volumes of Variation [2d ed.] are unequal in size. Can CD reduce vol. 2 and increase vol. 1?

Does CD wish to publish Climbing plants [2d ed.] at once?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10136F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thereza Mary Llewelyn; Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne
Date:
27 Aug [1875-81]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 88953/4)
Summary:

Explains that the plant is not consuming the flies, but that they die becasue they get stuck in the flowers when fertilising them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10137

From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B3–4
Summary:

Clarifies his thoughts on "aggregation" in Drosera.

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DCP-LETT-10138

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
29 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 330–1)
Summary:

On publishing details of Variation [2d ed.].

CD mortified and annoyed to hear that RC has complained to Messrs Clowes of the extra expense because proofs for Climbing plants were put on wider paper at CD’s request.

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FVM-75-08-29

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
29 August 1875
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10139

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 468
Summary:

Apologises for the annoyance caused about the size of proof paper. Clears up misunderstanding. As for Climbing plants, RC thinks no less than 1500 copies of a book by CD should be printed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10140

From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 34
Summary:

Reports a competition between the air roots of two varieties of grapevines. The victor changed the flavour and shape of the loser’s fruit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10141

From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 147: 554
Summary:

Sends copy of his "Address [to the department of anthropology", Rep. BAAS 45 (1875): 142–56].

Notes criticism of remark by Walter Bagehot dealing with extinction of barbarians [cited in Descent 1: 239].

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