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DCP-LETT-10179G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas William Newton
Date:
1 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (dealers) (27 May 2021, lot 0090)
Summary:

Sends his compliments and thanks [with payment of £13 to TWN for compiling catalogue of CD’s books].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
3 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 146: 354
Summary:

Comments on review [of Insectivorous plants] in New York Independent.

Working on Cross and self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10180

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 29–30)
Summary:

Suggests WTT-D read account of Bignonia capreolata in forthcoming Climbing plants.

Plans experiments [on Melastomataceae]. Describes similar experiment performed on Monochaetum. Interested in meaning of differently coloured stamens.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
6 Oct 1875
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 326–7)
Summary:

Fears Variation [2d ed.] will not be ready for Murray’s annual sale unless printer sends proof more quickly. Arrangements with Italian publishers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
7 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1595)
Summary:

Comments on the sudden death of Chauncey Wright.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
8 Oct 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.477)
Summary:

CD is circulating certificate proposing GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses hybrid potatoes from Germany.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10195

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edouard Bergson
Date:
13 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 143: 111
Summary:

Comments on difficulty of distinguishing between lower animal and vegetable organisms.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10196

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 48
Summary:

Pleased by W. Stanley Jevons’ letter.

Has ordered Dr Cohn’s book.

Is sure that GHD’s energy will lead to success with work on viscous fluids.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 392–3
Summary:

R. L. Tait has requested CD send his [Tait’s] paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society. CD considers this a nuisance.

Certificate for G. J. Romanes.

Francis’ experiments on mechanism of twisted seeds.

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DCP-LETT-10198

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
14 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 135–136)
Summary:

Sends sheets of Climbing plants [2d ed.], which will be published in November. Suggests JVC have someone translate it under his supervision,

since he has not yet finished Insectivorous plants.

Admires the appearance of [German ed. of] Journal of researches.

Discusses other publication prospects.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10199

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
14 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (MS 331 box 1 folder 11)
Summary:

Will be happy to present RLT’s paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10200

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 394–6
Summary:

Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.

Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.

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DCP-LETT-10201

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Max Müller
Date:
15 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 427
Summary:

Thanks FMM for his essay [see 10194]. Though some of FMM’s remarks are "stinging", they have all been made "gracefully".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10202

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 33–4)
Summary:

Thanks for information. Absorption of ammonium carbonate by glandular hairs.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Summary:

JT’s tube [of boiled infusion] dated 16 Oct was clear on 19th; on the 20th it was muddy and contained many bacteria in living movement.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
21 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8264)
Summary:

Thanks for excellent notice of Chauncey Wright.

Would like a copy of Wright’s "Darwinism in Germany" [Nation 21 (1875): 168–70].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10209

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 397–8
Summary:

Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.

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DCP-LETT-10210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 35–6)
Summary:

Encloses manuscript [missing] by George King ["Sport in Paritium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 101–3].

Sends thanks to Hooker for correction of name. Mentions other errors.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10216

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 324–5)
Summary:

Sends list for complimentary copies and suggests various arrangements related to publication of Climbing plants.

Thinks a revised edition of Orchids is needed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10214

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 320)
Summary:

Thanks for THH’s essay on species [article for an American encyclopedia].

Will probably never again write on large and general subjects; will keep to easier specific ones such as insectivorous and climbing plants.

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