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DCP-LETT-10005

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A79
Summary:

Interested to hear about the peas.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10006

From:
William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 48
Summary:

Discusses feather as case of evolutionary atavism.

Will soon publish on siliceous sponges

and the skin of caterpillars.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10007

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 7
Summary:

Paralysis of the nervous system of Dionaea. Uses of tails of mice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10008

From:
Otto Zacharias
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 184: 1
Summary:

Intends to set up a biological periodical called “Darwinia” to spread and popularise Darwin’s theories; hopes CD may contribute a few words to the opening issue.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10007F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 June 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 35
Summary:

Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10010

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 341
Summary:

Playfair "disgusted at our pronunciamentos against the Bill". Burdon Sanderson and William Sharpey agreed to it. THH feels he must serve on Vivisection Commission.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10011

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 8
Summary:

May publish a lecture on insectivorous plants and would like to dedicate it to CD.

Wishes to become an F.R.S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10012

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 64
Summary:

Comments on Fritz Schultze, Kant und Darwin [1875].

Describes recent activities.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10013

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
11 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 24–5
Summary:

Has found that H. G. Bronn in the chapter appended to his translation of Origin cited ears and tail of mice as facts opposed to natural selection. Suggests RLT examine hairs of tails of mice for possible nerves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10014

From:
Fritz Schultze
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 67
Summary:

Comments on his book [Kant und Darwin: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Entwicklungslehre (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10015

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 9
Summary:

Has separated out a pepsin-like substance from the secretion of Drosera, which he proposes to call "Droserin".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10016

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 10
Summary:

Intends sending a paper containing some of his histological work [see "Freezing process for section-cutting; … staining and mounting sections", J. Anat. & Physiol. 9 (1875): 249–58].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10017

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 26
Summary:

RLT’s observations come too late, as CD’s book on Droseraceae has been printed.

Reports on his observations of ferment in secretions in Drosera rotundifolia and Drosophyllum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10020

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 11
Summary:

Is waiting impatiently for the appearance of CD’s book [Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10022

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 12
Summary:

Insectivorous plants: the means and site of absorption of digested animal matter. [Newspaper clipping enclosed.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10024

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 386–7
Summary:

Has come to Abinger Hall for a rest after Insectivorous plants, soon to appear. Is sick of the accursed subject.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10025

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 30–2
Summary:

Thiselton-Dyer’s appointment has come.

Wants to discuss insectivorous plants and get some experiments going.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10026

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 95: 388
Summary:

Rejoices at [Thiselton-Dyer’s] appointment.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
23 June 1875
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (SP.917)
Summary:

Gives a report on a paper by Thomas Powell on coral islands ["Notes on the nature and productions of several atolls of the Tokelan, Ellice, and Gilbert Groups, South Pacific", read 15 Apr 1875, not published].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10029

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 13
Summary:

An article on RLT’s lecture on insectivorous plants has appeared; the author adopts an anti-Darwinian attitude [see "Flower traps", Spectator 19 June 1875, pp. 784–5; RLT’s reply in Spectator 26 June 1875, pp. 816–17.]

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