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DCP-LETT-9037

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
Date:
[Sept 1873]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828); Smithsonian Libraries (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks for observations on worm-castings and for JLGK’s amusing letter.

Wants to know whether species of Eucalyptus are dichogamous. [The P.S. on Eucalyptus may be part of another letter to another correspondent.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9040

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
1 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 152)
Summary:

Has been in bed for some days with ugly head symptoms. "We are a poor lot."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9039

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Theodor Gomperz
Date:
1 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
Cedric Hausherr (private collection)
Summary:

Will reread and consider TG’s letter when his health improves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC621

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 September 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 4, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9041

From:
Andrew Clark, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 151
Summary:

Diagnosis of CD’s illness; prescribed diet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
4 Sept 1873
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (August 2015)
Summary:

Orders list of chemical salts. Ashamed to order from Hopkins and Williams because they charge him such an extremely low rate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9040F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[4 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.9: 2
Summary:

Asks FD to bring any book that gives the affinities of the various earths, alkalis and metals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
5 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.431)
Summary:

Orders salts of various metals; thinks chlorides (where soluble) would be better than nitrates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9044

From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 120
Summary:

Proud of CD’s good opinion of him. He worked in a merchant’s office in Germany for many years. Emigrated to Australia as a gold-digger and took up natural history after he was 30.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9045

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
7 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 345
Summary:

Thanks JC-B for volume of Asylum reports and paper on epilepsy. Seems clear from reports that physiology of brain will soon be largely understood.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9046

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
8 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 6 (EH 88206058)
Summary:

Requests chemicals for Drosera experiments. Lists 12 acids tried so far.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9047

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-14)
Summary:

Pleased JSBS has decided to work on Drosera; sends plants. Does not know whether thermo-electric pile could detect temperature change when leaves close.

CD’s experiment with very weak hydrochloric acid repeated with success: the plants digest albumen more quickly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9048

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman
Date:
9 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS-58)
Summary:

Thanks TFC for his extremely interesting paper ["On the fertilisation of the New Zealand species of Pterostyles", Trans. & Proc. N. Z. Inst. 5 (1872): 352–7]. Has no doubt his explanation [of the fertilisation mechanism] is correct. The case is analogous to that of the Cypripedium though TFC’s case is much more curious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9049

From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 220
Summary:

Comparative study of "ethnical scriptures" shows that natural selection has operated in the evolution of religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9050

From:
William Swift Wade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 181: 1
Summary:

Reports case of a man with an eyelid abnormality that apparently was acquired in infancy but was inherited by his children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9051

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:
12 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for strange debate, which CD returns. Principle of evolution has first-rate supporters in [Edward Sylvester?] Morse and Theodore Nicholas Gill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9053

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 320
Summary:

Thanks CD for his praise of West Riding Asylum Medical Reports.

Hopes CD will come to Asylum if he attends BAAS meeting at Bradford.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9052

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 274–6
Summary:

Thanks JDH and Thiselton-Dyer for useful information.

Is surprised Mimosa albida is not sensitive to water. Asks that they try again, or lend it to him.

Remembers a walk in Brazil in great bed of Mimosa.

After JDH left, CD was very bad, with much loss of memory and severe shocks continually passing through his brain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9055

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
13 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-15)
Summary:

Thanks JSBS for telegraphing his results, which seem very remarkable; feels he should now try Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9056

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-9)
Summary:

Very pleased at JSBS’s discovery ["On the electrical phenomena which accompany the contractions of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Rep. BAAS 43 (1873): 133].

Asks for pure animal substances [proteins] for Drosera experiments. His other sources have been T. L. Brunton, Edward Frankland, W. A. Miller (now dead), and Hoffmann of Berlin [A. W. von Hofmann?].

Contributor:
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