From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
J. C. Kemp
Date:
[26 May 1874]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers): (16 October 1978)
Summary:
There is no uniform edition of CD’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
27 May [1874]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-3)
Summary:
Thanks JSBS for his work. CD concludes the ferment of Drosera must differ from pepsin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 May [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 21
Summary:
D. A. Spalding has asked for information to help with his experiments on sense of direction in animals. Has arrived at same results as GHD with blindfolded children. Will GHD let him have his results?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[29 May 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 22
Summary:
CD has forwarded proofs of Descent [2d edition]. Urges GHD not to work on them if his poor health makes them too tiring.
Thanks GHD about Spalding [i.e., for responding to Spalding’s request, see 9472].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
30 May 1874
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks GdeS for his "Études sur la végétation" [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 5th ser. 15 (1872): 277–315]. "Nothing can be more important … than your evidence of the extremely slow and gradual manner in which specific forms change."
Hopes GdeS will shed light on whether polymorphic forms like Rubus and Hieracium are generating new species at present; CD doubts this.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
31 May [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.442)
Summary:
Comments on CL’s planned bequest to science. CD would do the same if he had fewer sons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project