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DCP-LETT-9493

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 439
Summary:

In doubt about size of printing of the 2d edition of Descent. Profit on 2000 at 12s would be only £250.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9492

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 185
Summary:

AG’s article in Nature was "just and moderate".

Sends his review of C. Hodge’s What is Darwinism? (1874) [Nation 18 (1874): 348–51].

It is uphill work making a theist out of CD.

Gives further observations on Sarracenia variolaris.

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DCP-LETT-9494

From:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 283
Summary:

Wants information from CD for a revision of the supplement of his work on timber trees and other industrial plants [Proc. Zool. & Acclim. Soc. Victoria 3 (1874): 47–95].

Reports the ruin of his department thanks to two papers by Edward Wilson, McKinnon, and Sparrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
17 June [1874]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 118–119)
Summary:

Asks JVC if he can provide introductions in Leipzig and Dresden for his son George.

Has not yet received any revised sheets of Descent [2d English ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
17 June [1874]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 340–1)
Summary:

Hopes a printing of 2000 copies [of Descent, 2d ed.] will be safe. Regrets price must be 12s. He is sure it is much improved.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9497

From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 108
Summary:

Sends CD some cobra poison for his experiments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9498

From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 166
Summary:

Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.

Shark embryology.

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DCP-LETT-9201

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 137; Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154)
Summary:

Sends references on Utricularia and Pinguicula.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9499

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 June 1874
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154)
Summary:

Asks for living plant of Utricularia and information on Pinguicula lusitanica. Gives notes on habitats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9500

From:
William Williams Keen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 169: 3
Summary:

The lack of a hereditary effect of circumcision among Jews argues against CD’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9502

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 60–1
Summary:

Sends cartilage from cat’s ear, the elastic fibres of which will probably resist digestion [by Drosera]. Is preparing fibro-cartilage, which he expects will be digested easily. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 104.]

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DCP-LETT-9501

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 186
Summary:

Writes of his article in Nature. Corrects some errors that have appeared in the published version.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC799

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Henry? Smith
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.98, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9503

From:
Henry William Jackson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 47: 203–4
Summary:

Cites instances of invariable correlations of colour he has observed in cats, dogs, and sheep. [See Variation, 2d ed., 2: 316.]

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DCP-LETT-9504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
21 June [1874]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-2)
Summary:

Thanks for fibrin. Drosera and Pinguicula dissolve it thoroughly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9506

From:
Titus Munson Coan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 183
Summary:

Passes on his father’s answer to CD’s query about Hawaiian infanticide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9507

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 198, 198/2
Summary:

Will try to get certain insectivorous plants for CD, especially Utricularia. Is glad to hear he has taken up Drosera.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9505

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Date:
22 June 1874
Source of text:
Amy Nagashima (private collection)
Summary:

Will soon publish on insectivorous plants; asks for a particular observation on Dionaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9509

From:
Thomas Cooke Copland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 62–3
Summary:

Sends a description of Drosera dichotoma and its manner of fly-catching [see Insectivorous plants, p. 282].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 12–13)
Summary:

Has found Pinguicula excited by bits of leaves; appears to digest leaves and seeds. Plant not only insectivorous but graminivorous. Asks WTT-D to identify seeds.

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