From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 142
Summary:
Sends papers and references.
Reports his microscopic observations on Drosera and other plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Verrell
Date:
21 Sept 1874
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (August 1979)
Summary:
"Nature published last Thursday has not yet arrived."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
21 Sept 1874 and 29 Jan 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Head movements and their expressive significance. [P.S. explains letter was returned to CD because of a mistake in the address.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
22 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 84
Summary:
Thanks for sending papers by Hermann Hoffmann.
Discusses spiral cells in Drosera and Pinguicula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 110
Summary:
Sends CD his photo
and a copy of his address at Hartford ["Change by gradual modification not the universal law", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1874) pt 2: 7–12]. Does not believe his observations are unfavourable to natural selection but feels there are other factors involved in the origin of form.
Discusses further his work on colour and sex in plants; the linking of high colour and maleness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 22
Summary:
Will send a different Utricularia species when the seedlings are better established.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 153
Summary:
Sends a copy of his book on Swiss ants [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Notes points and passages that he thinks will interest CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 224–5
Summary:
CD’s Utricularia findings – bladders, subterranean roots, and insects decomposing in them – a grand discovery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.450)
Summary:
Discusses paper on volcanoes by J. W. Judd.
Comments on volcanoes of the S. American Cordillera.
Mentions paper by T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
[William Henry Smith]
Date:
24 September 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.99, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 162
Summary:
Comments on digestive action of pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
Photograph of Rubens’ picture has not arrived.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1874
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 457
Summary:
Notes recent confirmation of CD’s views on subsidence in [island of] St Jago.
Describes Carboniferous strata discovered on Island of Mull by J. W. Judd. Contained evidence of Miocene sinking of volcanoes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
26 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 10 (EH 88205935)
Summary:
JL’s two articles in Nature ["Common wild flowers", 10 (1874): 402–6, 422–6].
Cautions against C. K. Sprengel’s notion of bees’ being deceived by nectarless nectary.
Colour of calyces.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
27 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 85
Summary:
Returns copy of Botanische Zeitung.
Responds to comments on Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:
28 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:792)
Summary:
Thanks AHF for his book on ants of Switzerland;
recommends reading Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 339
Summary:
Queries about species of Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 93–94
Summary:
Information about various species of Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 340–341
Summary:
The Aldrovanda has arrived. Has examined the leaves. It is an aquatic Dionaea which has acquired some structures identical to those of Utricularia!
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
