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DCP-LETT-9676

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 101–3
Summary:

Suggests an explanation for difference in excitability of Drosera leaves to meat and albumen on the one hand and, on the other, fibrin, areolar tissue, gelatin, and fibrous basis of bone.

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DCP-LETT-9677

From:
William Henry Mahoney Christie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 147
Summary:

Announces arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at Canterbury, New Zealand.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9677A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 185: 107
Summary:

CD responds [to 9667] with description of his own effort to study Aldrovanda and his observations on the structure of Dionaea.

His admiration for FJC’s earlier studies of the Venus’s fly-trap.

He urges FJC to proceed promptly with publication of his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 1, Heft 3 (1875): 71–92].

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DCP-LETT-9674

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
12 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Parish and family news.

Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9675

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 99–100
Summary:

Sends specimens of Byblis, Roridula, and Utricularia for CD’s examination.

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