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DCP-LETT-13792

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Oct 1874 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 62.10.1)
Summary:

CD cannot come to London to sit for photograph. Sends one taken by son [Leonard], which family considers the best likeness. CD would be glad to give a sitting at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9666

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 92
Summary:

Notes that Mr[s] Barber’s communication [forwarded by CD] will be published because of more striking than usual facts ["Notes on … larva and pupa of Papilio nireus", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1874): 519–21].

Encloses Thomas Belt’s address.

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FL-1221

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[October 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1534
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9665

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 421–422
Summary:

Thanks JDH for extract on Hedychium pollination; it shows CD’s prior interpretation was incorrect.

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FL-0972

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
2 October [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9667

From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 95–6
Summary:

An account of his observations on Aldrovanda and Utricularia.

Sends CD his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1875) Heft 3: 71–92] in advance of publication [see Insectivorous plants, pp. 321 et seq., 395–6].

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FL-1033

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
4 October 1874
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-74-10-06a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
6 October 1874
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London,, Owen correspondence, vol. XIX, ff. 378-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP3431

From:
Frederic Chapman
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 October 1874
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 102
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9668

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
8 Oct 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.451)
Summary:

Thanks JC-B for copy of Medical Reports of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC373

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
8 October 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH asks Thiselton-Dyer if the proof of his 'address' has been sent to the publisher, Griffith. JDH describes his present location, Alderley Grange in Wotton under Edge, as 'a lovely place'. Whilst there he is working on the Royal Society address & the 'Primer' [refers to the series of 'Science Primer' books published by Macmillan, for which Hooker wrote the volume entitled BOTANY (1876)]. The following week JDH will go to Bewdley, then to stay with [George] Maw at Broseley, Shropshire, before returning to Kew. In a post script JDH adds that he has read & enjoyed CRUISE ON WHEELS [by Charles Allston Collis] & is now reading [George Eliot's] SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, the best thing he has read in years, either fact or fiction. He specifically mentions the story JANET'S REPENTANCE.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9669

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-19)
Summary:

Has been testing the digestive powers of Drosera; wants to know whether a group of substances that elicit similar responses are related.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9671

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 97–8
Summary:

Sends information CD requested on phosphate of ammonia and on nitrogenous substances produced during putrefaction of animal matter.

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DCP-LETT-9670

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 341a
Summary:

Asks JDH for leaves of Byblis and Roridula to examine, and D. Oliver for an anomalous species of Utricularia.

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DCP-LETT-9672

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 146: 353
Summary:

Doubts whether sudden and great variations often occur.

Comments on colours of flowers.

Contributor:
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FVM-74-10-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
10 October 1874
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-10-10a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Robert Ramsay
Date:
10 October 1874
Source of text:
E74/12939, unit 747, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-10-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Ware
Date:
11 October 1874
Source of text:
F74/13150, unit 747, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9673A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
11 Oct 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Acknowledges the information about the phosphate and about putrefaction. Regrets that there is no knowledge of the conjectured substance. [See 9671.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9673

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 226–7
Summary:

Oliver will attend to his letter.

Tells of discovery and rediscovery of Aldrovanda.

Asks what CD thinks of "old Pritchard’s discourse" [C. Pritchard, Natural science and natural religion (1874)]. Does not affect evolution at all. It does affect the rather unprofitable doctrine of materialism.

His plans for the Royal Society Presidential Address.

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