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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[July 1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Summary:

Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
1 July [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 145–146)
Summary:

Insectivorous plants to be published in two or three days.

Climbing plants and 2d ed. of Variation will be published early in November.

Has no strength for corrections for the new printing of Origin, though many are desired.

Pleased that JVC will translate Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[1 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 123
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 33
Summary:

Thanks CD for his book [Insectivorous plants].

Would like to visit again before August.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 July] 1875
Source of text:
Lubbock family (private collection)
Summary:

A poem on Insectivorous Plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 456
Summary:

CD’s pessimistic view [of prospective sale of Insectivorous plants] is to blame for the small printing. Murray’s printed only 1250 copies and sold 1700. A thousand more have been ordered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
4 July [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 332–3)
Summary:

Very glad about sales [of Insectivorous plants]. CD had hard work to persuade Murray to increase printing to 1250 copies, but owns he thought that number would last for eternity. U. S. publication and French, German, and Russian translations in the offing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Sachs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 4
Summary:

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Has just finished his Geschichte der Botanik [1875].

Compares action of Drosera glands to action of sprouting embryo and to action of roots in absorbing minerals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 334
Summary:

Discusses case of Cytisus graft described by JJW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 195
Summary:

Thanks CD for a copy of Insectivorous plants.

Describes experiment on Drosera carried out with his pupils.

Describes reception of the book at the University of Zurich.

Comments on Nägeli’s concept of a "morphological species".

Expresses belief in importance of natural selection.

Mentions his forthcoming publication ["Ulothrix zonata", Jahrb. f. wiss. Bot. 10 (1876): 417–550].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 85
Summary:

Yellow flowers occurring on a purple Cytisus grafted onto a yellow stock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 78
Summary:

Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 9
Summary:

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Intrigued by the analogy between fairy-rings and annular skin diseases, e.g., herpes and psoriasis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 234
Summary:

Thanks CD for his new volume [Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 23–4)
Summary:

Discusses corrections to Variation.

Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 86
Summary:

Yellow and purple flowers occur on plant grafted with Cytisus purpureus, but only on separate racemes. Only yellow blooms seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Spencer Baynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 100
Summary:

Asks CD to write short article on breeds and breeding for new edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Huxley has suggested natural history topics to be covered, and recommended CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 113
Summary:

Thanks for copy of CD’s latest work [Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
8 July [1875]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library (Rare Books MSS Acc. 324)
Summary:

Is very interested in JJW’s report on a purple laburnum grafted onto yellow stock which then produces yellow flowers. CD requests racemes to examine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rudolf Ehrenfried (Rudolf) Riemann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 176: 157, 157/1
Summary:

Professional sheep-breeder interested in laws of inheritance reports his crosses between Serinus hortulanus and Dryospiza canaria. Seeks to make a new species. Crosses carried out with animals varying in their proportion of Serinus and Dryospiza parentage. Confirms Prosper Lucas’ law as given in Origin, ch. 9, with exception that strong individuals exhibit prepotency.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project