From:
William James Lloyd Wharton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Sept 1874 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A67–70
Summary:
Describes the coral formations of the island of Rodriguez [Indian Ocean].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 12
Summary:
Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 222–3
Summary:
Forwards a letter reporting on a blow-fly trapped by a leaf of Dionaea; decomposition of fly has also decomposed the leaf. JDH has written asking for a strong plant, and explaining the case [of surfeit].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Ross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 217
Summary:
Sends his book [On protoplasm (1874)], which defends CD’s theory.
Suggests why the lips are closed and the teeth clenched in the expression of determination: it originated as a means of protecting jaw-bone and teeth against a strong blow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 24
Summary:
Hooker has told her of CD’s work on insectivorous plants. Offers plants, but her Dionaea plants are too small now.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 146
Summary:
Will prepare experiments with the fatty acids on digestion of gluten. Has found it is digested slowly, but entirely, with pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 181: 172, 173 f. 6
Summary:
Writes at length on the origins and meanings of particular head movements as used to express assent or disagreement, especially the sideways movements of the head as an expression of consideration or contemplation.
Also discusses space and colour perception.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 86–7
Summary:
Observations of effect of pepsin and hydrochloric acid on urea indicate that it is not digested [by Drosera].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 128–9
Summary:
Sends Pinguicula vulgaris leaves with seeds on them, together with his observations on proportion of leaves with insects on them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 20
Summary:
Offers Utricularia montana and gives instructions for growing Drosera.
Wishes to visit CD at Down when she comes to London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 334–335
Summary:
Lady Dorothy Nevill has no Dionaea.
CD anxious to talk with JDH about Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Price
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 90
Summary:
Observations on flotation of Utricularia vulgaris.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 19
Summary:
Has sent the Utricularia with the bladders that CD described.
In Variation CD does not mention a rare breed of Siamese cat, which she owns.
Asks for another photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 143
Summary:
An anonymous letter praising the Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 174: 35
Summary:
He has physical peculiarities that support CD’s theories: e.g., ability to dilate nostrils like a rabbit and to spread out the toes of both feet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Simms
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 164
Summary:
Sends copy of one of his books.
Asks for drawing of CD’s right foot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 88–9; DAR 103: 221; Insectivorous plants , p. 5 n.
Summary:
Thiselton-Dyer’s announcement of his inability to continue as JDH’s private secretary is a blow. He will now be doing original work. JDH is glad of that but the loss of his help is great.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray, Jr; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 440
Summary:
Sends CD a statement of number of thousands of copies printed thus far [by Murray’s] of: Journal of researches (12), Origin (13), Descent (10), and Expression (9).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Marlow Wilkinson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 91–2
Summary:
Utricularia has broken into pieces and appears to be decaying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William James Lloyd Wharton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A63–6
Summary:
Describes the coral formations of Zanzibar and east coast of Africa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
