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DCP-LETT-9497

From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 108
Summary:

Sends CD some cobra poison for his experiments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9498

From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 166
Summary:

Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.

Shark embryology.

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DCP-LETT-9201

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 137; Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154)
Summary:

Sends references on Utricularia and Pinguicula.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9499

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 June 1874
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154)
Summary:

Asks for living plant of Utricularia and information on Pinguicula lusitanica. Gives notes on habitats.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9500

From:
William Williams Keen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 169: 3
Summary:

The lack of a hereditary effect of circumcision among Jews argues against CD’s views.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9502

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 60–1
Summary:

Sends cartilage from cat’s ear, the elastic fibres of which will probably resist digestion [by Drosera]. Is preparing fibro-cartilage, which he expects will be digested easily. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 104.]

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DCP-LETT-9501

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 186
Summary:

Writes of his article in Nature. Corrects some errors that have appeared in the published version.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9503

From:
Henry William Jackson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 47: 203–4
Summary:

Cites instances of invariable correlations of colour he has observed in cats, dogs, and sheep. [See Variation, 2d ed., 2: 316.]

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DCP-LETT-9504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
21 June [1874]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-2)
Summary:

Thanks for fibrin. Drosera and Pinguicula dissolve it thoroughly.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9506

From:
Titus Munson Coan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 183
Summary:

Passes on his father’s answer to CD’s query about Hawaiian infanticide.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9507

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 198, 198/2
Summary:

Will try to get certain insectivorous plants for CD, especially Utricularia. Is glad to hear he has taken up Drosera.

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DCP-LETT-9505

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Date:
22 June 1874
Source of text:
Amy Nagashima (private collection)
Summary:

Will soon publish on insectivorous plants; asks for a particular observation on Dionaea.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9509

From:
Thomas Cooke Copland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 62–3
Summary:

Sends a description of Drosera dichotoma and its manner of fly-catching [see Insectivorous plants, p. 282].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 12–13)
Summary:

Has found Pinguicula excited by bits of leaves; appears to digest leaves and seeds. Plant not only insectivorous but graminivorous. Asks WTT-D to identify seeds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6405F

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

Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9562

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 [June 1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 16–17)
Summary:

Describes how Pinguicula captures insects.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9512F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:
[before 25 June 1874]
Source of text:
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 23 (1874–5): 273–4
Summary:

Sends observations of poison acting on glands of Drosera. Poison acts as a stimulant to protoplasm. Very remarkable that poison acts so differently on the cilia and protoplasm of Drosera.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9204

From:
Thomas Aitken
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 25 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 150–2
Summary:

Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.

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DCP-LETT-9512

From:
John Ball
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 34
Summary:

Received CD’s note late and so could not comply, but promises to vote in future for anyone CD recommends for Athenaeum.

Will have new evidence on dog’s intelligence sent to CD.

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DCP-LETT-9514

From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 109
Summary:

Action of cobra poison.

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