From:
Thomas Bridges
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Oct 1860 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 85: 39
Summary:
Answers to queries on expression with respect to Fuegians.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 202
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 397
Summary:
CD would have carried the public more if he had explained adaptations by multiple causes, some unknown and some well known, i.e., natural selection.
Discusses Hooker’s views of extinction on St Helena.
Work on antiquity of man suspended.
Stopped by 11th edition of Principles of geology [1872].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
5 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Answers HGB’s criticism of Origin.
Explains HGB’s case of differences in rats by adaptation.
CD’s view explains homological and embryological resemblances of each type.
Does not believe all development is at same rate. Cites Australian forms.
Does not see force of objection that origin of life must be explained.
Asks if C. L. Brehm’s subspecies of birds are really characteristic of regions of Germany.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
5 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 14 (EH 88205998)
Summary:
A poser: carbonate of soda produces inflection rather than contraction in Drosera. Possible solution: glands at end of hairs absorb as well as secrete. Fascinated by currents in cells after inflection.
Contributor:
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From:
James Drummond
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 162.2: 242
Summary:
Observations of Brunonia and a case of a malvaceous flower, which never opened and was self-fertilised.
Contributor:
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From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 54–7
Summary:
Thanks CD for his patience and good-nature; does not want a controversial correspondence but wishes to reply to matters in CD’s letter, and does.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[10 Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 13 (EH 88205997)
Summary:
Delighted to try experiments on Drosera spathulata.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
11 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A79–80
Summary:
Sends further details on the movement of the red fluid substance in Drosera. Will write a paper on it.
"Dr [C. R.] Bree ""pitches"" into me handsomely."
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
12 [Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 16 (EH 88206000)
Summary:
Requests DO apply carbonate of ammonia to sensitive hair of Dionaea and measure reaction time. Wants to compare Drosera and Dionaea.
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From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 or 15] Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 317
Summary:
Does not remember his criticisms of CD’s theory. Can CD locate them in book?
Criticises analogy between knowledge of electricity and knowledge of origin of life.
Explains A. E. Brehm’s concept of subspecies. Discusses subspecies of Certhia.
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From:
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
13 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 4
Summary:
Has not himself experimented with delicacy of tests but sends several illustrations of what other authorities have done. Reference to James Marsh’s test for arsenic and that of Ashley Paston Price for iodine.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
14 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 314
Summary:
Discusses letter from A. W. v. Hofmann concerning solution of iodine in water.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
14 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 17 (EH 88206001)
Summary:
Has examined nearly all British orchids.
Hooker’s error on Listera.
Change in colour and consistency of Drosera hair glands after leaf inflection. Analogous structures in Dionaea. Requests Oliver confirm these observations on live plants, of which he has none.
In a muddle over the effects of salts on insectivorous plants.
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15–16 Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 58.2: 53
Summary:
Extracts from botanical literature dealing with Dionaea, intercrossing, and sensitivity. [Bot. Ztg. (1833): 96; Thomas Nuttall, Genera of N. American plants (1818)].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Medows Rodwell
Date:
15 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 149
Summary:
Comments on Rodwell’s discussion of the “struggle for life” with reference to languages and G. H. Lewes’s article in the Cornhill Magazine (Lewes 1860, pp. 445–7). Comments on Rodwell’s account of horses affected by mildewed pasturage, and asks for more information about his white cat.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
17 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 18 (EH 88206002)
Summary:
Thanks for information and extracts.
M. A. Curtis, quoted in ["Dionaea"] Penny encyclopedia [(1837) 8: 508], gives the only full account of Dionaea.
Concurs in DO’s explanation of Dionaea footstalk cells, which CD took for stomata.
Is using carbonate of ammonia as a substitute for flies and colour change in glands as index of action on Drosera. Suspects other nitrogenous compounds do not act till decomposed into carbonate of ammonia. Beginning to write Drosera paper. Action of nitrogenous compounds.
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From:
R. M. Rolfe
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 101
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Patterson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 89–90
Summary:
Sends an account of the destruction of wild rabbits by rats introduced from a wrecked ship.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[19 Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 315
Summary:
Obliged for note of 16th.
Failed to enclose letter from Hofmann.
Will be glad to read A. S. Taylor’s work [On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 2d ed. (1859)].
Daughter Henrietta still weak.
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