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DCP-LETT-8980A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
16 July [1873]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Thanks EF for his offer of assistance. Could the viscid secretions [in glands of Drosera] contain pepsin? Will the sodium carbonate render the testing of organic matter difficult? [See 8979.] Will send the fluid in a fortnight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC364

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 July 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.12, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH reports that he & [Thomas Henry] Huxley are enjoying their time in France. He asks Thiselton-Dyer how his class is going [Thiselton-Dyer took over Huxley's summer course in elementary biology in 1873 as Huxley was away for his health]. JDH & Huxley have been studying a volcanic phenomenon [volcanic plug] & subsequent glacial action. JDH finds the scenery beautiful. Although the flora is diverse he is not collecting plants. Asks Thiselton-Dyer to tell Daniel Oliver he prefers Le Puy to Nuremberg & to pass on any messages from Oliver or [John] Smith.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-8980

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 166
Summary:

Sends a bottle containing fish which Lord Arthur Russell had promised to send.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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