From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Clinton Hart Merriam
Date:
1 June 1874
Source of text:
Waverly Auctions (dealers) (9 March 1983)
Summary:
Thanks CHM for a report about birds of the United States [see 9461].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gerald Geoghegan, Inland Revenue, Somerset House
To:
Walter White
Date:
3 June 1874
Source of text:
MM/22/36, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 June [1874]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (103)
Summary:
CD is deeply pleased by AG’s article on him in Nature [10 (1874): 79–81].
Is preparing book on "Drosera and Co." for the printers. Reports observations on digestion in Drosera and Pinguicula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
4 June 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.222-224, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 8–9)
Summary:
Discusses effects of water on movement of insectivorous plants.
Has just found that Pinguicula can digest albumen.
Asa Gray writes that Sarracenia secretes trail of fluid to attract insects [see 9455].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ignatius Loyola (Ignatius) Donnelly
Date:
5 June [1874]
Source of text:
Minnesota Historical Society (Ignatius Donnelly papers)
Summary:
Thanks ID for interesting and curious facts but doubts that he will have time to enter more closely into the subject of the intellect of animals.
Nothing would give CD more "pleasure & interest" than to see ID’s country, "now so great & destined to be so much greater", but he is quite incapable of "so great an exertion as crossing the Atlantic".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 June [1874]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (104)
Summary:
Profoundly grateful for AG’s article in Nature; he is especially pleased by what AG says about teleology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 56–7
Summary:
Sends information on nitrogen and albuminoid content of seeds of Brassica.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[6 June 1874]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/4.l.1; Reel 11
Summary:
Encloses inventory of JH's unpublished manuscripts on General History of Double Stars, which AH forwarded to R.A.S. Estimates final total of JH's double star observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
8 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C61–2
Summary:
Asks what proportion of leaves of Pinguicula have insects adhering to them. Also, whether seeds of any plants ever adhere to the leaves, and in what situations does P. vulgaris grow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 58–9
Summary:
Sends her observations on Dionaea capturing insects. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 311–12.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 June 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.435)
Summary:
Asks about insects and seeds on leaves of Pinguicula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 10)
Summary:
Did not know cabbage contained so much nitrogen.
Pinguicula more excited by seeds than Drosera. Asks for information about Pinguicula.
Asks name of weed.
Asks to borrow Utricularia plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
10 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 23
Summary:
Comments on GHD’s paper ["Marriages between first cousins in England and their effects", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 18 (1875): 22–41]. Hopes it will be published and read at the Statistical Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 225
Summary:
Charles Martins has given the first Darwinian lectures on zoology at Montpellier.
Joseph Duval-Jouve is also a Darwinian. The latter has lost his position as Inspector of the Academy because of his liberal views.
Wallace suggests that a trap-door spider with an exposed nest preys on nocturnal insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James William Helenus Trail
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC 215 folfio 257
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
12 June 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-18)
Summary:
JSBS’s article in Nature ["Venus’s fly-trap", 10 (1874): 105–7, 127–8] could not have been better done.
Has found another plant, Pinguicula, which can catch and digest flies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 June 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 147
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
12 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 382
Summary:
Did not know Duval-Jouve was an evolutionist.
Delighted at JTM’s success with spiders.
On JTM’s experiments with acids on seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
15 June 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.37-38, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project