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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-74-06-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Anthony Brownless
Date:
24 June 1874
Source of text:
UM 312, Registrar's correspondence, 1873/3, University of Melbourne Archives.Annotations on file cover: 'Date of letter 24. June 1874 When received 29. June 1874' and ‘Read at meeting of Council 29. June 1874’; 24 June 1874 was a Wednesday
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-74-06-24b

From:
Thomas Ware
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 June 1874
Source of text:
No. 4797, p. 469, unit 37, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office of Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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FVM-74-06-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Ware
Date:
25 June 1874
Source of text:
E74/8253, unit 742, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 June 1874
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (108)
Summary:

Remarks on his work on Pinguicula. Notes its digestive power; it absorbs nutritious matter from leaves and seeds as well as insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9510

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 334
Summary:

Returns proof of his note on brain for 2d ed. of Descent. Has added a reference to Abbé Lecomte’s "terrible pamphlet" [Le Darwinisme et l’origine de l’homme (1873)] "lest it be thought I meant our cher Owen".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9513

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 64–6
Summary:

Reports on his examination of the dried specimens of Pinguicula at Kew to answer CD’s query whether all species secrete.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9514F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Ralfs
Date:
[after 25 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 59.1: 88
Summary:

Wants particularly to know whether seeds or leaves of other plants are ever found adhering to the leaves of Pinguicula. Observations would perhaps best be made in a month or two.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9517G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Ball
Date:
26 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 258: 547
Summary:

Thanks for letter. CD’s nephew got into the club. The book about the beaver is probably that by Mr Morgan. Does not intend to publish further on the intelligence of the dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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