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DCP-LETT-9517

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 144–5, 153–4
Summary:

Is delighted to hear that Pinguicula and Drosera digest fibrin. Suggests diluting gluten in weak hydrochloric acid to remove starch. Enamel was nearly digested [by Drosera] overnight. Would like to try separating the digestive ferment of Pinguicula.

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FL-1358

From:
Darwin, E. A.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
26 June [1874–6]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 788
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-74-06-26

From:
Edward Ramsay
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 June 1874
Source of text:
RB MSS M126, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-06-26a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Ware
Date:
26 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.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
26 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 14–15)
Summary:

Thanks for letter and seeds.

Asks that Hooker return references about plants eating insects.

Discusses Pinguicula.

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DCP-LETT-9516

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 67–8
Summary:

Identifies seeds adhering to leaves of Pinguicula [see Insectivorous plants, p. 369].

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DCP-LETT-9517F

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[after 26 June – 28 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2
Summary:

Describes voyage to New Zealand.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9196F

From:
William de Wiveleslie Abney
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 148
Summary:

Answers questions about chemistry (see 9202).

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9196

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 31
Summary:

LD has misplaced some figures on which he was to work.

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DCP-LETT-9202

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
William de Wiveleslie Abney
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 147
Summary:

Asks for proportion of water and of nitrogen in various ammonium salts.

[WWA’s replies are with the letter.]

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DCP-LETT-9518

From:
Eliza Meteyard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 164
Summary:

Her memorial has passed and her civil list pension has been increased to £100 per annum for life.

Dr Johnson of Shrewsbury has R. W. Darwin letters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9566

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
27 [June 1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 18)
Summary:

Thanks for letter on Erica tetralix.

Identification of leaves digested by Pinguicula.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9519

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Moir; David Moore
Date:
28 June 1874
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin (DSS/DM/1/1/16)
Summary:

Requests live Utricularia and Drosophyllum at suggestion of W. T. Thiselton-Dyer.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9571

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 [June 1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 19–22)
Summary:

Must stop work on "bloom" and leaf movements if he is ever to get anything published on Drosera, etc.

Sends thanks for seeds. Encloses memorandum in case WTT-D wishes to communicate information to Royal Horticultural Society. Has not time to prepare article.

Discusses condition of plants borrowed from Kew.

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FL-0751

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[30 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 112
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9521

From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 69–72
Summary:

Reports on results of experiments on effect of cobra poison on animal cilia and muscle.

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DCP-LETT-9520

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 June [1874]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (109)
Summary:

Thanks for Sarracenia, which is as wonderful as any orchid.

Asks AG to observe Pinguicula.

Has read AG’s semi-theological review [Nation 18 (1874): 348–51] with interest

and has obtained the book [C. Hodge, What is Darwinism? (1874)].

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