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DCP-LETT-9535

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
7 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 417
Summary:

Asks about the effect of atropine on the eye. Is interested in parallel case: influence of phosphate of ammonia on glands of Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9538

From:
Evan Buchanan Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 96
Summary:

Sends quotation from R. C. Virchow which contravenes CD’s statement in Expression that there is no voluntary control of the iris.

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FVM-74-07-08

From:
Charles Stuart
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 July 1874
Source of text:
RB MSS M36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9537

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 204–5
Summary:

The appetite of Nepenthes for hard-boiled egg is prodigious.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9534F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Ralfs
Date:
8 July 1874
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 76527)
Summary:

Thanks for the Pinguicula plants, which have recovered, and asks if he could also send Utricularia, since his other supplies have failed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9539

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
9 July [1874]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 116–117)
Summary:

Advises JVC on how his publisher might deal with problem of getting satisfactory heliotype copies for 2d [German] edition of Expression.

Regrets that he will again be away in August, when JVC might have come for a visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9541

From:
David Moir; David Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 75–6
Summary:

Sends an Utricularia and a Drosophyllum.

Observations on Pinguicula grandiflora. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 390.]

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DCP-LETT-9540

From:
John Ralfs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 73–4
Summary:

Sends specimens of Pinguicula and observations made on them. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 390–1.]

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FVM-74-07-09

From:
Thomas Ware
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 July 1874
Source of text:
No. 4979, pp. 629, 630, unit 37, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.Circular letter sent, with the name of the appropriate department inserted, to 9 Ministers and 16 heads of subsidiary departments within the Chief Secretary’s Department
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP4301

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Epes Sargent
Date:
9 July 1874
Source of text:
  • Boston Public Library: MSS. Acc. 434
  • Boston Public Library: MSS. Acc. 434
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-74-07-10b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Albert Le Souef
Date:
10 July 1874
Source of text:
A345 Royal Park Zoological Society letter & minute book, p.57, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9542

From:
Edward Emanuel Klein
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 77–8
Summary:

Reports results [partly excised] of examination of fibro-cartilage subjected to artificial gastric juice and to Drosera secretion. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 104–5.]

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DCP-LETT-9543

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 52: D1–2, 10–14
Summary:

Sets out some of his ideas on the effects of disuse on an organ. Disuse as a cause of reduction.

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WCP3430

From:
Henry Seymour Chase
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 July 1874
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 101
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9545

From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 79–80
Summary:

On hearing of CD’s work with Drosera, tells of his experiment showing extreme sensitivity of the iris of a dog’s eye to atropine. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 173.]

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DCP-LETT-9544

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

Thanks for Drosophyllum. No longer needs Utricularia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Ralfs
Date:
13 July [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.443)
Summary:

Discusses specimens of Utricularia.

Mentions JR’s work on desmids [The British Desmidieae [Desmidiae!?] (1848)].

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FVM-74-07-14a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14 July 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 148
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-07-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
14 July 1874
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9523

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 15 July 1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 38–9)
Summary:

Suggests experiments to try [with Nepenthes]. Asks JDH to test whether cabbage seeds and peas exposed to the ferment germinate.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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