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DCP-LETT-9602

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 214–18
Summary:

Describes his work on Nepenthes.

Cephalotus is a beast.

His address is a history of Dionaea, Sarracenia, and Drosera.

Thiselton-Dyer has helped enormously except with the observations; but his health is so poor that JDH thinks he is "evidently cut out for a Literate not a working botanist".

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WCP2306

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18? August 1874
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 281-282
Summary:

No summary available.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-74-08-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
19 August 1874
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9711

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[20? Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 38
Summary:

Likes GHD’s article ["Professor Whitney on the origin of language", Contemp. Rev. (1874): 894]. "You have defended me nobly."

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DCP-LETT-9604

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 332–3
Summary:

It is splendid how Nepenthes is behaving. Drosera and Dionaea are insignificant by comparison.

Takes rather a malicious pleasure in JDH’s failure with Cephalotus as a match to his with Utricularia.

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DCP-LETT-9605

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-25); DAR 147: 415 (copy)
Summary:

Reports difficulties in experiments on digestion of fibro-cartilage. Asks about JSBS’s experiments with artificial digestive fluids.

JSBS must read Hooker’s address at Belfast [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 103–16] to see what a magnificent digester Nepenthes is.

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FL-1272

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
21 August [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2336
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9606

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 81–2
Summary:

Sends specimens of Pinguicula with insects adhering. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 369.]

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FL-1031

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
23 August [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.21
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0752

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[26 August 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 113
Summary:

No summary available.

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FVM-74-08-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
26 August 1874
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9607

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Nicholson
Date:
26 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks EN for his book [Indian snakes, 2d ed. (1874)]. CD is pleased that it calls attention to gradation in the character of snake poison.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9608

From:
Alexander V. W Bikkers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 184
Summary:

Reports on a crossbreed between a duck and a fowl, having duck’s beak, partly webbed feet, and fowl’s feathers.

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DCP-LETT-9601

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel T. Gardner
Date:
[c. 27 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
New York Times , 15 September 1874
Summary:

States his indebtedness to and admiration for Humboldt and his work.

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WCP6733

From:
John Hampden
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 August 1874
Source of text:
Anon. (1875). The libel case. Summary punishment. The Chelmsford Chronicle : 5752 : 7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9609

From:
James Alexander Gammie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 6
Summary:

Sends his observations on the method of fertilisation of Hedychium coronarium by Sphinx and other hawk-moths.

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DCP-LETT-9610

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 219–20
Summary:

Lady Dorothy Nevill is CD’s best chance for Dionaea.

Reports on Belfast meeting of BAAS. Lubbock’s lecture went off admirably. Huxley’s was the magnum opus.

Encloses letter from Mrs Barber on protective coloration of animals.

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DCP-LETT-9611

From:
Henryk Stecki
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 252
Summary:

Reports observations on a chicken with a human face.

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FL-1366

From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
30 Aug and 21 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 258: 801
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9613

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/6/3 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 40)
Summary:

Thanks JDH for his "quite admirable" address [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874) pt 2: 102–16]. Suggests revisions.

CD thinks he is "now on right track about Utricularia" after wasting several weeks "in fruitless trials and observations".

Mrs Barber’s paper is very curious and ought to be published.

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