From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Sept 1875 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 32
Summary:
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
Contributor:
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From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 35
Summary:
Tells CD of his many experiments on interarching vines, potato tubers, exudation of carbon dioxide from roots,
and the synchrony of the pulse and the step while walking.
Would like to meet CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Andrew John Stuart, 6th Earl Castlestewart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 268
Summary:
Has observed a dun pony with black stripes.
Intends breeding native fowls and will happily furnish CD with any information he can.
Discusses the domestication of animals.
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 469
Summary:
Since the new edition of Variation will be stereotyped, Murray’s will always have means to provide plates if they are wanted in America.
Explains their way of sending proofs for authors who want wide margins for corrections.
Thinks it better to keep Climbing plants for the annual trade sale.
Contributor:
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From:
Ferdinand Jamison Morphy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 243
Summary:
Reports a hybrid ram and sow, the cuino of Mexico, which is very common and fertile.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 18
Summary:
RLT speculates on the "moral nature" of parental protection shown by humans and traces it back to its first occurrence in the animal world.
Contributor:
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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 154
Summary:
Thanks for Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874], which confirms some of his observations,
and for Insectivorous plants, which he praises.
Suggests that a book integrating knowledge of plant–animal interactions be written by a Darwinist.
Defines biology as the science of external interactions.
German reception is far more positive than Italian.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1875
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 318; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (PrP 08-0011)
Summary:
Has read CD’s book on Drosera [Insectivorous plants] and found that it presents new material and is very interesting.
Has discovered that the parasites he thought he had found in Melipona nests are in fact true females. It is remarkable that they differ so greatly from the sterile females and males of their species.
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From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 167
Summary:
Thanks CD for telling her "such exact truth". She saw Thomas Carlyle at Keston – the country air has done him good – "he is half sorry to have been so unsociable on his first arrival".
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Warner Clark
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 155
Summary:
Examples of pupillary dilation.
Contributor:
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From:
Woodward Emery
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 163: 18
Summary:
Informs CD of Chauncey Wright’s death.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert David Fitzgerald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 130
Summary:
On fertilisation in certain orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 194
Summary:
Writing article for a German newspaper on CD’s life. Requests autobiographical information.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A80–1
Summary:
Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Eliot Norton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
Norton and Howe eds. 1913, 2: 57–9
Summary:
Reports the death of Chauncey Wright: "a great blow … to the interests of sound thought and scientific inquiry throughout the country".
Contributor:
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From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23–4 Sept 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C63–4
Summary:
Asks whether CD has observed that bees limit their visits to a single kind of flower on each journey from the hive, as Aristotle has said they do. What advantage would such a limitation be to the insects?
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A82
Summary:
Sends a lecture CD wished to see
and corrects himself about the twins.
Contributor:
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From:
Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 143
Summary:
Sends CD the 2d part of his travels into the Tien-shan mountains [Erforschung des Thian-Schan Gebirgs-Systems (1875)].
Has written a paper on the ranges and systematics of wild sheep and on modifications probably resulting from competition with domestic sheep, which he wishes to translate into English and would like to see appended to Variation.
Discusses sexual selection in thrushes; it apparently modifies one species into another.
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From:
Oswald Heer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 132
Summary:
Comments on Insectivorous plants.
Describes his own work on fossil flora of Eastern Siberia.
Discusses genus Ginkgo.
Contributor:
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 208
Summary:
Reports on Schrankia aculeata in which pinna and pinnule are sensitive, but, unlike Mimosa pudica, rachis does not move.
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