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DCP-LETT-10154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
10 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

CD gives a few instances of various animals (starfish, earwigs, spiders) that take charge of their young.

Contributor:
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FL-0986

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
11 and 13 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 3.1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10155

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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DCP-LETT-10155A

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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DCP-LETT-10156

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 47
Summary:

Sends comments and suggestions for Huth’s experiment on crossbreeding rabbits.

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FL-0987

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
14–17 September [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 3.2
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1463

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
14 September 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1646
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10157

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".

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FL-1186

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[15 September 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 305
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10158

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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DCP-LETT-10158F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Date:
16 Sept [1875-81]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 148)
Summary:

Requesting two books, Lafitau 1724 and Tanner 1830.

Contributor:
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FL-1042

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
17 September [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10160

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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DCP-LETT-10159

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Newington
Date:
17 Sept 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.475)
Summary:

Thanks SN for his explanation of vines.

Discusses SN’s observation on roots secreting carbonic acid.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13835

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
18 Sept [1875-9]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 277
Summary:

Working on plant physiology; has not strength to discuss difficult subject with anyone.

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FL-0988

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
19 and 20 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 3.3, 3.4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10161

From:
Robert David Fitzgerald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 130
Summary:

On fertilisation in certain orchids.

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DCP-LETT-10162

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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DCP-LETT-10163

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.

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DCP-LETT-10164

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/16)
Summary:

Agrees to write to William Ogle [about twins with crooked fingers].

Describes growth of sweetpeas for experiment.

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