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DCP-LETT-9678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
13 Oct 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-20)
Summary:

Discusses the powers of digestion of Drosera and why certain substances produce less excitement in the plant than others.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9849

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Feb 1875
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-21)
Summary:

Has been experimenting with phosphates on Drosera and wonders whether animals digest a particular one.

Asks whether Huxley has approached him regarding the introduction of a vivisection act.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10070

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-22)
Summary:

Thanks for JSBS’s essays; wishes he had said something on Lister’s observations. Speculates on the fungoid nature of smallpox and why there is seldom re-infection.

Discusses digestion by Drosera, the action of its secretion being the same as that of gastric juice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10485

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-01)
Summary:

Suggests JSBS’s new machine for observing arterial action be used to test CD’s hypothesis that blushing is caused by thinking intensely about a part of the body and thus releasing the arteries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
26 May [1876]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-11)
Summary:

Caroline [Wedgwood] has been ill for the last 20 months.

James Paget to be consulted about William Darwin’s brain concussion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11358

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-74)
Summary:

CD and Frank Darwin hard at work on physiology of plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11598

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-75)
Summary:

Letter of condolence on reading Times report of death of WDF’s daughter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12050

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
13 May 1879
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-23)
Summary:

CD astonished at receiving the Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
29 Mar 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-12)
Summary:

Grieves with CWF at the approaching death of his father, W. D. Fox. Remembers how they breakfasted together every day at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12572

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
10 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-13)
Summary:

Condolences upon the death of CWF’s father, William Darwin Fox.

[Wrongly dated March by CD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12954

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
29 Dec 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-24)
Summary:

Requests JSBS sign certificate for [Francis Darwin’s] candidacy [for Royal Society].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13683

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Jane Fox; Frances Jane Hughes
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-15)
Summary:

Thanks for sympathy on death of Erasmus [Alvey Darwin].

Suggests rewording statement concerning source of CD’s views on evolution.

Recalls happy days at Penally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3061

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Snow Harris
Date:
21 December 1855
Source of text:
University of British Columbia MS VF-46
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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