From Francis Darwin [after 8 October 1876]1
Pantlludw, | Machynlleth.
Dearest Father
Many thanks for the papers & your letter;2 I can work quite well all morning at the teasel work.3 I have been also reading & abstracting all the part in Sachs Physiologie Vég: about transpiration & circulation of water with a view to trying a machine for measuring root-absorbtion, devised by us & this gives me a good lot of thought4 I shall have a good bit more teasel microscoping to do when I get back. I see in Nature that in the Italian Journal of Bot a Dr Gibelli has described the leaves of Empetrum nigrum as making cavities like sarracenia & suggests they are insectivorous. Do you know Empetrum? (if that is the name, I am quoting without Nature)5 I ought to look at its glands as it may be teasel-plant
Mrs Ruck was very pleased at your kind way of sending yr love to her.6 Give my best love to dearest mother | Goodbye dear Father, I am very glad you like Wms house7 | Yr affec son | Frank Darwin
I shall be glad of Orchis proofs8
Footnotes
Bibliography
Airy, Hubert. 1876. On the leaf-arrangement of the crowberry (Empetrum nigrum). Abstract. Communicated by Charles Darwin. [Received 8 May 1876.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 25 (1876–7): 158–60.
Gibelli, Giuseppe. 1876. Di una singolare struttura delle foglie delle Empetracee. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano 8: 49–60.
Orchids 2d ed.: The various contrivances by which orchids are fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877.
Sachs, Julius. 1865. Handbuch der Experimental-Physiologie der Pflanzen: Untersuchungen über die allgemeinen Lebensbedingungen der Pflanzen und die Functionen ihrer Organe. Vol. 4 of Handbuch der physiologischen Botanik, edited by Anton de Bary, Thilo Irmisch, and Julius Sachs. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
Summary
Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10635F
- From
- Francis Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Pantlludw, Machynlleth
- Source of text
- DAR 274.1: 36
- Physical description
- ALS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10635F,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10635F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24