From Francis Darwin [1873]
New University Club, | St. James’s Street. S.W.
Dear Father
Klein says the water ought to be changed every day1 I should think you might draw if off with a syphon, which Jim could rig up with glass tubing & indiarubber ditto— I found I could pour off a good deal of water by stretching a bit of gauze over the lip of the basin.
I left a bit I used on the fern heap in Deadman’s corner; but I should think the syphon wd be best— Please tell G the Revalenta shop is shut today.2 Klein says his discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.3 I don’t know why he said it was good for you.
Yr affec | Frank Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hassall, Arthur Hill. 1855. Food and its adulterations: comprising the reports of the Analytical Sanitary Commission of ‘The Lancet’ for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8713F
- From
- Francis Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London
- Source of text
- DAR 274.1: 11
- Physical description
- ALS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8713F,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8713F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
