From Francis Darwin [after 2 October 1876]
Summary
Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 2 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10629F |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [after 2 October 1876] …
- … DAR 274.1: 40 Francis Darwin Pantlludw [after 2 Oct 1876] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … in relation to monkeys’; see letter to Francis Darwin, 2 October [1876] . The paper on …
- … II)). Julius von Wiesner (see letter to Francis Darwin, 2 October [1876] and n. 7). …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 2 October [1876] . Francis sent …
- … and self fertilisation (see letter to Francis Darwin, 2 October [1876] ). CD had suggested …
- … articles by Johann von Fischer (see letter to Francis Darwin, 2 October [1876] and n. 4). …
- … on the teasel, see the letter from Francis Darwin, [1 June 1876] and n. 2. CD discussed …
From Francis Darwin [29 May 1876]
Summary
The Salvia has arrived.
Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.
Cannot do any teazel work.
Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515I |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [29 May 1876] …
- … DAR 274.1: 58 Francis Darwin Down [29 May 1876] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … by the relationship between this letter, the letter from Francis Darwin, 27 May 1876 , …
- … and the letter to Francis Darwin, 30 [May 1876] ; see n. 2, below. When Francis wrote …
- … had not yet arrived (see letter from Francis Darwin, 27 May 1876 and n. 1). In May 1876, …
- … to look for orchids (see letter from Francis Darwin, 27 May 1876 ). CD referred to the fly …
- … his observations to CD (see letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] ). His research was …
- … in F. Darwin 1877b . In F. Darwin 1876b , p. 311, Francis emphasised that the process of …
- … Francis had published a paper on the proboscis of Ophideres fullonica in October 1875 ( F. Darwin …
- … 1876b , p. 314; see also F. Darwin 1877b , p. 266). Francis was investigating the …
- … Francis noted that in the early stages of the process of aggregation the aggregated masses were extremely motile but in a strongly aggregated condition the masses become motionless ( F. Darwin …
From Francis Darwin 2 May 1876
Summary
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10492F |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin 2 May 1876 …
- … DAR 274.1: 23 Francis Darwin 2 May 1876 Down Charles Robert Darwin …
- … had praised Francis’s recent publications (see letter to Francis Darwin, [1 May 1876] ). …
- … of the arrival of CD’s typewriter (see letter from Francis Darwin, [1 May 1876] and n. 4). …
- … of soil to Edward Frankland (see letter from Francis Darwin, [1 May 1876] and n. 2). …
- … Jemmy was Horace Darwin’s nickname; Francis possibly refers to a letter from Horace …
- … on the same day. Francis and his wife, Amy Darwin , had been practising typing on a dummy …
- … Darwin a typewritten letter from London (DAR 258: 860), and he might have written to CD or Francis …
- … Francis’s brother-in-law. Fritz ran away around 23 April 1876 ( letter from Emma Darwin to …
From Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10488F |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [1 May 1876] …
- … DAR 274.1: 24 Francis Darwin [1 May 1876] Down Charles Robert Darwin …
- … account books (Down House MS)). Amy Darwin , Francis’s wife, had presumably made mock …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, [30 April 1876] . Edward Frankland …
- … analyse two types of soil that CD and Francis Darwin were using in experiments on cross- …
- … 16 February 1876 , and letter to Francis Darwin, [30 April 1876] . In order to rid the …
- … Francis probably saw Henrietta Emma Litchfield when he was in London to purchase the typewriter ( letter from Horace Darwin …
- … Francis’s paper ‘On the glandular bodies on Acacia sphærocephala and Cecropia peltata serving as food for ants’ ( F. Darwin …
From Francis Darwin [after 8 October 1876]
Summary
Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10635F |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [after 8 October 1876] …
- … DAR 274.1: 36 Francis Darwin Pantlludw, Machynlleth [after 8 Oct 1876] Charles Robert …
- … s ‘dear second mother’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 8 October [1876] ). CD stayed at …
- … 2d ed. were expected soon (see letter to Francis Darwin, 8 October [1876] and n. 5). …
- … this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 8 October [1876] . CD had recommended two …
- … Popular Science Review (see letter to Francis Darwin, 8 October [1876] and nn. 1 and 3). …
- … of D. fullonum ; see letter from Francis Darwin, [1 June 1876] and n. 2). Absorption, …
From Francis Darwin [1 June 1876]
Summary
Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515H |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [1 June 1876] …
- … DAR 274.1: 4 Francis Darwin Down [1 June 1876] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 1876 ( Sharpey-Schafer 1927 , p. 15). See also letter from Francis Darwin, 27 May 1876 . …
- … this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, [2 June 1876] . Francis had discovered …
- … now D. fullonum ; see letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] ). In his letter of 30 [ …
- … by some of the leaves ( see F. Darwin 1877b ). Francis Maitland Balfour . The inaugural …
From Francis Darwin [2 June 1876]
Summary
Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10526F |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [2 June 1876] …
- … DAR 274.1: 39 Francis Darwin [Down] [2 June 1876] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … feather grass). See also letter from Francis Darwin, 27 May 1876 . The musk orchid is …
- … sylvestris , now D. fullonum ; see letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] , and F. …
- … see n. 5, below), and by the fact that Francis joined the Darwins at Hopedene in Surrey …
- … Darwin 1877b ). Francis’s paper on aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia ( …
- … on 3 June ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis had discovered protoplasmic filaments …
- … at Hopedene on 3 June ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis’s paper ‘On the glandular …
- … Darwin 1876b , p. 312; for his use of Strasburger’s method, see ibid . , p. 317. Francis …
From Francis Darwin [31 May 1876]
Summary
Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [31 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10517F |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [31 May 1876] …
- … DAR 274.1: 1 Francis Darwin [31 May 1876] Down Charles Robert Darwin …
- … plant he thought might be insectivorous (see letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] ). …
- … Darwin at Hopedene (see letter from Francis Darwin, 27 May 1876 and n. 5). The weather on …
- … s diary (DAR 242)). Francis, possibly accompanied by Amy Darwin , came to Hopedene on 3 …
- … Francis presented at the Linnean Society on 1 June 1876 on the glandular bodies on Acacia sphaerocephala and Cecropia peltata serving as food for ants ( F. Darwin …
- … Francis was investigating the process of aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (the common or round-leaved sundew) in order to test whether the aggregated matter was protoplasm or not ( F. Darwin …
From Hermann Müller to Francis Darwin 16 February 1876
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller’s view that many of the pointed appendages on the tip of the maxilla of Vanessa atalanta are organs of feeling or taste.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 68: 159–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10397 |
To Francis Darwin 30 [May 1876]
Summary
Discusses FD’s observations on the protrusion of protoplasmic masses by cells of the teasel. Suggests analogy with amoeba. "I would work at this subject if I were you, to the point of death."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 [May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10517 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Francis …
- … To Francis Darwin 30 [May 1876] …
- … DAR 271.3: 14 Charles Robert Darwin Hopedene 30 [May 1876] Francis Darwin …
- … May 1876, p. 689. See letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] and n. 4. Drosera is the …
- … this letter and the letters from Francis Darwin , [28 May 1876] and [29 May 1876] . CD …
- … CD’s advice was in response to Francis Darwin’s complaint about aggregated protoplasm …
- … forming motionless masses (see letter from Francis Darwin, [29 May 1876] ). CD refers to a …
- … a synonym of D. fullonum ). See letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] and n. …
- … 3. See letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] and n. 3. An amoeba was considered to be …
- … paper, Francis described the filaments as having a ‘gelatinous consistence’ ( F. Darwin …
To Francis Darwin 25 September [1876]
Summary
FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10617 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Francis …
- … To Francis Darwin 25 September [1876] …
- … DAR 211: 12 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Sept [1876] Francis Darwin …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] . Orchids 2d ed. …
- … 1 February 1877, p. 93). See letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] and n. 1. The …
To Francis Darwin [2 June 1876]
Summary
Looks to FD’s "grand discovery" as almost certain. Suggests observations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [2 June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10526 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Francis …
- … To Francis Darwin [2 June 1876] …
- … DAR 271.3: 16 Charles Robert Darwin Hopedene [2 June 1876] Francis Darwin …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Francis Darwin, [1 June 1876] . …
- … brought to him. See letter from Francis Darwin, [1 June 1876] . Francis had discovered …
- … now D. fullonum ; see letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] , and F. Darwin 1877b ). …
- … Francis joined the Darwins at Hopedene in Surrey on 3 June 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
From Francis Darwin 27 May 1876
Summary
Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515G |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin 27 May 1876 …
- … DAR 274.1: 25 Francis Darwin Down 27 May 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … nineteen men of science, including Francis Darwin , to discuss how best to respond to the …
- … by Wednesday 31 May (see letter from Francis Darwin, [31 May 1876] ). Julius Wiesner had …
- … Darwin . In February 1876, CD had been lent a bull-horn acacia ( Acacia cornigera ) from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 February 1876); Francis …
To Francis Darwin [12 October 1876]
Summary
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10641 |
To Francis Darwin [1 June 1876]
Summary
Comments on FD’s discovery – "if it so proves". It will be important to see whether the protoplasm oozes through the cell-walls [of Dipsacus] or whether it can be withdrawn.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [1 June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10525 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Francis …
- … To Francis Darwin [1 June 1876] …
- … DAR 271.3: 15 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [1 June 1876] Francis Darwin …
- … between this letter and the letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] . The Thursday after …
- … now D. fullonum ; see letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] ). He suggested that the …
To Francis Darwin [11 October 1876]
Summary
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10638 |
From Francis Darwin [28 May 1876]
Summary
Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 37–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515J |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [28 May 1876] …
- … DAR 274.1: 37–8 Francis Darwin [28 May 1876] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … this letter and the letter from Francis Darwin, [31 May 1876] , which suggests that …
- … Francis argued that the secretion of resinous matter occurred while the resin still possessed some vitality, and not by means of blisters as Hanstein had suggested (see n. 2, above) but through the use of filaments ( F. Darwin …
To Francis Darwin 2 October [1876]
Summary
Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].
Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10629 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Francis …
- … To Francis Darwin 2 October [1876] …
- … DAR 211: 15 Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Oct [1876] Francis Darwin …
- … and self fertilisation (see letter to Francis Darwin, 27 [September 1876] and n. 2). The …
- … monkeys ( Fischer 1876a ; letter to Francis Darwin, 20 September [1876] ). The paper on …
- … a synonym of D. fullonum ), see the letter from Francis Darwin, [1 June 1876] and n. 2. …
- … in May (see letter from Francis Darwin, 27 May 1876 ). The book has not been identified, …
- … results were published in F. Darwin 1877b . CD had sent Francis a book by Julius Wiesner …
- … Darwin Library–CUL. The ferret (now Mustela putorius furo ) is described in Bechstein 1801–9 , 1: 791–97; and Pennant 1793 , 2: 40. CD had suggested that Francis …
- … Darwin . CD discussed Fischer 1876a in an article in Nature , 2 November 1876, pp. 18–19, ‘Sexual selection in relation to monkeys’. On Francis’ …
To Francis Darwin 20 September [1876]
Summary
Suggests German works worth translating.
Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10611 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Francis …
- … To Francis Darwin 20 September [1876] …
- … DAR 211: 11 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Sept [1876] Francis Darwin …
- … Darwin 1877a , 1877b). See letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] and n. 1. CD was …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] . CD’s heavily …
- … Ruck was Amy’s brother. Francis had told Emma Darwin , ‘the love & care of Mrs Ruck & Atty …
- … of Popular Science Review . Francis’s wife, Amy Darwin , had died a few days after the …
- … see letter to W. E. Darwin, 11 September [1876] ). Francis’s paper ‘On the protrusion of …
To Francis Darwin [28 September 1876]
Summary
Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.
Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10623 |
Document type
| letter | (129) |
Author
| Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (3) |
| Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (2) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Caspary, Robert | (1) |
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (65) |
| Darwin, Francis | (14) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Frankland, Edward | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (2) |
| Gilbert, J. H. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Haast, Julius von | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| John Murray | (2) |
| Medveczky, Frigyes | (1) |
| Moore, Thomas (b) | (1) |
| Moseley, H. N. | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (2) |
| O’Shaughnessy, Charles | (1) |
| Patterson, W. H. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Schiff, Moritz | (1) |
| Shaw, Robert | (2) |
| Spruce, Richard | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Tylor, E. B. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (58) |
| Darwin, Francis | (18) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (6) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (123) |
| Darwin, Francis | (32) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (7) |
