From Francis Darwin to T. W. Higginson [before 24 May 1878]
Summary
Regrets that the arrangement to visit Down must be for Friday.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| Date: | [before 24 May 1878] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 206) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11523F |
To B. J. Placzek 15 September 1878
Summary
Will be interested to read BP’s work on history [of evolution?].
A learned Jew in Poland [Napthali Lewy?] has published a volume showing that evolution is an ancient belief.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Baruch Jakob Placzek |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11694 |
To Francis Darwin [11 May 1878]
Summary
Julius von Sachs will "swear & curse" when he finds out he has missed sensitiveness of root apex. Has been putting his notes together and the case is conclusive. [Dated "Saturday 10th" by CD.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [11 May 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11504 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 as CD wrote. An article in Nature , 17 January 1878, pp. 222–3, titled ‘Insectivorous plants’, summarised the paper that Francis Darwin read before the Linnean Society on that day. The full paper, published in Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ), contained data on the weight of fed and starved plants of Drosera rotundifolia (common or round-leaved sundew; F. Darwin 1878a , pp. 26–30). …
To F. J. Cohn 3 January 1878
Summary
Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.
Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11310 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 30 years ago, that if ever the origin of any infectious disease could be proved, it would be the greatest triumph to science; & now I rejoice to have seen this triumph. With respect to the filaments of Dipsacus, I do not for a minute put my judgement on a par with yours or that of de Bary, but my son has lately made some observations which incline me very strongly to believe that the filaments consist of living matter of the nature of protoplasm Hearing from D r Sanderson that thymol has a fatal effect on low organisms, he tried solutions of 1 10 % & …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Addressee
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Higginson, T. W. | (1) |
| Placzek, B. J. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
| Higginson, T. W. | (1) |
| Placzek, B. J. | (1) |
