To Francis Darwin 22 [October 1881]
Summary
Thinks FD should review Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. CD comforted that Wiesner’s experiments support their findings but finds it laughable how differently he has interpreted them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 22 [Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13422 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 26, letter to Francis Darwin, 17 July [1878] ). See Wiesner 1881 , p. …
- … Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Wiesner, Julius. 1878–80. Die …
- … Darwin, [21 October 1881] and n. 3. Francis was thinking of reviewing Wiesner 1881 . The other work by Julius Wiesner was ‘Die heliotropischen Erscheinungen im Pflanzenreiche’ (Heliotropic phenomena in the plant world; Wiesner 1878– …
To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881
Summary
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 and 17 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13159 |
To Francis Darwin 8 July 1881
Summary
Comments on the response to Movement in plants, which seems to have been successful.
Is going over revises of Earthworms.
Is investigating further his notion that leaves align themselves in the rain so as to shoot off drops of water.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 8 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13237 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Darwin, [ c . 8 July 1881? ] . Wilhelm Pfeffer , Pflanzenphysiologie. Ein Handbuch des Stoffwechsels und Kraftwechsels in der Pflanze (Plant physiology: a handbook of metabolism and energy exchange in plants; Pfeffer 1881 ). There are two papers by Cornu in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL: one on the absorption of coloured matter by roots ( Cornu and Mer 1878 ), …
To Francis Darwin 30 May [1881]
Summary
CD looks forward with dread to future as he does not have the strength to begin any new subject requiring much work.
Plans to look again at the absorption by roots and root-hairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13184 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Darwin, 20 May 1881 . The Darwins began their journey to the Lake District on 2 June 1881; they stayed at Patterdale until 4 July (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD had almost finished correcting proof-sheets of Earthworms . CD evidently had read ‘Recherches sur l’absorption des matières colorantes par les racines’ (Research on the absorption of colourants by roots; Cornu and Mer 1878 ). …
