From Francis Galton to Francis Darwin 7 April 1871
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A25–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7662 |
DCP-LETT-7839A
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7839A |
From Asa Gray to Francis Darwin 17 December 1880
Summary
Roots arising from stems and shoots of brambles.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12921 |
From William Martindale to Francis Darwin 24 May 1878
Summary
WM, a pharmaceutical chemist, sends Stoddard’s pure sea-salts.
Bolton, the chemist FD mentioned, is dead and his books were probably destroyed. His successor, Linford, went bankrupt.
Author: | William Martindale |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11527 |
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 |
From William Graham to Francis Darwin [after 20 April 1882]
Summary
Sends enclosed letters and hopes they are not too late. Letter of 8 July 1881 important because it contains clear statement of CD’s attitude to religious questions.
Author: | William Graham |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 20 Apr 1882] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 483 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13769G |
From Anton Stecker to Francis Darwin 12 March 1878
Summary
Will publish Origin first
and then Descent.
AS is looking for a job in a zoological museum or accompanying an expedition.
Author: | Anton Stecker |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 250 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11418 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Stecker, Anton Darwin, Francis …
- … book-post. I am dear Sir | very Truly yours | D r : Ant. Stecker. To Francis Darwin, Esqu: …
- … From Anton Stecker to Francis Darwin 12 March 1878 …
- … DAR 177: 250 Anton Stecker Jungbunzlau 12 Mar 1878 Francis Darwin …
- … The letter from Francis Darwin has not been found; see, however, the letter from Anton …
From Henry Jackson to Francis Darwin 18 November 1877
Summary
Nomenclature for kinds of heliotropism.
Author: | Henry Jackson |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 18 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.11: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11239 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Jackson, Henry Darwin, Francis …
- … From Henry Jackson to Francis Darwin 18 November 1877 …
- … DAR 209.11: 260 Henry Jackson Cambridge 18 Nov 1877 Francis Darwin …
- … CD and Francis Darwin had evidently consulted Jackson, a classical scholar at Cambridge …
- … in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
From J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin 6 June 1878
Summary
Suggests sensitive plants that close at night would be protected from nocturnal-feeding snails. JIR’s brother in India says snails occur there in abundance.
Author: | John Innes Rogers |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11545 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Rogers, J. I. Darwin, Francis …
- … From J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin 6 June 1878 …
- … DAR 176: 198 John Innes Rogers London, Cannon St, 119 6 June 1878 Francis Darwin …
- … No letter from Francis Darwin to Rogers on this subject has been found, but for Rogers’s …
- … in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
- … J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin, 25 March 1878 . For CD’s and Francis’s experiments on the …
To Francis Darwin 22–3 May 1881
Summary
Is sending chapter [of Earthworms] for FD to look over.
Comments on FD’s work on movements of mould.
Is glad to hear about Julius von Sachs and the circumnutation theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 22–3 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To Francis Darwin 22–3 May 1881 …
- … Bibliography Darwin, Francis. 1880a. On the power possessed by leaves of placing …
- … Society ( Botany ) 18 (1881): 420–55. Darwin, Francis. 1880c. The theory of the growth of …
- … Society ( Botany ) 18 (1881): 406–19. Darwin, Francis. 1881b. Ueber Circumnutation bei …
- … by Wortmann and De Bary. Dubba was Bernard Darwin , Francis’s …
- … DAR 211: 75 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22–3 May 1881 Francis Darwin …
- … Goltz and Oskar Schmidt at the meeting. See letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] . …
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Francis …
- … under a bower. ) )See letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] and nn. 3 and 4. Francis …
- … See letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] ; Francis had described the long hours kept …
- … son; Leonard Darwin was Francis’s brother. The Darwins went on holiday to Patterdale in …
- … in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
- … Darwin 1881b appeared in Botanische Zeitung , 29 July 1881. Elfving 1881 was published in Botaniska Notiser , September 1881. See letter from Francis Darwin, …
- … article by Francis, ‘The theory of the growth of cuttings’ ( F. Darwin 1880b ), published …
- … Francis’s article, ‘On the power possessed by leaves of placing themselves at right angles to the direction of incident light’ ( F. Darwin …
From James Niven to Francis Darwin 12 March 1882
Summary
Sends [for CD’s possible use] his observations on spines of fir used by worms to block burrows.
Author: | James Niven |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 101–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13726 |
From J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin 29 March 1878
Summary
JIR’s "theory" of sensitive plants published in an anonymous letter he sent to the Field 2½ years ago. Mechanisms for protection against insects in sensitive plants.
Author: | John Innes Rogers |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11453 |
From John Lubbock to Francis Darwin 22 February 1882
Summary
Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.
Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13697F |
From J. H. Gilbert to Francis Darwin 10 June 1876
Summary
On burnt soils.
Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1876 |
Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10535G |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Gilbert, J. H. Darwin, Francis …
- … From J. H. Gilbert to Francis Darwin 10 June 1876 …
- … Research (GIL13) Joseph Henry Gilbert Harpenden, St Albans 10 June 1876 Francis Darwin …
- … how far it would interest your father To Francis Darwin Esq re | Down, Beckenham, Kent …
- … See letter from Francis Darwin to J. H. Gilbert, 8 June 1876 . CD was interested in …
- … Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. Edited by Francis Darwin. 3 vols. …
- … Darwin Archive–CUL. For an article by Voelcker on the effects of burning soils, see Voelcker [1875] , ‘On paring and burning’. There is an undated letter at Rothamsted Research (archives of the Lawes Agricultural Trust, Rothamsted, Harpenden) from Francis Darwin …
From O. A. Ainslie to Francis Darwin 28 November [1880]
Summary
Thanks for information about the property in question [Tromer Lodge, see 12842]. His father, Robert Ainslie, had protested a settlement made in an earlier transaction.
Author: | Oliver Alexander Ainslie |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 28 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 11c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12872A |
From J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin 2 July 1878
Author: | John Innes Rogers |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11585 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Rogers, J. I. Darwin, Francis …
- … From J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin 2 July 1878 …
- … DAR 176: 199 John Innes Rogers London, Cannon St, 119 2 July 1878 Francis Darwin …
- … depredations ( letter from J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin, 25 March 1878 ). Plants of the …
- … month ( F. Darwin 1878c ; see letter from J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin, 25 March 1878 …
From A. H. Garrod to Francis Darwin 30 June [1872]
Summary
Sends an account of an attempt to take a sphygmograph tracing of a woman during fright
and some references that might apply to CD’s work on pulse rates during rage and fright.
Author: | Alfred Henry Garrod |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 30 June [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8399 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Garrod, A. H. Darwin, Francis …
- … From A. H. Garrod to Francis Darwin 30 June [1872] …
- … DAR 165: 10 Alfred Henry Garrod London, Harley St, 11 30 June [1872] Francis Darwin …
- … Bibliography Darwin, Francis. 1874. Contributions to the anatomy of the sympathetic …
- … 204–5). See also second letter from Francis Darwin, [before 30 June 1872] and n. 3. See …
- … Francis was studying medicine at St George’s Hospital, London; he later published the results of animal experiments carried out at the Brown Institution ( ODNB , F. Darwin …
DCP-LETT-2055
Author: | Edmund Langton |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 245 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2055 |
From Ernst Krause to Francis Darwin 26 October 1879
Summary
Problem with Charles Reinwald could be solved if CD would ask that French edition [of Erasmus Darwin] follow English. EK willing to co-operate with Reinwald.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 26 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B44–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12271 |
From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin [before 30 May 1872]
Summary
Sends drawings of dogs in different attitudes, drawn by his friend A. May. FD should not trouble CD unless he thinks the drawings will please him. [See Expression, pp. 54–5.]
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 May 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: A6–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8305 |
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