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– …
From Francis Darwin [before 4 June 1881]
Summary
Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13192F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … à Paris du 16 au 24 août 1878. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. Darwin, Francis. 1881b. Ueber …
- … Francis Darwin, 30 May [1881] and n. 4. Eosine and fuchsine were colouring agents mentioned in Cornu and Mer 1878 . …
- … 1878. Julius Wortmann , Ernst Stahl , and De Bary were commenting on Philippe van Tieghem ’s Traité de botanique (Treatise on botany; Tieghem 1884 ), the second part of which had recently appeared (see letter to Francis Darwin, …
From Francis Darwin 23 [May 1881]
Summary
Would like some of his notes. Has been looking at roots of Linum, cucurbits, larch, and orchids. Is content that mother should teach Bernard whatever religion she likes.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 [May 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170F |
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 |
From Francis Darwin 16 July 1881
Summary
Reports de Bary’s opinion of Max Cornu. Accounts of various botanical experiments and observations.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13245F |
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 ). …
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