From Francis Darwin 11 June 1877
Summary
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10994F |
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- … letter to Francis Darwin, [10 June 1877] ; there was evidently another letter to Francis …
- … pp. 100–1. See also letter from Francis Darwin, [before 21 May 1877] and n. 3, and F. …
- … Darwin 1877a ). See letter to G. J. Romanes, 27 May [1877] and n. 3. Henry Lettington was the gardener at Down House. Francis would soon undertake further experiments on the digestive powers of Drosera rotundifolia (common or round-leaved sundew; see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 July [1877] and n. 10). Francis’s letter …
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 |
From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin 24 September 1877
Summary
Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 199.5: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11152 |
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
To Francis Darwin 12 September [1878]
Summary
Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.
Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.
Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11690 |
From Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 7 June 1877
Summary
CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.
CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 7 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10989F |
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- … letters; however, Francis, CD, and Romanes may have discussed it when Romanes visited Down on 30 May 1877 (Emma Darwin’ …
- … letter to the editor of Nature published on 7 June 1877, pp. 100–1. Francis’s letter was dated 21 May and headed ‘ Nectar-secreting glands’. Dalechampia is a genus in the family Euphorbiaceae. The stinging nettle, Urtica dioica , is in the family Urticaciae. On ants and Cecropia peltata , see F. Darwin …
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 |
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 |
From Francis Darwin [before 21 May 1877]
Summary
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 21 May 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520F |
To Francis Darwin 2 July [1878]
Summary
Suggests FD call on Carl Semper.
Inquires about Porlieria: Do the leaves shut to check evaporation? Does it appear silver under water?
Explains how he thinks the pulvinus acts; wishes FD would investigate the point.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11586 |
To Francis Darwin 9 November [1881]
Summary
Comments on two letters received from W. F. P. Pfeffer [13425, 13464] who thinks Julius Wiesner’s view that light, etc. acts directly on plants is wrong.
Is frantic over the number of letters received about worms; feels the enthusiasm of the reception of Earthworms is laughable.
Is confounded by Euphorbia rootlets and has re-examined the effect of carbonate of ammonia.
Has thought of three good experiments to oppose Wiesner.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 70, DAR 211: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13476 |
From Francis Darwin [c. 25 February 1879]
Summary
Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 25 Feb 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11883F |
From Francis Darwin 29 May 1879
Summary
Fungus is an Aecidium. Porliera, Anthuriums and Aroids will hopefully sprout if weather gets hot. Sachs has changed his ideas about the cause of heliotropism. Describes men he is sharing a lab with.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12067F |
From Francis Darwin to W. M. Moorsom 29 October 1877
Summary
His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Warren Maude Moorsom |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 385b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11216A |
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- … letter containing the details about the elephant case. If the story is true it appears to my father to be far more probable that the fruit contains some alkaloid such as that in indian hemp. This would equally well agree with the natives making a drink from it for similar cases are known e.g. the intoxicating (not alcoholic) liquor brewed from agaricus muscarius by certain steppe tribes (Tartars I believe) Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Francis Darwin Oct 29. 1877. …
From Francis Darwin to T. F. Cheeseman 12 December 1877
Summary
Writes for CD, thanking TFC for his pamphlet on Selliera. CD was so interested that he ventured to forward it to Nature for publication.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Frederick Cheeseman |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS 58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11277 |
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- … 1877 Dear Sir, My father begs me to express to you his thanks for your kindness in sending your pamphlet on Selliera. He has been so much interested by your letter that he has ventured to forward it for publication to Nature. He hopes that in the impossibility of communicating with you on the subject, you will excuse the liberty he takes in doing so. Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Francis Darwin …
From Francis Darwin to G. N. de Stoppelaar 25 April 1877
Summary
Sends thanks for diploma on CD’s behalf.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10940F |
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- … 1877 dear sir , in my father’s absence from home, i beg leave to acknowledge the safe arrival of the diploma which you have been so good as to send to him . i trust that you wil have received the letter in which my father had the pleasure of expressing his thanks for the honour which you have conferred on him . i beg leave to remain, | dear sir, | yours faithfully | Francis Darwin …
From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin 25 November 1877
Summary
SB’s book [Life and habit (1878)] will be bound shortly. He will send two copies, one of which can be given to CD. To SB’s surprise it has turned out to be an attack on CD’s views and a defence of Lamarck; describes how he was brought to the opinions expressed in it.
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 393 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11254 |
To Francis Darwin 25 July [1878]
Summary
Is forwarding the writing machine to Carl Semper.
Is glad FD has taken up his old friends, the twiners.
Hopes to get heliotropic aerial roots from J. D. Hooker. Asks FD to find out whether any moulds or roots are apheliotropic. Is puzzled by heliotropism in subterranean roots.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 25 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11631 |
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- … letter from Francis Darwin, [21 July 1878] ). Kliment Arkady Timiryazev of Moscow, in his paper ‘Sur la décomposition de l’acide carbonique dans le spectre solaire, par les parties vertes des végétaux’ (On the decomposition of carbonic acid in the solar spectrum, by the green parts of plants; Timiriazeff 1877 , …
From Francis Darwin [28 October 1877?]
Summary
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302F |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 5 December 1877
Summary
Discusses planting onions for experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.527) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11270 |
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| Darwin, Francis | (13) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
| Cheeseman, T. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (2) |
| Cheeseman, T. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Moorsom, W. M. | (1) |
| Stoppelaar, G. N. de | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
