From Francis Darwin [after 3 June 1875]
Summary
Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 3 June 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007F |
From Francis Darwin [1 September 1875 or later]
Summary
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Sept 1875 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10153F |
From Francis Darwin [15–18 September 1873]
Summary
FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15–18 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156F |
To Francis Darwin [31 August 1875 or later]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [31 Aug 1875 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10178 |
From Francis Darwin [before 8 December 1875]
Summary
Sends Linnean papers.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 8 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10287F |
From Francis Darwin [after 2 December 1875]
Summary
Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 2 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10287G |
From Francis Darwin [13 December 1875]
Summary
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362F |
To Francis Darwin [30 April 1876]
Summary
CD has just had an interview with Edward Frankland, who "almost laughs" at FD’s idea of getting potash and soda out of the soil by treating it with sulphuric acid. Asks FD to send him a soil sample to give to Frankland. Sends enclosures giving address and labels for soil samples.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [30 Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485B |
From Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10488F |
To Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Expresses his pride in FD, whose article ["On the structure of the snail’s heart", J. Anat. Physiol. 10 (1876): 506–10] was highly praised by G. H. Lewes.
Lewes has also been quoting FD’s letter in Nature [13 (1876): 384–5] on pycrotoxine in relation to the vivisection controversy.
Was introduced to James Sully, author of the article in Mind on Wilhelm Wundt ["Physiological psychology in Germany", 1 (1876): 20–43]
and Sensation and intuition (1874) [see 10320], by "Mrs Lewes" (George Eliot).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10489A |
From Francis Darwin 2 May 1876
Summary
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10492F |
From Francis Darwin 27 May 1876
Summary
Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515G |
From Francis Darwin [1 June 1876]
Summary
Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515H |
From Francis Darwin [29 May 1876]
Summary
The Salvia has arrived.
Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.
Cannot do any teazel work.
Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515I |
From Francis Darwin [28 May 1876]
Summary
Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 37–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515J |
To Francis Darwin 30 [May 1876]
Summary
Discusses FD’s observations on the protrusion of protoplasmic masses by cells of the teasel. Suggests analogy with amoeba. "I would work at this subject if I were you, to the point of death."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 30 [May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10517 |
From Francis Darwin [31 May 1876]
Summary
Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10517F |
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 [1 June 1876]
Summary
Comments on FD’s discovery – "if it so proves". It will be important to see whether the protoplasm oozes through the cell-walls [of Dipsacus] or whether it can be withdrawn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10525 |
To Francis Darwin [2 June 1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10526 |
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