133 Items
From Francis Darwin [4 May 1875]
Summary
Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 May 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9961G |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [4 May 1875] …
- … DAR 274.1: 34 Francis Darwin Machynlleth [4 May 1875] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … helping to correct (see letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875] and n. 2). Dorothy …
- … The first Tuesday after the letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875] , was 4 May. …
- … plants for CD (see letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875] and n. 2). Emma Darwin’ …
- … in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
- … Darwin, [1 May 1875] (DAR 219.1: 89)). ‘The rest of the Royal Family’ may refer to Francis, …
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 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [1 September 1875 or later] …
- … DAR 274.1: 32 Francis Darwin Down [1 Sept 1875 or later] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … coming down to Southampton Yrs affec | Francis Darwin We come by the train that gets to …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, [31 August 1875 or later] , which …
- … of Variation 2d ed. (see letter to Francis Darwin, [31 August 1875 or later] ). Michael …
- … Francis’s note was published in the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology in 1876 ( F. Darwin …
- … Francis published a paper on the proboscis of Ophideres fullonica (‘an orange-sucking moth’) in the October 1875 issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Society ( F. Darwin …
From Francis Darwin 1 and 2 May [1875]
Summary
Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird’s Six months in the Sandwich Islands.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 and 2 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9961F |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin 1 and 2 May [1875] …
- … DAR 274.1: 31 Francis Darwin Pantludw 1 May [1875] 2 May [1875] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of Insectivorous plants (see letter to Francis Darwin, 30 April [1875] ). CD had asked …
- … of Insectivorous plants (see letter to Francis Darwin, 30 April [1875] ). This does not …
- … their marriage in July 1874, Amy and Francis Darwin had moved into Down Lodge ( Post …
- … Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted …
- … counties 1874); the plants that Francis mentions to Emma Darwin may have been intended for …
- … Francis probably refers to the Ruck family (his in-laws, with whom he was staying in Wales). He may have mentioned their opinion of Isabella Lucy Bird’s work on Hawaii ( Bird 1875 ) because he knew that Emma Darwin …
From Francis Darwin [1875?]
Summary
Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1875?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9791F |
To Francis Darwin 30 April [1875]
Summary
Sends a chapter [of Insectivorous plants]. Never was there anything so dull, but later chapters will be better. Please correct an error on p. 86.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9958B |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Francis …
- … To Francis Darwin 30 April [1875] …
- … DAR 271.4: 9 Charles Robert Darwin 30 Apr [1875] Francis Darwin …
- … between this letter and the letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875] . Francis …
- … Insectivorous plants (see letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875] ). The correction …
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 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [after 2 December 1875] …
- … DAR 274.1: 33 Francis Darwin Machynlleth [after 2 Dec 1875] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … law, evidently had a slate quarry on his property. Amy Richenda Darwin was Francis’s wife. …
- … is established by the reference to Francis Darwin’s election as a fellow of the Linnean …
- … Society (see n. 2, below). Francis Darwin was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society on 2 …
- … themselves in the ground ( F. Darwin 1876c ). Francis was staying in Pantlludw, Wales, the …
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 [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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [before 8 December 1875] …
- … DAR 274.1: 29 Francis Darwin Pantlludw [before 8 Dec 1875] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … accessed 20 May 2014)). Amy Darwin was Francis’s wife; Lawrence Ruck was his father-in- …
- … Francis was staying with his in-laws, the Ruck family, in Pantlludw, Wales. He was probably waiting for Leonard Darwin’ …
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 |
From Francis Darwin to Lawson Tait 22 July [1875]
Summary
CD sends words that he is too busy to work on the Drosera RLT has sent. CD also regrets that the fluid on virgin pitchers of Nepenthes was not tested with white of egg. Until that is done, he doubts whether physiologists would admit the presence of the ferment.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 22 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10087 |
To Francis Darwin [c. February 1875?]
Summary
Begs FD’s pardon: his notes on Utricularia amethystina are on same page with those on U. nelumbifolia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. Feb 1875?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9219B |
To Francis Darwin [31 August 1875 or later]
Summary
Sends proofs of Variation [2d ed.] for FD to look over.
| 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 to Daniel Oliver [after 6 January 1875]
Summary
Asks DO to return enclosed post-card with locality of Genlisea aurea specimen that DO had sent.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [after 6 Jan 1875] |
| Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9803F |
To Francis Darwin [September 1875 or later?]
Summary
Asks FD to make out [Hermann] Hoffmann’s conclusions about the fertilisation of Phaseolus multiflorus [in Untersuchungen zur Bestimmung des Werthes von Species und Varietät (1869)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [Sept 1875 or later?] |
| Classmark: | CUL, Darwin Pamphlet Collection R112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9219A |
Matches: 4 hits
From Francis Galton 22 September 1875
Summary
Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A80–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10163 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Galton, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … 1889, pp. 79–82 and 225–6. Frank: Francis Darwin was CD’s secretary. Insectivorous plants …
- … DAR 105: A80–1 Francis Galton London, Rutland Gate, 42 22 Sept 1875 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Francis Galton. 3 vols. in 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Variation 2d ed. : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. …
- … Francis. 1876a. The history of twins, as a criterion of the relative powers of nature and nurture. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 5 (1875–6): 391–406. [Reprint of Galton 1875a. ] Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. …
From Francis Galton 14 April 1875
Summary
Is sending some seeds of sweetpeas, which George [Darwin] said CD would plant for him.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9928 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Galton, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 105: A78 Francis Galton London, Rutland Gate, 42 14 Apr 1875 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Darwin George told me that you w d . very kindly have some sweet peas planted for me, & save me the produce. I send them in a separate envelope with marked bags to put the produce in, and full instructions which I think your gardener will easily understand. I am most anxious to repair the disaster of last year by which I lost the produce of all my sweet peas at Kew. With very many thanks | Yours very faithfully | Francis …
From Francis Galton 26 November 1875
Summary
Thanks for the peas which arrived in "beautiful order".
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A90–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10278 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Galton, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 105: A90–1 Francis Galton London, Rutland Gate, 42 26 Nov 1875 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Darwin How can I thank you sufficiently for the trouble you have taken with the peas, which arrived last night in beautiful order. You must let me know when we next meet, if there is anything I owe you for payments of any kind connected with them. Will you in the mean time, give the enclosed 10 s . (I send an order made out in your name) to the gardener, from me? — & tell him that I am much obliged for his care. Ever yr s . | Francis …
From Francis Galton 5 November 1875
Summary
Sends a proof of his "Theory of heredity" from the Contemporary Review [27 (1875): 80–95; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 329–48]. Welcomes CD’s help and criticism.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10243 |
From Francis Galton 2 June 1875
Summary
Interested to hear about the peas.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10005 |
From Francis Galton to G. H. Darwin 22 December 1875
Summary
Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10317 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (58) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (26) |
| John Murray | (26) |
| Darwin, Francis | (10) |
| Galton, Francis | (10) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (70) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (12) |
| John Murray | (9) |
| Galton, Francis | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (128) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (38) |
| John Murray | (35) |
| Galton, Francis | (17) |
| Darwin, Francis | (14) |
