To Gaston de Saporta 24 December 1877
Summary
Such honours as proposal for election to Institut affect CD very little.
GdeS’s idea that dicotyledonous plants were not developed until sucking insects evolved is a splendid one. The suggestion that fertilisation of the surviving members of the most ancient dicotyledons should be studied is a good one. CD hopes GdeS will keep it in mind.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11287 |
From F. J. Cohn 31 December 1877
Summary
Sends details of H. H. R. Koch’s work on bacteria, including first photographs.
J. S. Burdon Sanderson’s and Koch’s collaboration on systemic fever.
Thinks movement of Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus filaments is an artifact.
| Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11298 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter to F. J. Cohn, 8 August 1877 and n. 3). Agaricus is a genus of mushrooms in the family Agaricaceae. ‘ 1 ’ and ‘ 2 ’, added later, are presumably a reference to the order of publication. Francis Darwin …
- … 1877, Cohn had repeated some of Francis Darwin’s experiments on the protrusion of protoplasmic filaments from glandular hairs in the cups formed by leaves of common teasel ( Dipsacus sylvestris , a synonym of D. fullonum ); CD had sent Cohn’s results, confirming many of Francis’s observations, to Nature (see letters …
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 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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 …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
Addressee
| Cheeseman, T. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Saporta, Gaston de | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Cheeseman, T. F. | (1) |
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
