From Anton Stecker 24 February 1879
Summary
Has not been able to complete Bohemian edition of Origin because of trip to Africa.
Is collecting zoological evidence for CD’s theory.
| Author: | Anton Stecker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 251 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11901 |
From E. A. Darwin 8 March [1879]
Summary
Has read Krause’s "Life of Erasmus Darwin" [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424]; thinks it very interesting to anyone interested in "Darwinismus" – everybody.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B2; DAR 105: B105, B110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11918 |
From Francis Darwin [before 31 July 1879]
Summary
Discusses Müller-Thurgau’s work on heliotropism. Will start on Thursday for Heidelberg and Strassburg.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 31 July 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12177F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin 1880 , p. 522), Francis referred to unpublished work of Alexander Wolkoff and the last (fourth) edition of Sachs’s Lehrbuch der Botanik (Textbook of botany; Sachs 1874 , pp. 804, 810). Hermann Müller-Thurgau , in his article ‘Ueber Heliotropismus’ ( Müller-Thurgau 1876 , …
- … Francis. 1880b. Über das Wachsthum negativ heliotropischer Wurzeln im Licht und im Finstern. Arbeiten des botanischen Instituts in Würzburg 2 (1878–82): 521–8. Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879. Müller-Thurgau, Hermann. 1876. …
- … 1876 , p. 66), Müller-Thurgau had noted that his research, conducted over two summers at Würzburg, was intended to show the relationship between the light source and bending of the stems, as Sachs had done in experiments on geotropism. Most of his references to Sachs relate to the latter’s research on geotropism ( Sachs 1873b , Sachs 1873–4 ). The first part of Julius Wiesner ’s monograph on heliotropic phenomena had appeared in 1878 ( Wiesner 1878–80 ). For Sachs’s negative view of Wiesner’s work, see the letter from Francis Darwin, …
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 |
To Hugo de Vries 6 September 1879
Summary
Perhaps movement from side to side in plants is caused by the contraction of one side, rather than the expansion of the other.
Sends seeds of Lychnis Githago: he observed the hypocotyledenous stem, not the root, contracting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
| Date: | 6 Sept 1879 |
| Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12219F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Darwin . Oscillatoria is a genus of blue-green algae with thread-like filaments. For more on De Vries’s theory of turgor, see the letters from Hugo de Vries, 7 August 1879 and 2 September 1879 . On contraction of the leaf-cells in Drosera (sundew) and Dionaea (Venus fly trap), see Insectivorous plants , pp. 256–9 and 317–18; see also Correspondence vol. 24, letter from Casimir de Candolle, 30 July 1876 …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Darwin, [4 February – 8 March 1879] and n. 4. The Jardin d’acclimatation (originally Jardin d’essai or experimental garden, now Jardin botanique du Hamma) was in the Hamma district (now Belouizdad) of Algiers. William Turner Thiselton-Dyer . In December 1878, Edward Emanuel Klein had followed other staff at the Brown Institution, London, in resigning his position. After the Cruelty to Animals Act was passed in 1876, …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Stecker, Anton | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Vries, Hugo de | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Stecker, Anton | (1) |
| Vries, Hugo de | (1) |
