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 |
To J. V. Carus 17 July 1879
Summary
Gives an account of his publication plans for his and Ernst Krause’s Erasmus Darwin.
CD has never even dreamed of publishing his own autobiography.
Is now working, with Francis, on plant movements.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 17 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 172–173) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12163 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Darwin in LL 1: 26–107. CD began research for Movement in plants in the summer of 1877. Francis Darwin assisted him both at Down and working in the summers of 1878 and 1879 at the Botanical Institute, Würzburg, in the laboratory of Julius Sachs . CD and Francis disagreed with Sachs on many points about the nature of plant movement, notably regarding the location of root sensitivity (see, for example, letter …
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 Karl von Scherzer 26 December 1879
Summary
What a foolish idea seems to prevail in Germany on the connection between Socialism and Evolution through Natural Selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | LL 3: 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12370F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin ( LL 3: 237), as showing a hint of CD’s views on the connection being made in Germany between Darwinism and Socialism. Francis traced the connection to comments made by Rudolf Virchow in an address to the assembly of German naturalists and physicians in Munich in 1877 ( Virchow 1877 , p. 12). On the interrelationship of Darwinism and Socialism in late-nineteenth-century Germany, see Kelly 1981 , especially pp. 58–60, and Weikart 1999 . See also letter …
From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin 30 June 1879
Summary
Last night had tremendous thunderstorm. Will ask Goebel about proshelismus. Describes experiments on beans. Please send Bessy’s address. Has got to know nice Englishman named Purdy and his wife. Bathes nearly every night with the Finlander.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12128F |
Matches: 1 hit
From Francis Galton 12 November 1879
Summary
Praises CD’s biography of Erasmus Darwin;
asks CD to answer some queries he is circulating. Is particularly interested in "visualizing faculty" in CD and Dr Darwin.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12313 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Scherzer, Karl von | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
