From Francis Darwin [25 August 1873]
Summary
Regrets that "our brush theory" is wrong.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 142–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9016 |
Matches: 3 hits
To Francis Darwin 18 [August 1873]
Summary
Pollination and floral structure of Lathyrus. Asks where bees bite through the flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 18 [Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 9; DAR 271.4: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9015 |
To Francis Darwin [before 26 June 1873]
Summary
Sends FD £5 for the loan of his microscope.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [before 26 June 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13794 |
To Francis Darwin 15 August [1873]
Summary
Observations on bees’ biting holes in Lathyrus.
Suggests an experiment FD could carry out with Drosera.
CD is working on Mimosa, and "everything has turned out as perversely as possible".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9014 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 5 and 9 August 1873 (‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). See letter from Francis Darwin, 14 August [ …
- … L. grandiflorus . See also letter from Francis Darwin, 14 August [1873] and n. 3 Bombus …
- … before 15 April 1873] ). See letter from Francis Darwin, 14 August [1873] and n. 4. …
- … maritimus (see letter from Francis Darwin, [16 or 17 August 1873] ). In L. sylvestris , …
- … 1873 and n. 3. In his letter of 14 August [1873] , Francis mentioned the worm garden he and Amy Ruck had set up. Amy had made observations on worm-castings for CD in 1872 and helped with an experiment investigating the effect of formic acid on the development of spawn (see Correspondence vol. 20, letter to Amy Ruck, 24 February [1872] , and this volume, letter to Francis Darwin, [ …
From Francis Darwin [12 May 1878]
Summary
Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 May 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11504F |
From Francis Darwin [26? October 1873]
Summary
Observations on the leaves of Desmodium. Most are trifoliate; none has tendrils. Gives some comments from Hooker.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26? Oct 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.2: 21–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9115 |
From Francis Darwin 14 August [1873]
Summary
Has found Lathyrus maritima on the cliffs near Barmouth.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9009F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 15 August [1873] . Lathyrus maritimus is now …
- … August 1873 ). ‘Jim’ was a nickname for Horace Darwin (letter from Francis Darwin and Amy …
- … letter from Francis Darwin, [16 or 17 August 1873] ). The everlasting pea is either Lathyrus latifolius (the broad-leaved everlasting pea) or L. sylvestris (the narrow-leaved everlasting pea; now often called the flat pea); L. sylvestris is native to the British Isles, while L. latifolius , a popular garden plant, is naturalised in places (see J. D. Hooker 1870 , p. 104). Francis …
From Francis Darwin [16 or 17 August 1873]
Summary
Gives his opinion on why tubes of peas split to the right of the loose stamens [inLathyrus sylvestris].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 or 17 Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 140–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9012 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 October [1873]
Summary
Neptunia is evidently a hopeless case.
Good news that fluid of Nepenthes is acid.
No discovery ever gave him more pleasure than proving a true act of digestion in Drosera.
Has become profoundly interested in Desmodium. Asks whether Frank [Darwin] can look over the whole dried collection of the genus.
Has JDH any seed of Lathyrus nissolia?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 282–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9108 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1873
Summary
Mimosa prostrata, described by John Lindley as M. marginata, native of Brazil.
Who supplies CD with distilled water and chemicals?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 169–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9089 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 October [1873]
Summary
Hopes to get another species of Desmodium from Mr Rollisson.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 Oct [1873] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 f.3a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9100 |
To Francis Darwin 16 April [1873]
Summary
"Try only 1 or 2 drops of Formic A[cid]."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8862 |
From E. A. Darwin 25 September [1873]
Summary
EAD sees advantages to Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B90–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9069 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Fears [CD’s] albumen theory will not work because albumen is coagulated and filtered out in making extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamine, and colchicine [alkaloid poisons].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9198 |
To H. E. Litchfield 4 January [1875]
Summary
Describes his views on vivisection. Cannot sign petition of F. P. Cobbe, with its attack on Rudolf Virchow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 4 Jan [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9799 |
To Francis Darwin 10 October 1873
Summary
Asks for details about microscope parts.
Wants FD to ask Hooker for species of Desmodium; CD believes he has found new movements.
Also ask whether Hooker has Drosophyllum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873-8 f.1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9095 |
From Francis Darwin [11 October 1873]
Summary
Has got a cold, so will not go to Kew. Wrote to Hartnack about price of microscopes and describes own model. Told Hooker about Tisley Spiller’s microscope in Paris.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Oct 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9095F |
To Edmund Hartnack 1 March 1874
Summary
Has been waiting several months for a microscope objective and would like it without delay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edmund Hartnack |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9326 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1873 ), having purchased a microscope from Hartnack in June 1873 (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter from Francis Darwin, [ …
- … 1873, CD had decided to order an immersion lens (a lens that produced a higher resolution by means of water) from Edmund Hartnack in Paris (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Francis Darwin, …
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9199 |
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| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (51) |
| Darwin, Francis | (19) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (5) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (111) |
| Darwin, Francis | (41) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (5) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (5) |
