To Francis Darwin [2 June 1876]
Summary
Looks to FD’s "grand discovery" as almost certain. Suggests observations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10526 |
Matches: 4 hits
To Francis Darwin 30 [May 1876]
Summary
Discusses FD’s observations on the protrusion of protoplasmic masses by cells of the teasel. Suggests analogy with amoeba. "I would work at this subject if I were you, to the point of death."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 30 [May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10517 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … DAR 271.3: 14 Charles Robert Darwin Hopedene 30 [May 1876] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 30 [May 1876] …
- … this letter and the letters from Francis Darwin , [28 May 1876] and [29 May 1876] . CD …
- … masses (see letter from Francis Darwin, [29 May 1876] ). CD refers to a solution of …
- … a synonym of D. fullonum ). See letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] and n. 3. …
- … Chronicle , 27 May 1876, p. 689. See letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] and n. 4. …
- … Darwin, [28 May 1876] and n. 3. An amoeba was considered to be a small mass of undifferentiated protoplasm. Foraminifera are unicellular marine protozoans; they are typically found near the bottom of the sea (Lipps et al. 2011). In his printed paper, Francis …
To Francis Darwin [12 October 1876]
Summary
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [12 Oct 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10641 |
To Francis Darwin 25 September [1876]
Summary
FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10617 |
To Francis Darwin [July 1874 – September 1876]
Summary
Has had a nice stay with William, who is charming but rather languid and cannot read to himself.
Love to Amy [Darwin] and Mrs Ruck.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [July 1874–Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9523A |
To Francis Darwin [11 October 1876]
Summary
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [11 Oct 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10638 |
To Francis Darwin [1 June 1876]
Summary
Comments on FD’s discovery – "if it so proves". It will be important to see whether the protoplasm oozes through the cell-walls [of Dipsacus] or whether it can be withdrawn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10525 |
To Francis Darwin 2 October [1876]
Summary
Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].
Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10629 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … DAR 211: 15 Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Oct [1876] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 2 October [1876] …
- … fertilisation (see letter to Francis Darwin, 27 [September 1876] and n. 2). The common or …
- … Fischer 1876a ; letter to Francis Darwin, 20 September [1876] ). The paper on the Iltis ( …
- … in May (see letter from Francis Darwin, 27 May 1876 ). The book has not been identified, …
- … June 1876] and n. 2. The results were published in F. Darwin 1877b . CD had sent Francis a …
- … 1876, pp. 18–19, ‘Sexual selection in relation to monkeys’. On Francis’s experiments with the common or fuller’s teasel ( Dipsacus sylvestris , a synonym of D. fullonum ), see the letter from Francis Darwin, [ …
To Francis Darwin 20 September [1876]
Summary
Suggests German works worth translating.
Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10611 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … DAR 211: 11 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Sept [1876] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 20 September [1876] …
- … 1877b). See letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] and n. 1. CD was correcting …
- … letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] . CD’s heavily annotated copy …
- … see letter to W. E. Darwin, 11 September [1876] ). Francis’s paper ‘On the protrusion of …
- … Francis had told Emma Darwin , ‘the love & care of Mrs Ruck & Atty are beautiful’ (quoted in the letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, [26 September 1876] ( …
- … 1876] and 15 September 1876 ). The articles CD recommended are ‘Aus dem Leben eines jungen Mandril ( Cynocephalus mormon ); seine Erkrankung und sein Tod’ (From the life of a young mandrill ( Cynocephalus mormon ); his illness and death; Fischer 1876a ), and ‘Beobachtungen über Kreuzungen verschiedener Farbenspielarten innerhalb einer Species’ (Observations on crosses of various colour types within a species; Fischer 1874b ). Henry Lawson was the editor of Popular Science Review . Francis’s wife, Amy Darwin , …
To Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Expresses his pride in FD, whose article ["On the structure of the snail’s heart", J. Anat. Physiol. 10 (1876): 506–10] was highly praised by G. H. Lewes.
Lewes has also been quoting FD’s letter in Nature [13 (1876): 384–5] on pycrotoxine in relation to the vivisection controversy.
Was introduced to James Sully, author of the article in Mind on Wilhelm Wundt ["Physiological psychology in Germany", 1 (1876): 20–43]
and Sensation and intuition (1874) [see 10320], by "Mrs Lewes" (George Eliot).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10489A |
Matches: 4 hits
- … DAR 271.4: 5 Charles Robert Darwin [1 May 1876] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin [1 May 1876] …
- … CD visited Lewes and Evans on 30 April 1876. Francis Darwin’s article ‘On the structure of …
- … Darwin 1876a ) had been published in April 1876; his letter on the use of pycrotoxine (now more commonly picrotoxin) in vivisection experiments in Nature , 16 March 1876, pp. 384–5. In the latter, Francis …
To Francis Darwin [28 September 1876]
Summary
Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.
Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [28 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10623 |
To Francis Darwin [30 April 1876]
Summary
CD has just had an interview with Edward Frankland, who "almost laughs" at FD’s idea of getting potash and soda out of the soil by treating it with sulphuric acid. Asks FD to send him a soil sample to give to Frankland. Sends enclosures giving address and labels for soil samples.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [30 Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485B |
To Francis Darwin 16 September [1876]
Summary
Forwards chapter [of Orchids (1877)] for correction.
Sadness at the death of Amy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10604 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … DAR 211: 10 Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Sept [1876] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 16 September [1876] …
- … 1876 ); his family may have been moving some of his scientific equipment from Down Lodge, the home he and Amy had moved to after their marriage in 1874 ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1874). The note from Francis to Emma Darwin …
To Francis Darwin 27 [September 1876]
Summary
Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 27 [Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10621 |
To Francis Darwin 8 October [1876]
Summary
Sends an article for FD.
Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10635 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … DAR 211: 16 Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 8 Oct [1876] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 8 October [1876] …
- … 1876] and n. 4. Francis was experimenting with protoplasmic filaments that protruded from gland-cells on leaves of the common teasel ( Dipsacus sylvestris , a synonym of D. fullonum ; see letter from Francis Darwin, [ …
To Francis Darwin [before 22 July 1876]
Summary
Asks FD to write on his behalf and say that he is unwilling to join a deputation [on vivisection] and that he believes in the need to protect physiology as well as lower animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 July 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10747 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … DAR 202: 40 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [before 22 July 1876] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin [before 22 July 1876] …
- … Francis Darwin was a member of the Physiological Society and CD was an honorary member ( Sharpey-Schafer 1927 , p. 13). The Royal Commission on Vivisection , which met from June to December 1875, submitted a report in January 1876, …
To Francis Darwin [c. December 1876]
Summary
Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [c. Dec 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762 |
To D. J. Wetterhan 25 May [1876]
Summary
Thanks for letter of 21st.
When the curious Salvia arrives, CD will have it carefully planted. Interested in seeing its flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Julius Wetterhan |
Date: | 25 May [1876] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main (Ms.Ff.D.J.Wetterhan III.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10514A |
To Leonard Darwin 11 September [1876]
Summary
Informs LD of the death of Francis Darwin’s wife, Amy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10596 |
To C. G. Semper 19 July 1878
Summary
Offers to give CGS a writing machine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Date: | 19 July 1878 |
Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11617 |
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Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Darwin, Francis | (23) |
Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
Romanes, G. J. | (8) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (7) |
Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (125) |
Darwin, Francis | (26) |
Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
Romanes, G. J. | (8) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (7) |