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 Francis Darwin [1873]
Summary
Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8713F |
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 |
From Francis Darwin [19 September 1873]
Summary
Reports that S. W. Moore may be able to provide various substances for CD’s research on the digestive power of Drosera (sundew).
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Sept 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059F |
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 |
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 |
From E. A. Darwin [1873–81]
Summary
Notes on the shoveller, taken from John Gould’s Birds of Great Britain [1862–73].
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1873–81] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: 47–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13790 |
From Francis Darwin [1–15 March 1873]
Summary
Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn’t suit him. May go to Pryor’s on Sunday.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1–15 Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8714F |
From Francis Darwin [before 26 June 1873]
Summary
Has discussed with E. E. Klein about the purchase of a Hartnack microscope from Paris.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 26 June 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9092F |
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 [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 |
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 |
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 |
From T. R. Clephan 19 February 1873
Summary
Reports that he has the power of moving his left ear towards the top of his head [see Descent 1: 21].
| Author: | Thomas Richmond Clephan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8775 |
From A. R. Wallace [19 November 1873]
Summary
Thinks CD’s son George would be more satisfactory than ARW for the work on Descent.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9156 |
From ? [1873–4?]
Summary
Cancelled: enclosure to S 9290.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1873–4?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8714 |
From Francis Darwin [30 September 1873]
Summary
He is travelling overnight by train from London to Pantlludw and will wake A. R. Ruck with a morningade on his flute.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Sept 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8942F |
To ? [June–September 1873?]
Summary
Printed memorandum giving reasons why there should be subsidy on a large scale of scientific research unencumbered with teaching.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [June–Sept 1873?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (T. H. Huxley papers Mss.B.H981) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9040G |
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 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 |
| letter | (571) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (283) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (26) |
| Darwin, Francis | (13) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (7) |
| Krefft, Gerard | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (286) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (13) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (12) |
| Darwin, Francis | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (569) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (55) |
| Darwin, Francis | (23) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (19) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (16) |
