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From Francis Darwin   [12 September 1878]

Summary

He has been working hard at Kew for two days.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [12 Sept 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 44
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11690F

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  • … way to visit Sara’s relatives in Boston, Massachussetts ( letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. …
  • … 115)); they sailed on 14 September ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Joseph Dalton Hooker …

From Francis Darwin   [after 28 February 1878]

Summary

He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 28 Feb 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 46
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11754G

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  • … instrument, see Nature , 15 September 1881, p. 470. CD and Emma Darwin stayed at the home …
  • Emma Litchfield at 4 Bryanston Street, London, from 27 February to 5 March (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Bernard Darwin . …

From Francis Darwin   [12 July 1878]

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Summary

Chlorophyll development in oat seedling.

Lists the sleeping plants he has seen.

Julius Sachs thinks Hugo de Vries has not cleared up everything [about climbing plants]. But Sachs has not worked on the mechanical problem.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [12 July 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 209.1: 156–7, DAR 209.14: 88
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11604

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  • … nor Francis’s letter to Elizabeth and Emma Darwin has been found. CD had purchased a …

From Francis Darwin   [4–7 August 1878]

Summary

Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [4–7 Aug 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 162: 57
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11632

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  • … he returned to Down on 12 August ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Edward Frankland often …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1878 ( Jevons 1878 ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Francis returned to Down …

From Francis Darwin   [before 22 November 1878]

Summary

Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 22 Nov 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11754F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Pelargonium . Ubbadubba: Bernard Darwin , Francis’s son. Idy: Emma Cecilia (Ida) Farrer. …
  • Darwin Pamphlet Collection CUL. The other pamphlet has not been identified. There was a newsagent at 10 New Quebec Street, London ( Post Office London directory 1878); it was near the home of Richard Buckley and Henrietta Emma
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