From Francis Darwin 14 May 1881
Summary
News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13155F |
From Charles Mostyn Owen [after 29 May 1881]
Summary
Sorry to hear CD is unwell. Hopes outing [to Patterdale] will benefit him.
| Author: | Charles Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 29 May 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 204 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13185 |
From W. E. Darwin 23 May 1881
Summary
Discusses possible investments.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 93) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170G |
From Francis Darwin 19 [May 1881]
Summary
Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfving. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD’s protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 [May 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13166F |
From Charles Mostyn Owen 29 May 1881
Summary
Would like to visit CD. Has not seen him for 40 years.
| Author: | Charles Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 202–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13182 |
From G. J. Romanes 25 May [1881]
Summary
Suggests CD delay arrangements for his Linnean Society portrait. GJR thinks John Collier would be willing to paint it.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 May [1881] |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13173 |
From Francis Darwin 23 [May 1881]
Summary
Would like some of his notes. Has been looking at roots of Linum, cucurbits, larch, and orchids. Is content that mother should teach Bernard whatever religion she likes.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 [May 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170F |
From C. E. Norton 17 May 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for R. W. Darwin’s memoranda respecting Franklin. Would be grateful for copies of any Franklin letters that exist among Dr Darwin’s papers.
| Author: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 77; Sparks ed. 1836–40, 6: 410–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13160 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Mostyn Owen, Charles (b) | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Norton, C. E. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Mostyn Owen, Charles (b) | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Norton, C. E. | (1) |
