To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881
Summary
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 16 and 17 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13159 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … was a pet name for Francis’s son Bernard Darwin . Emma Darwin visited Ellen Harriet Tollet …
- … on 17 May 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Darwin and Leonard Darwin is recorded ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Stephen was a …
- … They visited Down on 8 January 1882 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Bernard Darwin was …
- … sinking has not been identified. Augusta Dickson , Emma Darwin 's maid, had been taken ill …
- … at the beginning of May ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [3 May 1881] ; DAR …
To Francis Darwin 25 May [1881]
Summary
Sends further chapters of Earthworms for correction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 25 May [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13174 |
To Francis Darwin 17 October 1881
Summary
Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".
Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13411 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … fever in the village (letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [9 October 1881] (DAR …
- … deceased wife’s family (letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [9 October 1881] (DAR …
- … 17 October 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Bernard Darwin , Francis’s son, was …
- … Laslett was a local builder. Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood visited the Darwins from 6 to …
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 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 6 June 1881]
Summary
Has accepted FD’s correction to chapter seven [of Earthworms].
Weather is bad; sky like lead and the lake as black as ink.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [c. 6 June 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13194 |
From Francis Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle 24 January [1881]
Summary
FD and CD have been interested in AdeC’s diagram for illustrating inheritance. The difficulty of estimating different qualities in oneself and others is very great. Encloses a diagram illustrating how FD compares himself with his parents. CD has filled in a comparison with his father. It shows he resembles his father more than FD resembles CD. [The qualities compared are: stature, hair, eyes, pulse, musical capacity, ability to draw, tendency toward biological sciences, tendency toward mathematical sciences, perseverence, memory, aptitude for foreign languages.]
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 24 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13642 |
To Francis Darwin 28 June [1881]
Summary
Comments on FD’s notions about movement of multicellular and unicellular organisms.
Comments on an interesting letter received from J. B. Hannay [see 13222] which leads CD to speculate on the possibility of organisms inhabiting a red hot earth under great pressure.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 28 June [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13225 |
To Francis Darwin 8 July 1881
Summary
Comments on the response to Movement in plants, which seems to have been successful.
Is going over revises of Earthworms.
Is investigating further his notion that leaves align themselves in the rain so as to shoot off drops of water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13237 |
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 |
To Francis Darwin 27 May 1881
Summary
Dispatches chapters six and seven [of Earthworms].
Asks for any opinions on V. Hensen and his book, Physiologie der Zeugung [1881], which seems interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 27 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13179 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … University Press). Healey, Edna. 2001. Emma Darwin: the inspirational wife of a genius. …
- … District from 2 June to 5 July 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis often sent …
- … Emma Litchfield . Richter, a noted conductor, was in London for the Richter Concerts, a series started by Franke ( Musical World 58 (1880): 279). Richter could play on every musical instrument except the harp, as well as sing ( Grove 2002 ). Leonard Darwin …
To Francis Darwin 4 [June 1881]
Summary
Has taken almost all FD’s corrections for chapter six [of Earthworms]. Is glad FD approves of the book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 4 [June 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13193 |
To Francis Darwin 22–3 May 1881
Summary
Is sending chapter [of Earthworms] for FD to look over.
Comments on FD’s work on movements of mould.
Is glad to hear about Julius von Sachs and the circumnutation theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 22–3 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170 |
To Francis Darwin [16 June 1881]
Summary
Describes seeds sent by George Payne [see 13205]. Is surprised that they bury themselves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [16 June 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 98v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13206 |
To Francis Darwin [18 December 1881]
Summary
Andrew Clark finds that CD’s heart is perfectly right.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [18 Dec 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13548 |
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 Francis Darwin [25 July 1881]
Summary
Reports on a visit to Hermann Vöchting and discussion of Julius Sachs.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 July 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13252F |
From Francis Darwin 16 July 1881
Summary
Reports de Bary’s opinion of Max Cornu. Accounts of various botanical experiments and observations.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13245F |
To Francis Darwin [after 27 May 1881]
Summary
Thanks FD for corrections [for Earthworms].
Discusses experiments on absorption in Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 27 May 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13181 |
To Francis Darwin 28 [October 1881]
Summary
Earthworms is selling well.
Discussed how to repeat some of their plant experiments while in Cambridge.
Comments on Julius Wiesner’s views on plant movement.
S. H. Vines was very much surprised at the action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of Euphorbia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 28 [Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13440 |
To the Darwin children 3 January 1881
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12972 |
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Darwin, H. E. | (3) |
Darwin, Horace | (3) |
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Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
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Darwin, Horace | (3) |
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Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (3) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |