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From Francis Darwin   [14 June? 1877]

Summary

Forwards letters.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [14 June? 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10762F

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  • … St Thomas’s Hospital, London ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [3] February …
  • … to Bernard’s first two teeth. CD and Emma Darwin were away from home from 8 June until 4 …

From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin   24 September 1877

Summary

Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.

Author:  Samuel Butler
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  24 Sept 1877
Classmark:  DAR 199.5: 100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11152

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  • … and Correspondence vol. 21, letter from G. H. Darwin to Emma Darwin, [before 24 November …

From Francis Darwin to G. N. de Stoppelaar    25 April 1877

Summary

Sends thanks for diploma on CD’s behalf.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar
Date:  25 Apr 1877
Classmark:  Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10940F

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  • … visited London from 20 to 28 April 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). For the diploma …

From Francis Darwin   [28 October 1877?]

Summary

FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [28 Oct 1877?]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 45
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11302F

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  • … around 24 October 1877 (see letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [ c. 25 October …
  • Darwin, Horace. 1901. On the small vertical movements of a stone laid on the surface of the ground. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 68: 253–61. Litchfield, Henrietta Emma. …

From Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes   7 June 1877

Summary

CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.

CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  7 June 1877
Classmark:  Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10989F

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  • … Romanes visited Down on 30 May 1877 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The discussion may …

From E. A. Greaves to Francis Darwin   31 December 1877

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Accepts CD’s offer of £50 for portrait of Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  31 Dec 1877
Classmark:  DAR 165: 219
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11299

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  • … Correspondence vol. 21, letter from G. H. Darwin to Emma Darwin, [before 24 November …

From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes   5 December 1877

Summary

Discusses planting onions for experiment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  5 Dec 1877
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.527)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11270

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  • … University on 17 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis Darwin , who was …

From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes   2 January [1877]

Summary

Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.

Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  2 Jan [1877]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.503)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10765

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  • … The Darwins stayed in London at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Henrietta Emma