To Francis Darwin 17 July [1878]
Summary
Discusses sleep movements of Porlieria.
Has read an abstract of Julius Wiesner on heliotropism and geotropism ["Die heliotropischen Erscheinungen im Pflanzenreiche", Anz. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien 15 (1878): 137–40] which seems important but is puzzling.
Gives details of his observations on climbing plants with reference to comments by Julius Sachs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 17 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11615 |
From Francis Darwin [before 4 June 1881]
Summary
Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13192F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1870 and Carpenter 1872 ). Francis’s paper, ‘ Ueber Circumnutation bei einem einzelligen Organe’ (On circumnutation in a single-cell organ; F. Darwin …
- … 1870–1): 146–221. Cornu, Maxime and Mer, Émile. 1878. Recherches sur l’absorption des matières colorantes par les racines. In Comptes rendus sténographiques du Congrès international de botanique et d’horticulture tenu à Paris du 16 au 24 août 1878. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. Darwin, Francis. …
To W. H. Flower [1871?]
Summary
Does not know rules for admission to museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons]. CD’s son [Francis] wishes much to inspect some of the preparations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | [1871?] |
| Classmark: | B. J. Harrison (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 15 July 2004 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5767 |
Royds, E. E. M. (1848–92)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Galton, Francis. 1871. Experiments in pangenesis, by breeding from rabbits of a pure variety, into whose circulation blood taken from other varieties had previously been largely transfused. [Read 30 March 1871. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 19 (1870– …
From A. H. Garrod to Francis Darwin 30 June [1872]
Summary
Sends an account of an attempt to take a sphygmograph tracing of a woman during fright
and some references that might apply to CD’s work on pulse rates during rage and fright.
| Author: | Alfred Henry Garrod |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8399 |
To ? 20 February [1869]
Summary
Gives his opinion of Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse, who is tutoring Horace Darwin in mathematics.
Has not heard that Horace has a chance of a minor scholarship.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1869] |
| Classmark: | Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Spring 2014, lot 188) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6624F |
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1870 ( Woodcroft 1871 , p. 450). Richard Irwin Lynch was helping Francis with his work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on stomata on leaves, which was part of his and CD’s investigations of bloom on plants; CD did not publish on bloom, but see F. Darwin …
- … Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Weiss, Adolf, 1865. Untersuchungen über die Zahlen- und Grössenverhältnisse der Spaltöffnungen. Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Botanik 4 (1865–6): 125–96. Woodcroft, Bennet. 1871. Alphabetical index of patentees and applicants for patents of invention, for the year 1870. …
To James Paget 14 November 1880
Summary
Surprising thought that diseases of plants should illustrate human pathology.
Will recommend A. B. Frank’s article in a German encyclopedia, on diseases of plants, to Francis Darwin.
Gives JP a good case of regeneration in plants – the radicle of the common bean. That plants have little power of regeneration is not difficult to understand by anyone who believes in Pangenesis, "if such a man exists … There is reason to think that my imaginary gemmules have small power of passing from cell to cell."
Refers to early experiments in which he tried to produce galls in plants by injecting poisons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 14 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12819 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 July 1877
Summary
Is forwarding several plants requested by CD.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11056 |
To F. E. Abbot 8 January 1872
Summary
CD is grateful for the eulogy in Index [no. 104]. Many would disagree. It is the fashion to say he is a good observer with "an utterly illogical mind".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8151 |
From F. E. Abbot 20 August 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for interest in FEA’s work and for money for Index. Sends 1870 volume of Index.
Praises CD’s services to free-thought.
Asks for CD’s view of the influence of his theory on religion, to use in lecture.
| Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7912 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1870. ] Truths for the times. Mount Pleasant, Ramsgate: Thomas Scott. Abbot, Francis Ellingwood. 1871. The intuitional and scientific schools of free religion. [Read 5 February 1871. ] Index 2: 113–15. Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. …
From Francis Galton 9 January 1871
Summary
Definite results have been delayed, but he is optimistic.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7432 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Francis Galton, 31 March 1870 and nn. 5 and 6). There is an annotated copy of B. A. Gould 1869 ( Investigations in the military and anthropological statistics of American soldiers ) in the Darwin …
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Galton, Francis. 1871. Experiments in pangenesis, by breeding from rabbits of a pure variety, into whose circulation blood taken from other varieties had previously been largely transfused. [ Read 30 March 1871. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 19 (1870– …
Pryor, M. R. (1848–1920)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1870. Chairman, Sun Life Insurance Co. Alum. Cantab . Bibliography Alum. Cantab. : Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54. 16,17,19,20,21,22,23,24,29,30 Darwin, Francis …
To Francis Darwin [September 1875 or later?]
Summary
Asks FD to make out [Hermann] Hoffmann’s conclusions about the fertilisation of Phaseolus multiflorus [in Untersuchungen zur Bestimmung des Werthes von Species und Varietät (1869)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [Sept 1875 or later?] |
| Classmark: | CUL, Darwin Pamphlet Collection R112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9219A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Many of the annotations do not appear to be in CD’s hand, and were probably made by Francis. See Cross and self fertilisation , p. 152. William Ogle reported that none of the flowers of the scarlet runner-beans protected from insect visits in his garden had produced a pod ( Ogle 1870 , …
From Francis Galton 24 September 1875
Summary
Sends a lecture CD wished to see
and corrects himself about the twins.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10169 |
From W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot 13 June [1880]
Summary
CD has asked him to express appreciation for the Index and regret that FEA will no longer be running it. CD wishes FEA to stop the weekly advertisement of his appreciation of the Index.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 13 June [1880] |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (13 June [1880]), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12633 |
From F. E. Abbot 18 July 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for five dollars and two-year subscription to Index, and for permission to quote CD’s compliments on Truths for the times.
| Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8417 |
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 Robert Swinhoe 2 February 1870
Summary
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 333 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7095 |
From J. D. Dana 23 May 1872
Summary
JDD is sending a copy of his book, Corals and coral islands [1872], with his compliments.
| Author: | James Dwight Dana |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | Gilman 1899, p. 315 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8349 |
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