From Francis Galton to Francis Darwin 7 April 1871
Summary
CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A25–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7662 |
From Francis Darwin [after August 1878]
Summary
Observations of leaf movement at Würzburg Botanic Garden.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Aug 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11683 |
DCP-LETT-7421
Summary
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7421 |
From Francis Darwin [July 1878]
Summary
Reports observations on day and night movement in Porlieria.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 181 [2nd sheet] |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11578 |
From Francis Darwin [25–7 May 1880]
Summary
Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25–7 May 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12616F |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [25–7 May 1880] …
- … Bibliography Darwin, Francis and Acton, Edward Hamilton. 1894. Practical physiology of …
- … DAR 274.1: 65 Francis Darwin [25–7 May 1880] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … established by the references to CD’s and Francis Darwin’s visits to Southampton; Francis …
- … the nutritive fluids—’ (DAR 68: 21). Francis Darwin appears to have been trying to measure …
- … Appendix II)). Emma Darwin’s diary records that Francis Darwin left for Brittany on Monday …
- … a pet name for Francis’s 3-year-old son, Bernard Darwin ; Bernard and Francis lived with …
- … Darwin , and had accompanied them to Southampton on their previous annual visit ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [10 May 1879] (DAR 219.9: 196)). Emma Darwin’s diary records that Francis Darwin …
From Francis Darwin [21 October 1881]
Summary
Commiserates on news of Wiesner and experiment on transmission of heliotropism. Asks whether he should review book for Nature.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13474F |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [21 October 1881] …
- … DAR 274.1: 69 Francis Darwin [21 Oct 1881] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 1882 ). Fritz Müller . See letter to Francis Darwin, 17 October 1881 . Pinguicula is the …
- … Bibliography Darwin, Francis. 1882. Prof. Wiesner on ‘The power of movement in plants’. …
- … between this letter and the letters to Francis Darwin , 17 October 1881 and 22 [October …
- … in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
- … Francis Darwin, 17 October 1881 and n. 5. CD was reading Julius Wiesner ’s book ( Wiesner 1881 ), which challenged CD’s explanation of heliotropism in Movement in plants . In the event, Francis …
From Francis Darwin [after 1871?]
Summary
Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8715F |
From Francis Darwin [before 5 December 1870]
Summary
Sends list of bills.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 5 Dec 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7387G |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [before 5 December 1870] …
- … DAR 274.1: 13 Francis Darwin Cambridge [before 5 Dec 1870] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 5 December [1870] ( Correspondence …
- … Francis Darwin, 5 December [1870] ; see also this volume, Supplement, second letter from Francis …
From Francis Darwin [before 18 October 1870]
Summary
Needs more money to pay his tutoring bills.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 18 Oct 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7345F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [before 18 October 1870] …
- … DAR 274.1: 14 Francis Darwin Cambridge [before 18 Oct 1870] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … book this morning or I would have written to you before Your affec son | Francis Darwin …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 18 October [1870] ( Correspondence …
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 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [25 July 1881] …
- … DAR 274.1: 67 Francis Darwin Strassburg [25 July 1881] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Darwin, Francis. 1880a. On the power possessed by leaves of placing …
- … Society ( Botany ) 18 (1881): 420–55. Darwin, Francis. 1880c. The theory of the growth of …
- … Society ( Botany ) 18 (1881): 406–19. Darwin, Francis. 1901. The movements of plants. …
- … Nature , 14 November 1901, pp. 40–4. Darwin, Francis. 1920a. Springtime and other …
- … essays. London: John Murray. Darwin, Francis and Acton, Edward Hamilton. 1894. Practical …
- … in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
- … Darwin 1920a , p. 68). Carl Gottfried Semper . CD’s letter to Francis has not been found. For the notice, see the letter from Francis Darwin, …
- … Francis worked at Anton de Bary ’s laboratory in Straßburg in 1881, arriving home on 1 August ( Emma Darwin’ …
- … Francis did not publish specifically on Narcissus or azaleas ( Rhododendron ), but for remarks on Narcissus , see F. Darwin …
From Francis Darwin [after 14 July 1878]
Summary
Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11553F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [after 14 July 1878] …
- … DAR 274.1: 48 Francis Darwin - [after 14 July 1878] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 14 July [1878] . CD wished …
- … see letter to Francis Darwin, 14 July [1878] and n. 11). Francis had initially asked CD …
From Francis Darwin [before 15 December 1880]
Summary
Will stay until London until after the Linnean Society meeting unless CD wants anything. Asks to send abstracts of papers. Has made short abstracts of papers for Nature.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 15 Dec 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12379F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [before 15 December 1880] …
- … DAR 274.1: 62 Francis Darwin London [before 15 Dec 1880] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Darwin, Francis. 1880a. On the power possessed by leaves of placing …
- … Society ( Botany ) 18 (1881): 420–55. Darwin, Francis. 1880c. The theory of the growth of …
- … Correspondence vol. 26, letter from Francis Darwin, [4–7 August 1878] , and Correspondence …
- … Darwin 1880a and F. Darwin 1880b ). Four Bryanston Street, London, was the home of Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield . Bernard Darwin . Francis …
From Francis Darwin [after 22 May 1871]
Summary
Thanks for the cheque, and also for the offer to pay for him to go on a trip to north America with G. H. Darwin.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22 May 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7761G |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [after 22 May 1871] …
- … DAR 274.1: 21 Francis Darwin University “Pitt” Club, Cambridge [after 22 May 1871] Charles …
- … Cambridge University Press. 1922–54. [Darwin, Francis]. 1871. Letter on the melancholy of …
- … to Francis Darwin, 21 May [1871] . CD had offered to pay the expenses of Francis’s trip to …
- … Francis Darwin, 21 May [1871] ). Edward Charles Stirling was studying medicine at St George’s Hospital, London, where Francis …
- … see letter to Francis Darwin, 21 May [1871] and nn. 4 and 10). Francis published a short …
From Francis Darwin [after 2 October 1876]
Summary
Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 2 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10629F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [after 2 October 1876] …
- … DAR 274.1: 40 Francis Darwin Pantlludw [after 2 Oct 1876] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … in relation to monkeys’; see letter to Francis Darwin, 2 October [1876] . The paper on …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 2 October [1876] . Francis sent …
- … see letter to Francis Darwin, 2 October [1876] ). CD had suggested that Francis translate …
- … see letter to Francis Darwin, 2 October [1876] and n. 4). For Francis’s work on the …
From Francis Darwin [before 5 December 1870]
Summary
Has no chance of paying his debts, and asks for money.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 5 Dec 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7387H |
From Francis Darwin 2 May 1876
Summary
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10492F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin 2 May 1876 …
- … DAR 274.1: 23 Francis Darwin 2 May 1876 Down Charles Robert Darwin …
- … had praised Francis’s recent publications (see letter to Francis Darwin, [1 May 1876] ). …
- … to Edward Frankland (see letter from Francis Darwin, [1 May 1876] and n. 2). Fritz was a …
- … Darwin , had been practising typing on a dummy printing machine in advance of the arrival of CD’s typewriter (see letter from Francis Darwin, [ …
- … Darwin’s nickname; Francis possibly refers to a letter from Horace written on CD’s new typewriter. On 1 May 1876, Horace had sent George Howard Darwin a typewritten letter from London (DAR 258: 860), and he might have written to CD or Francis …
From Francis Darwin [after 14 November 1881]
Summary
Thanks for two letters from Pfeffer. Will return translation of Pfeffer and send a letter from Elfring. Looking forward to working on "antiWiesner" experiments. Will return on 26th or 27th.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 Nov 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13485F |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [after 14 November 1881] …
- … DAR 274.1: 68 Francis Darwin [after 14 Nov 1881] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Darwin, Francis. 1880a. On the power possessed by leaves of placing …
- … Society ( Botany ) 18 (1881): 420–55. Darwin, Francis. 1881b. Ueber Circumnutation bei …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 14 November [1881] . CD had sent the …
- … No correspondence between Francis and Elizabeth Darwin has been found in the Darwin …
- … been identified. Bernard Darwin had evidently joined his father in Wales; Francis had gone …
- … Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] and n. 3). Ein Esel : a donkey or, figuratively, a fool or idiot (German). CD had the letter from Wilhelm Pfeffer, 6 November 1881 , translated by Camilla Pattrick (see letter to Camilla Pattrick, [after 6 November 1881] ). The letter from Elfving to Francis …
From Francis Darwin [1 September 1875 or later]
Summary
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Sept 1875 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10153F |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [1 September 1875 or later] …
- … DAR 274.1: 32 Francis Darwin Down [1 Sept 1875 or later] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … coming down to Southampton Yrs affec | Francis Darwin We come by the train that gets to …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, [31 August 1875 or later] , which …
- … of Variation 2d ed. (see letter to Francis Darwin, [31 August 1875 or later] ). Michael …
- … Francis’s note was published in the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology in 1876 ( F. Darwin 1876a ). Proboscis work: see n. 4, below. Amy was Francis’ …
- … Francis published a paper on the proboscis of Ophideres fullonica (‘an orange-sucking moth’) in the October 1875 issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Society ( F. Darwin …
From Francis Darwin [after 18 October 1870]
Summary
Thanks CD for the cheque. Gives account of money owed for tutoring and tennis.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 18 Oct 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7346F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [after 18 October 1870] …
- … DAR 274.1: 20 Francis Darwin Cambridge [after 18 Oct 1870] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … accounts (see Correspondence vol. 18, letter to Francis Darwin, 18 October [1870] ). …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 18 October [1870] ( Correspondence …
- … letter from Francis Darwin, [before 18 October 1870] and n. 2. CD had sent Francis £115 to …
From Francis Darwin [6 July 1879]
Summary
Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 July 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12296F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Francis Darwin [6 July 1879] …
- … DAR 274.1: 61 Francis Darwin [6 July 1879] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to Francis Darwin, 4 July [1879] . Francis performed experiments to determine …
- … already tested. See second letter to Francis Darwin, 2 July [1879] and n. 2. See letter …
- … in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
- … to Francis Darwin, 4 July [1879] . Ubbadubba was a pet name for Bernard Darwin , Francis’s …
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| Darwin, Francis | (162) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (119) |
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| John Murray | (66) |
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| Darwin, Francis | (292) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (185) |
| John Murray | (179) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (174) |
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