From Asa Gray to Francis Darwin 17 December 1880
Summary
Roots arising from stems and shoots of brambles.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12921 |
To Francis Darwin 5 August [1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12679 |
Matches: 4 hits
To Francis Darwin [before 1 August 1880]
Summary
Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [before 1 Aug 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12645 |
To Francis Darwin 27 December [1880]
Summary
FD’s abstract ["Physiology of plants", Nature 23 (1880): 178–81] is excellent, and as clear as daylight.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 27 Dec [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12945 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Francis Darwin 27 December [1880] …
- … DAR 211: 68 Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 Dec [1880] Francis Darwin …
- … Darwin, Francis. 1880c. The theory of the growth of cuttings; illustrated by observations on the bramble, Rubus fruticosus . [Read 16 December 1880. ] …
- … Darwin, Francis. 1880a. On the power possessed by leaves of placing themselves at right angles to the direction of incident light. [Read 16 December 1880. ] …
- … Darwin 1880a and F. Darwin 1880b ; he summarised these in Nature , 23 December 1880, pp. 178–81 (see letter from Francis Darwin, [before 15 December 1880] ). …
To Francis Darwin 11 August [1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12686 |
To Francis Darwin [after 27 December 1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 27 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12950 |
From Francis Darwin [1 August 1880]
Summary
Thanks for letter and journals. Sends information on earthworms and also information from Mr Ruck. Describes his fishing and his success finding sea shore plants that are new to him.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Aug 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12675F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [1 August 1880] …
- … DAR 274.1: 63 Francis Darwin Aberdovey [1 Aug 1880] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 28 July [1880] . In 1880, the Sunday following 28 …
- … Darwin, [20 January 1872] ). See also letter to Francis Darwin, [before 1 August 1880] . …
To Francis Darwin 28 July [1880]
Summary
Thanks FD for criticisms [of Movement in plants]. J. D. Hooker was interested in the observations of movement in Desmodium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 28 July [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12672 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To Francis Darwin 28 July [1880] …
- … DAR 211: 65 Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 July [1880] Francis Darwin …
- … was in Wales ( letter from Francis Darwin, [1 August 1880] ). Ernst Stahl sent an offprint …
- … Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, Shoe String Press. Movement in plants : The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
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: 6 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [25–7 May 1880] …
- … DAR 274.1: 65 Francis Darwin [25–7 May 1880] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary records that Francis Darwin left for Brittany on Monday 31 May 1880 ( …
- … 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 arrived in Southampton on Friday 28 May 1880 ( …
- … Francis Darwin’s visits to Southampton; Francis must have written after Emma and CD’s departure for Southampton on 25 May and before his arrival there on 28 May (see nn. 4 and 6, below). The telegram has not been found. Convolvulus is the genus of bindweed. On 4 May 1880, …
- … Francis Darwin appears to have been trying to measure the rate of growth of plants relative to the amount of light present; he was possibly using the auxanometer (a self-recording instrument for measuring growth) built by Horace Darwin in 1876 ( F. Darwin and Acton 1894 , p. 140 n. 2). CD stayed with Sara and William Erasmus Darwin in Southampton from 25 May to 8 June 1880 ( …
From W. H. Flower to Francis Darwin 16 February 1880
Author: | William Henry Flower |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12486 |
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: 6 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [before 15 December 1880] …
- … DAR 274.1: 62 Francis Darwin London [before 15 Dec 1880] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Francis Darwin, [4–7 August 1878] , and Correspondence vol. 27, letter to Edward Frankland, 8 February 1879 ). Francis summarised his two papers in Nature , 23 December 1880, …
- … Darwin, Francis. 1880c. The theory of the growth of cuttings; illustrated by observations on the bramble, Rubus fruticosus . [Read 16 December 1880. ] …
- … Darwin, Francis. 1880a. On the power possessed by leaves of placing themselves at right angles to the direction of incident light. [Read 16 December 1880. ] …
- … Francis presented two papers at the Linnean Society on Thursday, 16 December 1880 ( F. Darwin …
From O. A. Ainslie to Francis Darwin 28 November [1880]
Summary
Thanks for information about the property in question [Tromer Lodge, see 12842]. His father, Robert Ainslie, had protested a settlement made in an earlier transaction.
Author: | Oliver Alexander Ainslie |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 28 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 11c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12872A |
From Francis Darwin [11 or 12 November 1880]
Summary
Sorry he forgot the gardener’s address. Having a very nice time in Cambridge, and is almost finished the bramble paper. Drawing room is upside down, so living in Horace’s working room and dining room. Greek question was lost in the Senate House. George dined there last night. Too muddy to bicycle. Has some stuff for spectacles.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 or 12 Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12807F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [11 or 12 November 1880] …
- … DAR 274.1: 64 Francis Darwin Cambridge [11 or 12 Nov 1880] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter to R. F. Cooke, 20 October 1880 ). Francis Darwin 1880b . The bramble studied by …
- … 48–9, and 2 November 1880, pp. 103–6). George Howard Darwin and Francis Maitland Balfour . …
- … Darwin’s shop: a history of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company 1878 to 1968. Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger. Darwin, Francis. 1880c. The theory of the growth of cuttings; illustrated by observations on the bramble, Rubus fruticosus . [Read 16 December 1880. ] …
From Francis Darwin to Édouard Heckel 26 November 1880
Summary
Indications on the movement of flowers.
It is not customary to recommend someone for membership of the Royal Society.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
Date: | 26 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12860F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From Francis Darwin to Édouard Heckel 26 November 1880 …
- … 17 November 2019, lot 43) Francis Darwin Down 26 Nov 1880 Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel …
- … Darwin. (French translation of Movement in plants . ) Paris: C. Reinwald. Movement in plants : The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
To ? 3 August 1880
Summary
CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 3 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12676 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … found. Francis Darwin was in Wales (see letter from Francis Darwin, [1 August 1880] ); he …
- … 1880 Dear Sir I write one line to thank you very much for your second note. I now understand what is to be done, & as soon as my son Francis returns home we will endeavour to make the solution according to your instructions. Believe me Dear Sir | yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin …
To W. H. Flower [after 16 February 1880]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | [after 16 Feb 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 19v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12505 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 November 1880
Summary
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 496–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12841 |
Movement in plants: The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880.
To ? 18 August [1880?]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 Aug [1880?] |
Classmark: | Harvard University, Department of Psychology |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13289A |
To F. M. Balfour 4 September 1880
Summary
Praises FMB’s BAAS address [on embryology, Rep. BAAS 50 (1880): 636–44]. Recent progress of embryology splendid.
In work on plants, astonished at sensitivity of radicle and its power to transmit stimuli to adjoining part; such general sensitivity should be considered in genesis of nervous system.
Feels "malicious" pleasure at FMB’s criticism of Herbert Spencer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Date: | 4 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12706 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (212) |
Darwin, Francis | (29) |
Cooke, R. F. | (15) |
John Murray | (15) |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (168) |
Darwin, Francis | (38) |
Hooker, J. D. | (28) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (27) |
Müller, Fritz | (13) |
Darwin, C. R. | (380) |
Darwin, Francis | (67) |
Hooker, J. D. | (38) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (35) |
Cooke, R. F. | (24) |