To Edward Frankland 28 April [1874]
Summary
Thanks for letter relating to domesticated bullfinches’ instinctively cutting off cowslips [see 9430]. Suggests observing whether the birds swallow any part of flower or particular parts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 28 Apr [1874] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9432A |
To [W. W. Baxter?] 11 May [1873]
Summary
Requests litmus paper and gum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 11 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Herter Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8319 |
To Edward Frankland 18 July [1873]
Summary
Agrees to delay sending the fluid [from the glands of Drosera] until early October. Will try suggestion about pepsin. [See 8981.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 18 July [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8982A |
To Edward Frankland 16 July [1873]
Summary
Thanks EF for his offer of assistance. Could the viscid secretions [in glands of Drosera] contain pepsin? Will the sodium carbonate render the testing of organic matter difficult? [See 8979.] Will send the fluid in a fortnight.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 16 July [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8980A |
To Edward Frankland [before 6 June 1876]
Summary
Requests chemical analysis of sample of both natural and burnt soil.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | [before 6 June 1876] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10533A |
Matches: 2 hits
- … relationship between this letter and the letter to Edward Frankland, 6 June [1876] . The …
- … Edward Frankland, [before 6 June 1876] ). CD was interested in producing soil lacking nutrients so that he could control the substances plants received and assess the effect this had on their variation (see letter …
To Edward Frankland 18 October [1873]
Summary
Apologises for his ignorance in interpreting the results secured in his testing with blue litmus paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 18 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9100A |
To Edward Frankland 20 May [1874]
Summary
Thanks for the sewage water and the oleic acid. The former does not seem to act.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 20 May [1874] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9462A |
To Edward Frankland 7 October [1873]
Summary
Requests a piece of the most sensitive litmus paper in order to test the secretions of minute hairs of plants which catch minute flies. [See 9098.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 7 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9090A |
To Edward Frankland 2 December [1878]
Summary
Thanks for the Blue Book [Report to the Local Government Board on the water supplied to London].
Gives instructions for sending the pure water.
Has sent for the Wenham ice.
Enjoyed his talk with EF.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 2 Dec [1878] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection 2230) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11768A |
To Edward Frankland 4 January [1879]
Summary
Fears that the promised bottle of pure water may have been despatched or stolen in passage. [See 11768a.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 4 Jan [1879] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11820A |
To Francis Darwin [30 April 1876]
Summary
CD has just had an interview with Edward Frankland, who "almost laughs" at FD’s idea of getting potash and soda out of the soil by treating it with sulphuric acid. Asks FD to send him a soil sample to give to Frankland. Sends enclosures giving address and labels for soil samples.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [30 Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485B |
Matches: 4 hits
- … wanted evidently came. See letter to Edward Frankland, 27 April [1876] and n. 3. Margaret …
- … 1876. CD visited Frankland on 30 April 1876; see letter to Edward Frankland, 27 April [ …
- … from Edward Frankland, 30 April 1874 , and letter to Nature , 7 and 11 May [1874]): In the …
- … Edward Frankland had written to CD about it in 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letter …
From Francis Darwin to J. H. Gilbert 8 June 1876
Summary
Asks about constituents of burnt soil.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Date: | 8 June 1876 |
Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10535F |
From Edward Frankland 30 April 1874
Author: | Edward Frankland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9435 |
To Edward Frankland 17 April 1874
Summary
Thanks for the pure phosphate of lime.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 17 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9415A |
To Edward Frankland 11 October 1874
Summary
Acknowledges the information about the phosphate and about putrefaction. Regrets that there is no knowledge of the conjectured substance. [See 9671.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 11 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9673A |
To D. F. Nevill 7 September 1874
Summary
Thanks her for specimen of Drosera. Asks for an epiphytic Utricularia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Date: | 7 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.449) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9627 |
From Edward Frankland 15 July 1873
Author: | Edward Frankland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8979 |
From Edward Frankland [before 6 June 1876]
Summary
Sends analysis of burnt and unburnt samples.
Author: | Edward Frankland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 June 1876] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10533F |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 18 October [1873]
Summary
Suggests experiments on artificial digestion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9684 |
To Edward Frankland 23 September 1873
Summary
Will follow EF’s suggestions as to securing purity of fibrin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 23 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9064A |
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Hooker, J. D. | (14) |
Darwin, Francis | (12) |
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