From Francis Darwin [12 May 1878]
Summary
Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 May 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11504F |
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 |
From Francis Darwin [29 June] 1878
Summary
Sleep of Porlieria hygrometrica seems independent of light.
Will have lots of time for oats. W. F. P. Pfeffer’s point is that there is no growth in sleepers with joints. A. F. Batalin says there is a slight growth.
[Dated Saturday 28th by FD.]
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 June] 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11575 |
From Francis Darwin [July 1878]
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 [before 7 July 1878]
Summary
He has been talking to Julius von Sachs about sleeping plants that move with and without growth.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 7 July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11593F |
From Francis Darwin [after 7 July 1878]
Summary
Sleep in Porlieria studied.
Oats begin germinating.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.7: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11596 |
From Francis Darwin [12 July 1878]
Summary
Chlorophyll development in oat seedling.
Lists the sleeping plants he has seen.
Julius Sachs thinks Hugo de Vries has not cleared up everything [about climbing plants]. But Sachs has not worked on the mechanical problem.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.1: 156–7, DAR 209.14: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11604 |
From Francis Darwin [before 17 July 1878]
Summary
More sleepers from green-house.
Julius Sachs’s view of climbing plants: he distinguishes between nutation to find a support and growth after support is found.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 17 July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.1: 155; DAR 274.1: 50, 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11613 |
From Francis Darwin [21 July 1878]
Summary
Has been investigating nutational movements of climbing plants; comments on the opinions of Julius von Wiesner and Julius Sachs. Remarks on the sleep movements of certain plants and the mechanism of tendril curvature. Is experimenting with Porlieria.
Has visited K. G. Semper’s laboratory.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 59, DAR 209.8: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11623 |
From Francis Darwin 24 and 25 July 1878
Summary
Notes Julius Sachs’s opinion on the heliotropism of moulds: he can see no use in the response.
C. E. Stahl is working on swarm spores which can be made both helio- and apheliotropic.
Sachs has told him that some ferns sleep, and he suspects that some grasses may move.
Sachs also feels they may be working at bloom from a wrong point of view and suggests leaves may need to keep dry in order to keep their stomata open.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 and 25 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 60, DAR 209.6: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11628 |
From Francis Darwin [4–7 August 1878]
Summary
Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4–7 Aug 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11632 |
From Francis Darwin [before 3 August 1878]
Summary
Sachs jumps to the conclusion twiners and tendrils are similar from the Menispermum that twined without a stick. Akebia grows down a stick; not only the free end is involved.
Sleeping plants.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 Aug 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.8: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11638 |
From Francis Darwin [after August 1878]
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Aug 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11683 |
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 |
From Francis Darwin [before 22 November 1878]
Summary
Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 Nov 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11754F |
From Francis Darwin [after 28 February 1878]
Summary
He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Feb 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11754G |
From Francis Darwin [23 November 1878]
Summary
Many thnks for the pelargonium letter.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Nov 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11755F |
From Francis Darwin [25–7 November 1878]
Summary
He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25–7 Nov 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11768H |
From Francis Darwin [c. 25 February 1879]
Summary
Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 25 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11883F |
From Francis Darwin 3 March [1879]
Summary
Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11913F |
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