From Francis Darwin to the Auckland Star 4 January 1877
Summary
His father is grateful for the account of the alleged discovery of men with tails.
His father does not believe in their existence of the tailed men, although the tails may be an inherited monstrosity.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Auckland Star |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | Auckland Star, 1 March 1877, p. 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10770F |
From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin 24 September 1877
Summary
Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 199.5: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11152 |
From Henry Jackson to Francis Darwin 18 November 1877
Summary
Nomenclature for kinds of heliotropism.
| Author: | Henry Jackson |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.11: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11239 |
From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin 25 November 1877
Summary
SB’s book [Life and habit (1878)] will be bound shortly. He will send two copies, one of which can be given to CD. To SB’s surprise it has turned out to be an attack on CD’s views and a defence of Lamarck; describes how he was brought to the opinions expressed in it.
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 393 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11254 |
From Francis Darwin [before 21 May 1877]
Summary
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 21 May 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520F |
To Francis Darwin [c. 20 March 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 20 Mar 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10752 |
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
From Francis Darwin to G. N. de Stoppelaar 25 April 1877
Summary
Sends thanks for diploma on CD’s behalf.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10940F |
From Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 7 June 1877
Summary
CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.
CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 7 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10989F |
From Francis Darwin 11 June 1877
Summary
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10994F |
To Francis Darwin [10 June 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [10 June 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10995 |
From Francis Darwin to P. P. C. Hoek [c. 24 June 1877]
Summary
CD has written to [Charles] Wyville Thomson in favour of PPCH’s request [for duplicates of Pycnogonida collected by the Challenger expedition], and hopes it will be successful.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
| Date: | [c. 24 June 1877] |
| Classmark: | Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11014F |
From Francis Darwin to W. M. Moorsom 29 October 1877
Summary
His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Warren Maude Moorsom |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 385b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11216A |
From Francis Darwin to T. F. Cheeseman 12 December 1877
Summary
Writes for CD, thanking TFC for his pamphlet on Selliera. CD was so interested that he ventured to forward it to Nature for publication.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Frederick Cheeseman |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS 58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11277 |
From Francis Darwin [28 October 1877?]
Summary
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302F |
From Francis Darwin to Thomas Edison [20–9 December 1877]
Summary
His father asks him to thank TAE for sending the curious case of the insects [see 11271].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Alva Edison |
| Date: | [20–9 Dec 1877] |
| Classmark: | Thomas Edison National Park (Edison Document File, 1878 Folder: (D-78-02) Edison, T.A. – General) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11312A |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 2 January [1877]
Summary
Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.
Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.503) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10765 |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 5 December 1877
Summary
Discusses planting onions for experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.527) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11270 |
From E. A. Greaves to Francis Darwin 31 December 1877
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer of £50 for portrait of Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11299 |
| Darwin, Francis | (13) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (2) |
| Greaves, E. A. | (1) |
| Hadley, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
| Auckland Star | (1) |
| Cheeseman, T. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (19) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (2) |
| Auckland Star | (1) |
