From Anton Stecker to Francis Darwin 12 March 1878
Summary
Will publish Origin first
and then Descent.
AS is looking for a job in a zoological museum or accompanying an expedition.
Author: | Anton Stecker |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 250 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11418 |
From Francis Darwin to Anton Stecker 17 March 1878
Summary
Sends father’s regrets that CD will not be able to help Stecker as appointments are few in number and much sought after.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Anton Stecker |
Date: | 17 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11429F |
From William Martindale to Francis Darwin 24 May 1878
Summary
WM, a pharmaceutical chemist, sends Stoddard’s pure sea-salts.
Bolton, the chemist FD mentioned, is dead and his books were probably destroyed. His successor, Linford, went bankrupt.
Author: | William Martindale |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11527 |
From Francis Darwin to ? 23 August 1878
Summary
Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Aug 1878 |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11672 |
From Francis Darwin to Clarke Hawkshaw [before 18 April 1878]
Summary
FD reports that CD thinks CH’s observations on limpets worth publishing (Hawkshaw 1878).
Marlborough Robert Pryor of Weston Park, Stevenage, is an admirable naturalist, especially concerning limpets.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | John Clarke (Clarke) Hawkshaw |
Date: | [before 18 Apr 1878] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (27 March 2019, lot 160) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11711F |
To Francis Darwin [1878?]
Summary
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1878?] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302 |
To Francis Darwin 5 [June 1878]
Summary
Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].
Is working too hard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 5 [June 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11303 |
From Francis Darwin to A. S. Wilson 4 March 1878
Summary
Thanks ASW for Aegilops seed.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 4 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 394 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11400 |
From J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin 25 March 1878
Summary
Suggests movements of sensitive plants may protect against insects.
Author: | John Innes Rogers |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11445 |
From J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin 29 March 1878
Summary
JIR’s "theory" of sensitive plants published in an anonymous letter he sent to the Field 2½ years ago. Mechanisms for protection against insects in sensitive plants.
Author: | John Innes Rogers |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11453 |
To Francis Darwin [11 May 1878]
Summary
Julius von Sachs will "swear & curse" when he finds out he has missed sensitiveness of root apex. Has been putting his notes together and the case is conclusive. [Dated "Saturday 10th" by CD.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [11 May 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11504 |
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 |
To Francis Darwin 15 [July 1878]
Summary
A report has arrived for FD which CD will forward.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 15 [July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11511 |
From Francis Darwin to T. W. Higginson [before 24 May 1878]
Summary
Regrets that the arrangement to visit Down must be for Friday.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
Date: | [before 24 May 1878] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 206) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11523F |
To Francis Darwin [13–26 May 1878]
Summary
Has had conflicting information on the movement of radicles; wants FD to experiment with them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [13–26 May 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11538 |
From J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin 6 June 1878
Summary
Suggests sensitive plants that close at night would be protected from nocturnal-feeding snails. JIR’s brother in India says snails occur there in abundance.
Author: | John Innes Rogers |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11545 |
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 |
To Francis Darwin 18 June [1878]
Summary
Has been observing the movements of leaves and cotyledons; sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation. Reports some odd observations on movement in Oxalis species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 18 June [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11559 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 23 June 1878]
Summary
Can send FD twisted branches of some climbing plants if he wishes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [c. 23 June 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11564 |
To Francis Darwin 26 June [1878]
Summary
Asks questions related to movement in plants. The cotyledons of Oxalis offer a promising field for study.
Wonders why Julius von Sachs thinks bloom is a protection against insects.
Encloses notes on the cotyledons of Oxalis species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 26 June [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11570 |
letter | (58) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Darwin, Francis | (24) |
Rogers, J. I. | (4) |
Martindale, William | (1) |
Stecker, Anton | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (34) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Hawkshaw, Clarke | (1) |
Higginson, T. W. | (1) |
Stecker, Anton | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (58) |
Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
Rogers, J. I. | (4) |
Stecker, Anton | (2) |
Hawkshaw, Clarke | (1) |