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From Francis Darwin to Lawson Tait   22 July [1875]

Summary

CD sends words that he is too busy to work on the Drosera RLT has sent. CD also regrets that the fluid on virgin pitchers of Nepenthes was not tested with white of egg. Until that is done, he doubts whether physiologists would admit the presence of the ferment.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  22 July [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 221.5: 29
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10087

From Francis Darwin to Horace Pearce   24 November 1876

Summary

Explains how they look after Drosera plants.

Encloses his father’s autograph.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Horace Pearce
Date:  24 Nov 1876
Classmark:  Bonhams (dealers) (27 May 2007, lot 590)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10687F

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

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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 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

From Francis Darwin to Ernst Krause   23 October 1879

Summary

CD thanks Krause for the errata.

CD is sorry to hear that Krause’s part will not appear in the French edition, and cannot believe that C.-F. Reinwald would be influenced by antagonism to the Germans. Reinwald always gives CD a small percentage on sales, and CD had intended to pass it on to EK.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:  23 Oct 1879
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (HM 36217)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12268H

From Ernst Krause to Francis Darwin   26 October 1879

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Summary

Problem with Charles Reinwald could be solved if CD would ask that French edition [of Erasmus Darwin] follow English. EK willing to co-operate with Reinwald.

Author:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  26 Oct 1879
Classmark:  DAR 92: B44–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12271

From Francis Darwin to Ernst Krause   [29 October 1879]

Summary

Encloses a letter from CD to C.-F. Reinwald for EK to read, and if he approves, to send on.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:  [29 Oct 1879]
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (HM 36218)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12275F

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

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

From Francis Darwin to Ernst Krause   [after 10 February 1881]

Summary

CD thanks him for his congratulations and for details of letters, which he will keep with the Butlerian documents.

FD is happy for his lecture to be republished in Kosmos.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:  [after 10 Feb 1881]
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (HM 36219)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13048F

From Francis Darwin to George King   [after 21 November 1881]

Summary

CD asks him to say that the beautiful specimens of Dischidia arrived safely.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  George King
Date:  [after 21 Nov 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 113b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13501F

From Francis Darwin to Raphael Meldola   12 January 1882

Summary

CD happy to lend Weismann’s pamphlet to RM.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  12 Jan 1882
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13611

From Francis Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle   24 January [1881]

Summary

FD and CD have been interested in AdeC’s diagram for illustrating inheritance. The difficulty of estimating different qualities in oneself and others is very great. Encloses a diagram illustrating how FD compares himself with his parents. CD has filled in a comparison with his father. It shows he resembles his father more than FD resembles CD. [The qualities compared are: stature, hair, eyes, pulse, musical capacity, ability to draw, tendency toward biological sciences, tendency toward mathematical sciences, perseverence, memory, aptitude for foreign languages.]

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Alphonse de Candolle
Date:  24 Jan [1881]
Classmark:  Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13642
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