To Francis Darwin 22–3 May 1881
Summary
Is sending chapter [of Earthworms] for FD to look over.
Comments on FD’s work on movements of mould.
Is glad to hear about Julius von Sachs and the circumnutation theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 22–3 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … DAR 211: 75 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22–3 May 1881 Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 22–3 May 1881 …
- … Goltz and Oskar Schmidt at the meeting. See letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] . …
- … Linnean Society ( Botany ) 18 (1881): 420–55. Darwin, Francis. 1880c. The theory of the …
- … Linnean Society ( Botany ) 18 (1881): 406–19. Darwin, Francis. 1881b. Ueber Circumnutation …
- … See letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] ; Francis had described the long hours kept …
- … a bower. ) )See letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] and nn. 3 and 4. Francis had …
- … Francis’s brother. The Darwins went on holiday to Patterdale in the Lake District from 2 June to 5 July 1881 ( …
- … 1881): 105–7. Movement in plants : The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis …
- … 1881. Elfving 1881 was published in Botaniska Notiser , September 1881. See letter from Francis Darwin, …
- … Francis, ‘The theory of the growth of cuttings’ ( F. Darwin 1880b ), published in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ), April 1881. …
- … Francis’s article, ‘On the power possessed by leaves of placing themselves at right angles to the direction of incident light’ ( F. Darwin 1880a ), which was published in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ), June 1881. …
To Francis Darwin 25 May [1881]
Summary
Sends further chapters of Earthworms for correction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 25 May [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13174 |
Matches: 4 hits
To Francis Darwin [9 November 1881]
Summary
Tells some of his observations on root cells. Has thought of three good experiments to oppose Julius von Wiesner.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [9 Nov 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13065 |
To Francis Darwin 30 May [1881]
Summary
CD looks forward with dread to future as he does not have the strength to begin any new subject requiring much work.
Plans to look again at the absorption by roots and root-hairs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 30 May [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13184 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … DAR 211: 79 Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 May [1881] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 30 May [1881] …
- … Horace Darwin (see letter to Francis Darwin, 20 May 1881 and n. 3). Francis may have given …
- … letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 20 May 1881 . The Darwins began their journey to …
- … uniforms (see letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] and n. 13). Elizabeth Darwin went …
To Francis Darwin [after 27 May 1881]
Summary
Thanks FD for corrections [for Earthworms].
Discusses experiments on absorption in Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 27 May 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13181 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … DAR 211: 78 Charles Robert Darwin Down [after 27 May 1881] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin [after 27 May 1881] …
- … fourth chapter of Earthworms on 23 May 1881 ( letter to Francis Darwin, 22–3 May 1881 ). …
- … this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 27 May 1881 . CD and Francis were correcting …
- … 1881 . In a description of the visit, Richter noted that CD had told him that Francis played the bassoon ( Richter 1882 , p. 498). Bernard Darwin and Henrietta Emma Litchfield . CD had sent Francis …
- … Darwin, 23 [May 1881] and nn. 7 and 8). Philippe van Tieghem had made the criticism in his Traité de botanique (Treatise on botany; Tieghem 1884 , p. 208). CD had mentioned that the musician Hans Richter was paying a visit to Down in his letter to Francis …
To Francis Darwin 20 May 1881
Summary
Thanks FD for his excellent corrections [to MS of Earthworms].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13169 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … DAR 211: 74 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 May 1881 Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 20 May 1881 …
- … for Earthworms (see letter from Francis Darwin, 14 May 1881 ). The manuscript about the …
- … Darwin, Francis. 1880a. On the power possessed by leaves of placing themselves at right angles to the direction of incident light. [Read 16 December 1880. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 18 (1881): …
To Francis Darwin 22 [October 1881]
Summary
Thinks FD should review Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. CD comforted that Wiesner’s experiments support their findings but finds it laughable how differently he has interpreted them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 22 [Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13422 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … DAR 211: 87 Charles Robert Darwin Cambridge 22 [Oct 1881] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 22 [October 1881] …
- … Pinguicula (see letter from Francis Darwin, [21 October 1881] and n. 5); no experimental …
- … October 1881 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). See letter from Francis Darwin, [21 October …
- … 26, letter to Francis Darwin, 17 July [1878] ). See Wiesner 1881 , p. 141. See Wiesner …
- … Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Wiesner, Julius. 1878–80. Die heliotropischen Erscheinungen im Pflanzenreiche. [Read 4 July 1878 and 18 March 1880. ] Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe 39 (1879) pt. 1: 143–209; 42 (1880) pt. 1: 1–92. Wiesner, Julius. 1881. …
To Francis Darwin 12 May [1881]
Summary
Copies of FD’s paper have arrived ["The theory of growth", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 18 (1881): 406–19]. Does he want them dispatched?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 12 May [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13155 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … DAR 211: 72 Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 May [1881] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 12 May [1881] …
- … Darwin, Francis. 1880c. The theory of the growth of cuttings; illustrated by observations on the bramble, Rubus fruticosus . [Read 16 December 1880. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 18 (1881): …
- … Francis was working in the laboratory of Anton de Bary at the Botanical Institute, Straßburg (Strasbourg). His paper, ‘The theory of the growth of cuttings’ ( F. Darwin 1880b ), was published on 29 April 1881 …
To Francis Darwin [16 June 1881]
Summary
Describes seeds sent by George Payne [see 13205]. Is surprised that they bury themselves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [16 June 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 98v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13206 |
From Francis Darwin [21 October 1881]
Summary
Commiserates on news of Wiesner and experiment on transmission of heliotropism. Asks whether he should review book for Nature.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13474F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [21 October 1881] …
- … DAR 274.1: 69 Francis Darwin [21 Oct 1881] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Fritz Müller . See letter to Francis Darwin, 17 October 1881 . Pinguicula is the genus of …
- … this letter and the letters to Francis Darwin , 17 October 1881 and 22 [October 1881] . In …
- … Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Wiesner, Julius. 1881. Das …
- … Darwin, 17 October 1881 and n. 5. CD was reading Julius Wiesner ’s book ( Wiesner 1881 ), which challenged CD’s explanation of heliotropism in Movement in plants . In the event, Francis …
To Francis Darwin 14 November [1881]
Summary
Forwards a letter from W. F. P. Pfeffer, who opposes some of Julius Wiesner’s notions on plant movements.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13485 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … DAR 211: 90 Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Nov [1881] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 14 November [1881] …
- … 1881 . CD enclosed the letter from Wilhelm Pfeffer, 6 November 1881 ; it contained remarks on Julius Wiesner ’s study of plant movement ( Wiesner 1881 ). See letter from Wilhelm Pfeffer, 6 November 1881 and n. 6. Pfeffer wrote ‘Constellationen’, meaning ‘combination of factors’. See letter from Wilhelm Pfeffer, 6 November 1881 and n. 9. CD was experimenting on the roots of Euphorbia (see letter to Francis Darwin, …
To Francis Darwin 4 [June 1881]
Summary
Has taken almost all FD’s corrections for chapter six [of Earthworms]. Is glad FD approves of the book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 4 [June 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13193 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … DAR 211: 80 Charles Robert Darwin Patterdale 4 [June 1881] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 4 [June 1881] …
- … version. See letter from Francis Darwin, [before 4 June 1881] and n. 8. Francis was …
- … 3 June to 4 July 1881 ( Emma Darwin 's diary (DAR 242)). CD and Francis were correcting …
- … Darwin, Francis. 1881b. Ueber Circumnutation bei einem einzelligen Organe. Botanische Zeitung , 29 July 1881, …
- … Francis’s son Bernard Darwin was fond of the paper soldiers that Francis regularly sent him. The letter is written on three separate sheets of paper, the final sheet being a different size from the other two. See letter from James Paget, 1 June 1881 . …
- … Darwin 1881b , pp. 477–8). Francis’s paper appeared in Botanische Zeitung , 29 July 1881; …
To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881
Summary
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 16 and 17 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13159 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … DAR 211: 73 Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 and 17 May 1881 Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881 …
- … found, but see the letter from Francis Darwin, 14 May 1881 and n. 1. CD was waiting for …
- … 251: 1412). See letter from Francis Darwin, 14 May 1881 and n. 9. Ernst Stahl had replaced …
- … the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 18 (1881): 406–19. Darwin, Francis. 1881a. Kletterpflanzen. …
- … See letter from Francis Darwin, 14 May 1881 and n. 7; Francis had mentioned that Julius …
- … Darwin, 14 May 1881 and n. 10. Caroline Wedgwood was CD’s sister. Abba-dubba was a pet name for Francis’ …
- … Darwin 1881a ), was a German translation of a lecture Francis gave in 1880 (see letter from Ernst Krause, 15 May 1881 …
- … 1881. Considérations sur l’étude de la phyllotaxie. Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles 3d ser. 5: 260–87; 358–96. Darwin, Francis. …
- … Darwin was Francis’s son; Francis’s letter to him has not been found. Mary Ann Westwood had been Bernard’s nurse until her marriage in April 1881 …
- … 1881 ) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. CD had evidently just received the second fascicule of Philippe van Tieghem ’s Traité de botanique (Treatise on botany; Tieghem 1884 ); only the first four (of eight) parts, all undated, are in the Darwin Library–CUL. For Tieghem’s remarks on exosmosis, see ibid. , pp. 208–9. Francis …
To Francis Darwin 28 June [1881]
Summary
Comments on FD’s notions about movement of multicellular and unicellular organisms.
Comments on an interesting letter received from J. B. Hannay [see 13222] which leads CD to speculate on the possibility of organisms inhabiting a red hot earth under great pressure.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 28 June [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13225 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … DAR 211: 84 Charles Robert Darwin Patterdale 28 June [1881] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 28 June [1881] …
- … journey home. See letter from Francis Darwin, [19 June 1881] and n. 3. In Insectivorous …
- … See letter from Francis Darwin, [19 June 1881] and n. 4; Francis observed the movement of …
- … 1881, the Darwins visited Glenridding House, Patterdale, in the Lake District from 3 June to 4 July ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). No letter from Francis …
To Francis Darwin [9 July 1881]
Summary
Reports splendid cases of "paraheliotropism" which he now believes is one of the commonest movements of plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [9 July 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13103 |
To Francis Darwin 27 May 1881
Summary
Dispatches chapters six and seven [of Earthworms].
Asks for any opinions on V. Hensen and his book, Physiologie der Zeugung [1881], which seems interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 27 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13179 |
Matches: 4 hits
To Francis Darwin 17 October 1881
Summary
Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".
Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13411 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … DAR 211: 86 Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Oct 1881 Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 17 October 1881 …
- … see, for example, letter from Francis Darwin, 17 June 1881 ). CD’s notes on aggregation of …
- … 6 to 17 October 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Bernard Darwin , Francis’s son, was …
- … Francis was in Wales, visiting his deceased wife’s family (letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [9 October 1881] ( …
To Francis Darwin 26 June [1881]
Summary
Ernst Haeckel wants to go to Ceylon to examine Medusae and Radiolariae, CD has offered him £100.
Is working on revises of Earthworms.
Has seen a pied flycatcher for the first time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 26 June [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13220 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … DAR 211: 83 Charles Robert Darwin Patterdale 26 June [1881] Francis Darwin …
- … To Francis Darwin 26 June [1881] …
- … 1881), pp. lxiii–lxvi). CD had offered £100 in his letter to Haeckel of 25 June 1881 . CD and Francis were revising proof-sheets of Earthworms . The pied flycatcher ( Ficedula hypoleuca) is a summer visitor, found in mature woodlands mainly in the west of Britain. It is a sparrow-sized bird, mostly black above with white underparts. Abba-dubba was a nickname for Francis’s son, Bernard Darwin . …
From Francis Darwin [after 14 November 1881]
Summary
Thanks for two letters from Pfeffer. Will return translation of Pfeffer and send a letter from Elfring. Looking forward to working on "antiWiesner" experiments. Will return on 26th or 27th.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Nov 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13485F |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [after 14 November 1881] …
- … DAR 274.1: 68 Francis Darwin [after 14 Nov 1881] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … family in early October (see letter to Francis Darwin, 17 October 1881 and nn. 1 and 14). …
- … letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 14 November [1881] . CD had sent the letters from …
- … Linnean Society ( Botany ) 18 (1881): 420–55. Darwin, Francis. 1881b. Ueber Circumnutation …
- … ant waste (see letter to Francis Darwin, 28 [October 1881] ). Botanischer Jahresbericht …
- … 1881): 14–15, 24– 5). Williams & Norgate was a London publisher and bookseller specialising in foreign scientific literature. The German translator has not been identified. Bernard Darwin had evidently joined his father in Wales; Francis …
- … Darwin, 19 [May 1881] and n. 3). Ein Esel : a donkey or, figuratively, a fool or idiot (German). CD had the letter from Wilhelm Pfeffer, 6 November 1881 , translated by Camilla Pattrick (see letter to Camilla Pattrick, [after 6 November 1881] ). The letter from Elfving to Francis …
From Francis Darwin [before 4 June 1881]
Summary
Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 4 June 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13192F |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [before 4 June 1881] …
- … DAR 274.1: 75 Francis Darwin Strasbourg [before 4 June 1881] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … between this letter and the letters to Francis Darwin of 30 May [1881] and 4 [June 1881] . …
- … response in the fungus (see also letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] and n. 3). …
- … 29 July 1881, and contained three diagrams (see letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] …
- … appeared (see letter to Francis Darwin, 16 and 17 May 1881 and nn. 6 and 7). Francis had …
- … letter to Francis Darwin, 30 May [1881] ; the letter from Francis’s son, Bernard Darwin , …
- … Darwin, Francis. 1881b. Ueber Circumnutation bei einem einzelligen Organe. Botanische Zeitung , 29 July 1881, …
- … Darwin, 30 May [1881] and n. 4. Eosine and fuchsine were colouring agents mentioned in Cornu and Mer 1878 . William Martindale was a pharmacist in London. Francis …
- … 1881 ( Behrens 1881 ). Francis had also reviewed the book in Nature , 10 February 1881, pp. 333–5. William Benjamin Carpenter was one of the first researchers to explore deep-sea fauna; he wrote reports on the results of a number of dredging voyages (see, for example, Carpenter and Jeffreys 1870 and Carpenter 1872 ). Francis’s paper, ‘ Ueber Circumnutation bei einem einzelligen Organe’ (On circumnutation in a single-cell organ; F. Darwin …
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