To Francis Darwin [after 23 July 1874]
Summary
Asks for a specimen of Pinguicula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [after 23 July 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13796 |
From W. M. Hacon 13 October 1879
Summary
How to bargain on Horace Darwin’s marriage-settlement: Francis received £5000; Horace could receive more as an inducement for the Farrers to increase Ida’s dowry.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12256 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 [June 1874]
Summary
Thanks for letter on Erica tetralix.
Identification of leaves digested by Pinguicula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 27 [June 1874] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9566 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Amy Ruck , identifying as bog pimpernel ( Anagallis tenella ) some of the small leaves that she had sent him stuck to specimens of Pinguicula (butterwort) has not been found; for Thiselton-Dyer’s identification of others as Erica tetralix (cross-leaved heath), see the letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 26 June 1874 . …
To Asa Gray 25 June 1874
Summary
Remarks on his work on Pinguicula. Notes its digestive power; it absorbs nutritious matter from leaves and seeds as well as insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 25 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (108) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9511 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 June 1874
Summary
Did not know cabbage contained so much nitrogen.
Pinguicula more excited by seeds than Drosera. Asks for information about Pinguicula.
Asks name of weed.
Asks to borrow Utricularia plant.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 9 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9486 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 27 July 1874]
Summary
Has been examining Utricularia minor. Same essential structure but catches smaller Entomostraca. One bladder had 24, another 20, and another 15 Entomostraca. "What slaughter! We must make out the functions of the beast––".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 27 July 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9565A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1874] . CD and Francis were studying Utricularia vulgaris (common bladderwort); CD had been trying to acquire other species of the genus (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 July 1874 ). He had just received the specimen of U. minor (lesser bladderwort) from John Price (see letter to John Price, 27 [July 1874] ). Entomostraca was formerly the name used to refer to all crustaceans other than Malacostraca ( Leftwich 1973 ). Francis married Amy Ruck …
To E. A. Darwin 20 September 1873
Summary
Consults about the wisdom of Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant rather than practising medicine.
Outlines his finances.
[Copy in EAD’s hand.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B1–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9060 |
To W. E. Darwin 29 September [1876]
Summary
Discusses the purchase of some land;
plans to visit Southampton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10625 |
From Joseph Fayrer 6 July 1874
Summary
Will do experiments CD suggests.
Is sending his book on the poisonous snakes of India [The Thanatophidia of India (1872)].
| Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9534 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1874] . See letter to Joseph Fayrer, 4 July [1874] and nn. 5 and 6. Fayrer refers to Thomas Lauder Brunton . A new, expanded edition of Fayrer’s book, Thanatophidia of India ( Fayrer 1872 ), was published in February 1874 ( Fayrer 1874 ; see Publishers’ circular , 2 March 1874, p. 138). CD was in London briefly for the wedding of Francis Darwin and Amy Ruck …
To W. M. Hacon 16 April [1874]
Summary
CD’s son Francis is to be married, so CD is seeking advice as to how much he should arrange as a marriage-settlement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C50–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9415 |
To Francis Darwin 16 September [1876]
Summary
Forwards chapter [of Orchids (1877)] for correction.
Sadness at the death of Amy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10604 |
To Anton Dohrn 13 February 1874
Summary
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. Would like to send third son [Francis Darwin] to learn art of observing marine animals.
Health indifferent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 711) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9289 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 24 [June 1874]
Summary
Describes how Pinguicula captures insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 24 [June 1874] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 16–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9562 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 26 June 1874
Summary
Thanks for letter and seeds.
Asks that Hooker return references about plants eating insects.
Discusses Pinguicula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 26 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 14–15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9515 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1876]
Summary
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 423–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10644 |
To Francis Darwin 15 August [1873]
Summary
Observations on bees’ biting holes in Lathyrus.
Suggests an experiment FD could carry out with Drosera.
CD is working on Mimosa, and "everything has turned out as perversely as possible".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9014 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 June [1874]
Summary
Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6405F |
From G. H. Darwin 18 April 1874
Summary
Sends queries [on proofs of Descent, 2d ed.]. Will be finished, except for the index, in two days.
Is now less satisfied than formerly with his statistics on cousin marriage.
[Enclosure is a copy by GHD of J. S. Mill’s statement about Origin (Logic 2: 18 n.).]
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9417 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Amy Ruck . The other members of the Ruck family were Lawrence and Mary Anne Ruck and their children, Arthur Ashley, Laurence Ithel, Oliver Edwal, and Richard Matthews , and a married sister, Mary Elizabeth Atkin . The ‘fiend’ was Laurence Ithel Ruck (see letter from G. H. Darwin, 20 April 1874 ). …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 23 June 1874
Summary
Has found Pinguicula excited by bits of leaves; appears to digest leaves and seeds. Plant not only insectivorous but graminivorous. Asks WTT-D to identify seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 23 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 12–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9508 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 June 1874 . See Insectivorous plants , p. 385. In a note about this experiment dated 16 June 1874, CD concluded that Pinguicula (butterwort) exuded ‘far more secretion from spinach than cabbage’ (DAR 59.1: 56v). In his account of the observations he made on this set of specimens sent by Francis Darwin’s fiancée, Amy Ruck , …
To G. E. Paget 1 August 1874
Summary
Apologises for delay, but is away from home; has sent telegraph.
Francis Darwin is abroad on his honeymoon and unable to respond to GEP’s offer of a medical position.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Edward Paget |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1874 |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Ms Add. 10379) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9580F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter nor CD’s telegraph has been found. CD stayed at Abinger in Surrey from 25 July 1874 and with his son William Erasmus Darwin in Southampton from 30 July to 24 August 1874 ( Correspondence vol. 22, Appendix II). The nature of the offer made to Francis Darwin is not known. He had trained in medicine but was employed as CD’s secretary. He married Amy Ruck …
| letter | (22) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Fayrer, Joseph | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (5) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Fayrer, Joseph | (2) |
