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 |
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- … against slugs, if there are any in the tropics: and in a lesser degree against animals …
From Francis Darwin [before 17 July 1878]
Summary
More sleepers from green-house.
Julius Sachs’s view of climbing plants: he distinguishes between nutation to find a support and growth after support is found.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 17 July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.1: 155; DAR 274.1: 50, 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11613 |
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- … the plants were positioned. Geotropism is tropic or directional movement in response to …
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| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Rogers, J. I. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Rogers, J. I. | (1) |
Alfred Russel Wallace
Summary
Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … field naturalists of his day, with unsurpassed knowledge on tropic flora, fauna, and native peoples. …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Movement in Plants
Summary
The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … begun to produce aerial roots. Darwin had hoped to study the tropic movements of such roots, but …
