From Francis Darwin [before 4 June 1881]1
Dear Father
Many thanks for your letter & for Dubbas.2 I enclose a nice letter from Elfving which will interest you; it is very nice of him immediately to tell me something he is at & has not published—3
I will try & find out about eosin & fuchsin, I remember the paper; both those you could get from Martindale4
I spoke to deBary & he seemed to think protoplasm must have been dead but I think it was seen to move coloured.5 Wortmann says deBary thinks Van Tieghem a humbug as did Stahl also, almost dishonest I fancy6 de Bary is not a bit like Sachs in the way of thinking every body fools.7
The scientific public seems to feel H Müllers Alpen blumen like Carpenter Deep Sea, de Bary says he must take several years rest before he reads it there have been so many notices of it mostly be Müller himself.8
I want to know whether you think the false circumnutation produced by the clock worth publishing. It wont be published for a month so I have time but should like to know what you think; I think I shall publish the paper in a shorter form with much fewer diagrams than as I wrote it out: I don’t feel satisfied with so many of the diagrams—9
I am tired so goodbye | Yr affec | F. D.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Behrens, Wilhelm. 1881. [Review of Alpenblumen by Hermann Müller.] Kosmos 8 (1880–1): 480–4.
Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1872. Report on scientific researches carried on during the months of August, September, and October, 1871, in H.M. Surveying ship ‘Shearwater’. [Read 13 June 1872.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 20 (1871–2): 535–644.
Carpenter, William Benjamin and Jeffreys, John Gwyn. 1870. Report on the deep-sea researches carried on during the months of July, August, and September 1870, in H.M. Surveying-ship ‘Porcupine’. [Read 8 December 1870.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 19 (1870–1): 146–221.
Cornu, Maxime and Mer, Émile. 1878. Recherches sur l’absorption des matières colorantes par les racines. In Comptes rendus sténographiques du Congrès international de botanique et d’horticulture tenu à Paris du 16 au 24 août 1878. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale.
Darwin, Francis. 1881b. Ueber Circumnutation bei einem einzelligen Organe. Botanische Zeitung, 29 July 1881, pp. 473–80.
Müller, Hermann. 1881a. Alpenblumen, ihre Befruchtung durch Insekten: und ihre Anpassungen an dieselben. Leipzig: W. Engelmann.
Tieghem, Philippe van. 1884. Traité de botanique. Paris: F. Savy.
Summary
Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13192F
- From
- Francis Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Strasbourg
- Source of text
- DAR 274.1: 75
- Physical description
- ALS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13192F,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13192F.xml