To Francis Darwin 8 [June? 1868]
Summary
A cheque written out for FD has never been presented to CD’s bankers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 8 [June? 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5769 |
To Francis Darwin 30 August [1867–70]
Summary
Asks FD to check whether a Latin sentence is correct.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug [1867-70] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7312 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9199 |
To Francis Darwin? [1879–80?]
Summary
Discusses A. B. Frank’s views [Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie (1868)] on how plants position themselves; differences and similarities compared with their own conclusions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [1879–80?] |
| Classmark: | DAR LIB 2003/2004 (in box with A. B. Frank, Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie, 1868, and Die natürliche wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen, 1870) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11816 |
From Francis Darwin [after 8 October 1876]
Summary
Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10635F |
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, [18 July 1868] (DAR 245: 296). CD’s notes on bees and Lathyrus maritimus observed at Shanklin have not been found. The specimens that Francis …
- … Francis Darwin, 14 August [1873] and n. 3 Bombus lapidarius is the red-tailed bumble-bee. Lathyrus odoratus is pollinated in its native habitat by leafcutter bees ( Megachile spp. ). In Cross and self fertilisation , pp. 155–6, CD described the activity of B. lapidarius in sucking nectar without depressing the keel. CD stayed at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight in July and August 1868; …
From Francis Darwin 14 May 1881
Summary
News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13155F |
From Francis Darwin 29 May 1879
Summary
Fungus is an Aecidium. Porliera, Anthuriums and Aroids will hopefully sprout if weather gets hot. Sachs has changed his ideas about the cause of heliotropism. Describes men he is sharing a lab with.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12067F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, Francis. 1920b. The story of a childhood . Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. Frank, Albert Bernhard. 1868. …
- … 1868 ). Leonard Temple Thorne . Chara is a genus of stoneworts (an order of green algae); Marchantia is a genus of liverworts; Vaucheria is a genus of yellow-green algae. Herr Merkens has not been identified. None of the letters from Emma Darwin , Elizabeth Darwin , or George Howard Darwin have been found. Ubbadubba was a pet name for Francis’ …
From Francis Darwin [before 7 July 1878]
Summary
He has been talking to Julius von Sachs about sleeping plants that move with and without growth.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11593F |
From Francis Darwin [28 May 1876]
Summary
Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 37–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515J |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Darwin, [31 May 1876] , which suggests that Francis last worked on teasel on Sunday; in 1876, the Sunday before 31 May was 28 May. Johannes von Hanstein had suggested that resinous matter (named ‘metaplasm’ by him) was formed in the cells of glands from disintegrating protoplasm, and that this metaplasm was secreted from the cells by means of blister-like cavities that burst to allow accumulated matter to escape ( Hanstein 1868 , …
To Francis Darwin 2 July [1878]
Summary
Suggests FD call on Carl Semper.
Inquires about Porlieria: Do the leaves shut to check evaporation? Does it appear silver under water?
Explains how he thinks the pulvinus acts; wishes FD would investigate the point.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11586 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1868–1916, vols. 1 and 3). Francis Maitland Balfour was lecturer on animal morphology at Cambridge University . CD had asked Joseph Dalton Hooker whether he could borrow a plant of Porlieria hygrometrica from Kew ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 July 1878 ). Francis had described the plant as almost always being asleep ( letter from Francis Darwin, [ …
From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin [after 16 October 1868]
Summary
Has been working with G. R. Crotch on stridulation. The sexual theory seems very shaky.
Is sending preparations of beetles.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [after 16 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A96–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5761 |
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| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
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