To Francis Darwin 3 June [1879]
Summary
Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.
Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 3 June [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11541 |
To A. S. Wilson 4 [June] 1879
Summary
Mentions wheat varieties sent by Governor General of Turkestan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 4 [June] 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 366 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11820 |
To John Fiske 14 June [1879]
Summary
Will send carriage to station on 18th.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 14 June [1879] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8266) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11828 |
From Francis Darwin [after 2 June 1879]
Summary
Geotropism.
Experimenting on Porlieria in damp and dry earth.
Hermann Müller has been ridiculed for teaching children "in the beginning was Carbon".
Will ask about Ernst Krause.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 2 June 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.5: 230–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12075 |
To Francis Darwin [2 June 1879 or earlier]
Summary
Wants FD to find out what sort of man Ernst Krause is.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1879 or earlier] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12076 |
To H. B. Wheatley 1 June 1879
Summary
Requesting a volume of the Philosophical Transactions said to contain two papers by Erasmus Darwin, also a third paper if it can be found.
Requesting parts or volume of the Philosophical Transactions due to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Benjamin Wheatley |
Date: | 1 June 1879 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 146) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12076F |
To John Murray 2 June 1879
Summary
Intends to publish a translation of Ernst Krause’s essay on Dr Erasmus Darwin, with a prefatory notice by himself. Asks JM to decide whether to publish it on commission or on usual two-thirds profit terms. CD incapable of judging chance of its selling.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 2 June 1879 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 356–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12078 |
To Francis Darwin 2 June [1879]
Summary
Thanks for FD’s letter describing microscopic work under experienced supervision.
Is glad to hear of C. E. Stahl’s objection to treating plants as mere machines.
Pleased that J. von Sachs has yielded on growth.
Perhaps Stahl will recognise whether the case of the silver fir is the same as that referred to in the German account [see 12074b].
CD has finished the first draft of his essay on Erasmus Darwin’s life and is "heartily sick of the job".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 2 June [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12078A |
From Nicolai Mengden 3 June 1879
Summary
Thanks for reply to query. Asked E. Haeckel same question and his answer agreed with CD’s. Haeckel disbelieves in the supernatural. What does CD think?
Author: | Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12079 |
From John Murray 3 June [1879]
Summary
Is well disposed toward publishing Krause’s essay on Dr Erasmus Darwin, particularly if CD undertakes to fill up its gaps. He thinks ED’s reputation is increasing.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 June [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12080 |
To G. S. Ffinden 4 June 1879
Summary
Does not feel competent to judge on matters of measurement. R. B. Litchfield to look into case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
Date: | 4 June 1879 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.564) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12081 |
To K. P. von Kaufman 4 June 1879
Summary
Thanks for letter of 27 April (Julian calendar; 9 May Gregorian calendar), and promised gift of wheat varieties. Will probably send them to Alexander Stephen Wilson.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (Константин Петрович фон Кауфман) |
Date: | 4 June 1879 |
Classmark: | National Library of Russia (Collection of P. Waxell (F. 965): no 636) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12081F |
From Raphael Meldola 4 June 1879
Summary
Wants to republish Fritz Müller’s paper ["Ituna and Thyridia", Kosmos 5 (1879): 100–8] in Proceedings of the Entomological Society. [Thyridita!?]
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12082 |
From W. S. Dallas 4 June 1879
Summary
Has finished the first part of Krause’s MS [of Erasmus Darwin]. Expects to receive the concluding portion soon.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 107–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12083 |
To Francis Darwin [before 5 June 1879]
Summary
Believes that he will prove that the tip of radicle is the brain as far as geotropism is concerned.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [before 5 June 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12084 |
From V. H. Darwin 5 June [1879]
Author: | Violetta Harriot Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12085 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 5 June 1879
Summary
Has been writing life of Erasmus Darwin.
Wants plants with heliotropic aerial roots. Has proved root apex governs nature of flexure in upper part of root.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 5 June 1879 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 173–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12086 |
To Ernst Krause 5 June 1879
Summary
Has read Dallas’ translation of first part of EK’s essay [on Erasmus Darwin]. Has sent his MS to printer. Is perplexed by duplication. Thinks EK’s essay is better than his. Wishes he had sent all his material to him for a single biography. Best plan may be for EK to incorporate whatever he thinks useful in CD’s material.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 5 June 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36186) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12087 |
To Nicolai Mengden 5 June 1879
Summary
NvM’s questions cannot be answered fully. "Science has nothing to do with Christ, except in so far as the habit of scientific research makes a man cautious in admitting evidence. For myself, I do not believe that there has ever been any Revelation."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden |
Date: | 5 June 1879 |
Classmark: | David W. Bowerman (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12088 |
To ? 5 June 1879
Summary
Unable to accept invitation.
Looked at leaves and saw no sign that animal matter was absorbed. Believes insects were caught only accidentally.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 June 1879 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (5 December 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12089 |
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Darwin, Francis | (4) |
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Galton, Francis | (2) |
Krause, Ernst | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Darwin, Francis | (11) |
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Krause, Ernst | (3) |
Darwin, Horace | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (63) |
Darwin, Francis | (15) |
Galton, Francis | (5) |
Krause, Ernst | (5) |
Meldola, Raphael | (4) |