From Francis Darwin 2 May 1876
Summary
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10492F |
From Francis Darwin [1 June 1876]
Summary
Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515H |
From Francis Darwin [after 2 October 1876]
Summary
Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 2 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10629F |
From Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10488F |
From Francis Darwin [29 May 1876]
Summary
The Salvia has arrived.
Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.
Cannot do any teazel work.
Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515I |
From Francis Darwin [2 June 1876]
Summary
Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10526F |
From Francis Darwin 27 May 1876
Summary
Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515G |
From Francis Darwin [31 May 1876]
Summary
Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [31 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10517F |
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 |
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 |
To Nature [before 2 November 1876]
Summary
Summarises, with comments, two letters from Johann von Fischer [10598, 10600] on the display by monkeys of their brightly-coloured hindquarters, and the relation of this behaviour to sexual selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 2 Nov 1876] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 2 November 1876, pp. 18–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10660 |
To Francis Darwin 25 September [1876]
Summary
FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10617 |
To Francis Darwin [11 October 1876]
Summary
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10638 |
To Francis Darwin [12 October 1876]
Summary
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10641 |
From A. R. Wallace 7 June 1876
Summary
Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.
Plans to sell his house.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10535 |
To Francis Darwin [1 June 1876]
Summary
Comments on FD’s discovery – "if it so proves". It will be important to see whether the protoplasm oozes through the cell-walls [of Dipsacus] or whether it can be withdrawn.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [1 June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10525 |
To Francis Darwin [28 September 1876]
Summary
Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.
Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10623 |
To ? 3 February 1876
Summary
Sends autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (19 March 2015) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10378 |
To ? 25 February 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Palsbo Ac, sp. 100) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10410 |
To ? 19 May 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (8 June 2013, lot 625) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10510F |
| Darwin, C. R. | (208) |
| Darwin, Francis | (16) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
| Unidentified | (11) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (467) |
| Darwin, Francis | (28) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (28) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (17) |
| Tait, Lawson | (15) |
