From Francis Darwin [before 21 May 1877]
Summary
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 21 May 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520F |
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
From Francis Darwin 11 June 1877
Summary
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10994F |
From Francis Darwin [28 October 1877?]
Summary
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302F |
To Francis Darwin [c. 20 March 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 20 Mar 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10752 |
To Francis Darwin [10 June 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [10 June 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10995 |
From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin 24 September 1877
Summary
Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 199.5: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11152 |
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- … R. A. ed. 1908. Essays on life, art and science by Samuel Butler . London: A. C. Fifield. Variation 2d ed. : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. …
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 5 December 1877
Summary
Discusses planting onions for experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.527) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11270 |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 2 January [1877]
Summary
Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.
Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.503) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10765 |
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| Darwin, Francis | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | [X] |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
