To Francis Darwin 26 June [1881]
Summary
Ernst Haeckel wants to go to Ceylon to examine Medusae and Radiolariae, CD has offered him £100.
Is working on revises of Earthworms.
Has seen a pied flycatcher for the first time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 26 June [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13220 |
To Francis Darwin 17 October 1881
Summary
Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".
Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13411 |
To Francis Darwin 14 November [1881]
Summary
Forwards a letter from W. F. P. Pfeffer, who opposes some of Julius Wiesner’s notions on plant movements.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13485 |
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 [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 [25–7 November 1878]
Summary
He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25–7 Nov 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11768H |
From Francis Darwin [before 30 June 1872]
Summary
A. H. Garrod on relationship of heart-beat to amount of work done by heart.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 30 June 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8365 |
From Francis Darwin [16 or 17 August 1873]
Summary
Gives his opinion on why tubes of peas split to the right of the loose stamens [inLathyrus sylvestris].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 or 17 Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 140–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9012 |
From Francis Darwin 1 and 2 May [1875]
Summary
Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird’s Six months in the Sandwich Islands.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 and 2 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9961F |
From Francis Darwin [4 May 1875]
Summary
Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 May 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9961G |
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 [before 22 November 1878]
Summary
Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Nov 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11754F |
From Francis Darwin [after 28 February 1878]
Summary
He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Feb 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11754G |
From Francis Darwin [after 4 March 1871]
Summary
Very glad about profits of book. Glad CD flummoxed Mivart.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 4 Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7564F |
From Francis Darwin [after 22 May 1871]
Summary
Explains about the attendance at St George’s hospital that is required for the MB examaminations, and how this would affect plans for a trip to north America.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22 May 1871] |
| Classmark: | Philip Trevelyan (private collection) DAR 274.1: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7765G |
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 |
To Francis Darwin 16 June [1879]
Summary
Has given his reasons for believing that twisting of stem is related to circumnutation in Climbing plants.
Tells results of experiments on movement of cotyledons and radicles.
Is getting aerial heliotropic roots from Kew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12111 |
To Francis Darwin 28 July [1880]
Summary
Thanks FD for criticisms [of Movement in plants]. J. D. Hooker was interested in the observations of movement in Desmodium.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 28 July [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12672 |
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