From Francisco de Arruda Furtado 13 June 1881
Summary
Offers his services to CD as an observer in the Azores. Has studied the local natural history and is a great disciple of CD’s.
| Author: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 114b, 114c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13203 |
From Francisco de Arruda Furtado 29 July 1881
Summary
Many thanks for CD’s advice and suggestions. His letter is a great source of encouragement.
| Author: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 114a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13258 |
From Francisco de Arruda Furtado 17 August 1881
Summary
Has been collecting on the mountain summits and wants someone with whom to communicate about plants.
| Author: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 114d |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13289 |
From Francisco de Arruda Furtado 16 October 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for sending Wallace’s book [see 13313]
and for writing to Hooker about FdeAF’s plants. Has written to Hooker to tell him of the plants he is sending and discuss the subject of the cypress trunks.
Thanks CD for his detailed instructions for suggested experiments.
| Author: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0032) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13407 |
From Francisco de Arruda Furtado 22 October 1881
Summary
Reports having found orthopteran egg-cases, affixed to a chalk statuette, that had themselves been coated with chalk, without doubt by the insect that deposited them.
| Author: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0036) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13423 |
From Francisco de Arruda Furtado 21 November 1881
Summary
The statues on which the egg-cases were found were perfectly clean and had never been painted.
Reports on fossilised leaf-prints he has found on the island. Found no seeds or land shells at the site.
| Author: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 181/39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13500 |
