skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search Results

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
"Darwin Francis" in search-correspondent disabled_by_default
292 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: Prev  1 2 3 4 5   ...  Next

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

To Francis Darwin   [before 22 July 1876]

thumbnail

Summary

Asks FD to write on his behalf and say that he is unwilling to join a deputation [on vivisection] and that he believes in the need to protect physiology as well as lower animals.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [before 22 July 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10747

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   [c. December 1876]

Summary

Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [c. Dec 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 153: 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10762

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 to G. N. de Stoppelaar    25 April 1877

Summary

Sends thanks for diploma on CD’s behalf.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar
Date:  25 Apr 1877
Classmark:  Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10940F

From Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes   7 June 1877

Summary

CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.

CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  7 June 1877
Classmark:  Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10989F

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

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 Francis Darwin to P. P. C. Hoek   [c. 24 June 1877]

Summary

CD has written to [Charles] Wyville Thomson in favour of PPCH’s request [for duplicates of Pycnogonida collected by the Challenger expedition], and hopes it will be successful.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:  [c. 24 June 1877]
Classmark:  Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11014F

From Francis Darwin to W. M. Moorsom   29 October 1877

Summary

His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Warren Maude Moorsom
Date:  29 Oct 1877
Classmark:  DAR 146: 385b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11216A

From Francis Darwin to T. F. Cheeseman   12 December 1877

Summary

Writes for CD, thanking TFC for his pamphlet on Selliera. CD was so interested that he ventured to forward it to Nature for publication.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Frederick Cheeseman
Date:  12 Dec 1877
Classmark:  Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS 58)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11277

To Francis Darwin   [1878?]

Summary

Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [1878?]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11302

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   5 [June 1878]

Summary

Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].

Is working too hard.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  5 [June 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11303

From Francis Darwin to Thomas Edison   [20–9 December 1877]

Summary

His father asks him to thank TAE for sending the curious case of the insects [see 11271].

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Alva Edison
Date:  [20–9 Dec 1877]
Classmark:  Thomas Edison National Park (Edison Document File, 1878 Folder: (D-78-02) Edison, T.A. – General)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11312A

From Francis Darwin to A. S. Wilson   4 March 1878

Summary

Thanks ASW for Aegilops seed.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:  4 Mar 1878
Classmark:  DAR 148: 394
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11400

From J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin   25 March 1878

Summary

Suggests movements of sensitive plants may protect against insects.

Author:  John Innes Rogers
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  25 Mar 1878
Classmark:  DAR 176: 196
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11445

From J. I. Rogers to Francis Darwin   29 March 1878

Summary

JIR’s "theory" of sensitive plants published in an anonymous letter he sent to the Field 2½ years ago. Mechanisms for protection against insects in sensitive plants.

Author:  John Innes Rogers
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  29 Mar 1878
Classmark:  DAR 176: 197
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11453
Page: Prev  1 2 3 4 5   ...  Next