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]
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 |
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