From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin [before 30 May 1872]
Summary
Sends drawings of dogs in different attitudes, drawn by his friend A. May. FD should not trouble CD unless he thinks the drawings will please him. [See Expression, pp. 54–5.]
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 May 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: A6–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8305 |
From Francis Darwin [after August 1872?]
Summary
Sends quotation from Armand Trousseau, Lectures on clinical medicine [1868–72] 5: 213, on interruption of menstruation in young girls upon changing schools, as an example of the effect of changed conditions of life.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Aug 1872?] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13795 |
From Francis Darwin [before 22 August 1872]
Summary
Sutton says monkeys often vomit, but cannot say whether they do it voluntarily.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 Aug 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.3: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5556 |
To Francis Darwin 6 January 1872
Summary
Asks FD questions about his sketch [missing] of ridges and furrows. [FD’s answers are interlined.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8147 |
To Francis Darwin 13 May [1872]
Summary
Will FD try to persuade A. D. Bartlett to show a live snake to a porcupine and observe whether the porcupine rattles the quills on its tail? [See 8333.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 13 May [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8325 |
From Francis Darwin [before 30 June 1872]
Summary
Quickening of heart-beat in fear. A. H. Garrod does not think that this means that the heart is working harder.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 June 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8364 |
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 A. H. Garrod to Francis Darwin 30 June [1872]
Summary
Sends an account of an attempt to take a sphygmograph tracing of a woman during fright
and some references that might apply to CD’s work on pulse rates during rage and fright.
Author: | Alfred Henry Garrod |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 30 June [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8399 |
letter | (8) |
Darwin, Francis | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
Garrod, A. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (4) |