DCP-LETT-7421
Summary
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7421 |
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 16 May 1871]
Summary
He is waiting to hear about the requirements for the MB examination before considering the possible trip to north America.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 16 May 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7761F |
From Francis Darwin [after 22 May 1871]
Summary
Thanks for the cheque, and also for the offer to pay for him to go on a trip to north America with G. H. Darwin.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22 May 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7761G |
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: | DAR 274.1: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7765G |
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 Francis Darwin [1873]
Summary
Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8713F |
From Francis Darwin [1–15 March 1873]
Summary
Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn’t suit him. May go to Pryor’s on Sunday.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1–15 Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8714F |
From Francis Darwin [after 1871?]
Summary
Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8715F |
From Francis Darwin [30 September 1873]
Summary
He is travelling overnight by train from London to Pantlludw and will wake A. R. Ruck with a morningade on his flute.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Sept 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8942F |
From Francis Darwin 14 August [1873]
Summary
Has found Lathyrus maritima on the cliffs near Barmouth.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9009F |
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 [25 August 1873]
Summary
Regrets that "our brush theory" is wrong.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 142–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9016 |
From Francis Darwin [19 September 1873]
Summary
Reports that S. W. Moore may be able to provide various substances for CD’s research on the digestive power of Drosera (sundew).
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Sept 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059F |
From Francis Darwin [before 26 June 1873]
Summary
Has discussed with E. E. Klein about the purchase of a Hartnack microscope from Paris.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 26 June 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9092F |
From Francis Darwin [11 October 1873]
Summary
Has got a cold, so will not go to Kew. Wrote to Hartnack about price of microscopes and describes own model. Told Hooker about Tisley Spiller’s microscope in Paris.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Oct 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9095F |
From Francis Darwin [26? October 1873]
Summary
Observations on the leaves of Desmodium. Most are trifoliate; none has tendrils. Gives some comments from Hooker.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26? Oct 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.2: 21–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9115 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Fears [CD’s] albumen theory will not work because albumen is coagulated and filtered out in making extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamine, and colchicine [alkaloid poisons].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9198 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9199 |
| letter | (130) |
| Darwin, Francis | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Horace | (2) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (2) |
| Darwin, Amy | (1) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, Sara | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Ruck, Amy | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Sara | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (98) |
| Krause, Ernst | (3) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Tait, Lawson | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (130) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (102) |
| Krause, Ernst | (3) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
