From Francis Darwin [before 4 June 1881]
Summary
Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13192F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … three diagrams (see letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] and n. 4). Francis did …
- … See letter to Francis Darwin, 30 May [1881] ; the letter from Francis’s son, Bernard …
- … and n. 3). See letter to Francis Darwin, 30 May [1881] and n. 4. Eosine and fuchsine were …
- … between this letter and the letters to Francis Darwin of 30 May [1881] and 4 [June 1881] . …
- … had recently appeared (see letter to Francis Darwin, 16 and 17 May 1881 and nn. 6 and 7). …
- … letter from Elfving has not been found, but may have been on the subject of Elfving’s observation of an avoidance response in the fungus (see also letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] …
- … letter of 14 May 1881 . He had earlier told CD about other researchers who found Sachs difficult to work with (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Francis Darwin, …
To Francis Darwin 22–3 May 1881
Summary
Is sending chapter [of Earthworms] for FD to look over.
Comments on FD’s work on movements of mould.
Is glad to hear about Julius von Sachs and the circumnutation theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 22–3 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Goltz and Oskar Schmidt at the meeting. See letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] . …
- … See letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] ; Francis had described the long hours kept …
- … under a bower. ) )See letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] and nn. 3 and 4. Francis …
- … September 1881. See letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] and n. 7. Wortmann reported …
- … Francis, ‘The theory of the growth of cuttings’ ( F. Darwin 1880b ), published in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ), April 1881. Ernst Krause ’s summary of Movement in plants , written under his pseudonym, Carus Sterne, appeared in Die Gartenlaube in April 1881 ( Sterne 1881a ; see letter …
- … Francis’s article, ‘On the power possessed by leaves of placing themselves at right angles to the direction of incident light’ ( F. Darwin 1880a ), which was published in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ), June 1881. CD also sent proof-sheets of Earthworms and the journal Nature . No letter …
From Francis Darwin 19 [May 1881]
Summary
Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfving. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD’s protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 [May 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13166F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … mycelium of a fungus (see letter from Francis Darwin, 14 May 1881 and n. 7). Francis had …
- … See letter to Francis Darwin, 16 and 17 May 1881 . No correspondence between Francis and …
- … sinking of a ship (see letter to Francis Darwin, 16 and 17 May 1881 and n. 11). Francis …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 16 and 17 May 1881 . …
- … Francis had mentioned meeting Oskar Schmidt in his letter of 14 May 1881 . Kneipe : pub, bar (German). Bernard Darwin …
- … letter from Francis Darwin, 29 May 1879 ). Elfving was the first researcher to describe an autochemotropic (avoidance) response in the sporophore of the fungus Phycomyces nitens . His paper ‘En obeaktad känslighet hos Phycomyces’ (An unobserved sensitivity in Phycomyces; Elfving 1881 ) …
- … 1881; it included three diagrams tracing the movement of a sporophore of P. nitens . Francis described the special rotation apparatus designed by Horace Darwin that allowed him to observe clearly the circumnutation of the sporangium. In his letter …
From Francis Darwin [21 October 1881]
Summary
Commiserates on news of Wiesner and experiment on transmission of heliotropism. Asks whether he should review book for Nature.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13474F |
To Francis Darwin [after 27 May 1881]
Summary
Thanks FD for corrections [for Earthworms].
Discusses experiments on absorption in Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [after 27 May 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13181 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … fourth chapter of Earthworms on 23 May 1881 ( letter to Francis Darwin, 22–3 May 1881 ). …
- … starving plants (see letter from Francis Darwin, 23 [May 1881] and nn. 7 and 8). Philippe …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 27 May 1881 . CD and Francis were …
- … letter to Francis of 27 May 1881 . In a description of the visit, Richter noted that CD had told him that Francis played the bassoon ( Richter 1882 , p. 498). Bernard Darwin …
To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881
Summary
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 and 17 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13159 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … been found, but see the letter from Francis Darwin, 14 May 1881 and n. 1. CD was waiting …
- … botanical journal. See letter from Francis Darwin, 14 May 1881 and n. 7; Francis had …
- … part) of a fungus. See letter from Francis Darwin, 14 May 1881 and n. 10. Caroline …
- … 1880 ; DAR 251: 1412). See letter from Francis Darwin, 14 May 1881 and n. 9. Ernst Stahl …
- … Darwin 1881a ), was a German translation of a lecture Francis gave in 1880 (see letter from Ernst Krause, 15 May 1881 …
- … Darwin was Francis’s son; Francis’s letter to him has not been found. Mary Ann Westwood had been Bernard’s nurse until her marriage in April 1881 …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 12 November [1881]
Summary
Progress of his and Frank Darwin’s work; "all natural science seems now to depend on section-cutting".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1881] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: ff. 228–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13480 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Straßburg (Strasbourg; see letter from Francis Darwin, 14 May 1881 ). Section cutting is a …
- … in Wales to Down ( letter from Francis Darwin, [21 October 1881]) . Walter Gardiner was …
- … in his letter of 27 October 1881 ; see also letter to Francis Darwin, 28 [October 1881] . …
- … letters to J. D. Hooker, 22 October 1881 and 30 October 1881 . See also letter to Francis Darwin, 9 November [1881] …
To Francis Darwin 22 [October 1881]
Summary
Thinks FD should review Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. CD comforted that Wiesner’s experiments support their findings but finds it laughable how differently he has interpreted them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 22 [Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13422 |
To Francis Darwin 30 May [1881]
Summary
CD looks forward with dread to future as he does not have the strength to begin any new subject requiring much work.
Plans to look again at the absorption by roots and root-hairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13184 |
From Francis Darwin [after 14 November 1881]
Summary
Thanks for two letters from Pfeffer. Will return translation of Pfeffer and send a letter from Elfring. Looking forward to working on "antiWiesner" experiments. Will return on 26th or 27th.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 Nov 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13485F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … family in early October (see letter to Francis Darwin, 17 October 1881 and nn. 1 and 14). …
- … ant waste (see letter to Francis Darwin, 28 [October 1881] ). Botanischer Jahresbericht …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 14 November [1881] . …
- … letters from Wilhelm Pfeffer , 24 October 1881 and 6 November 1881 . Pfeffer had criticised Julius Wiesner ’s recent work on plant movement ( Wiesner 1881 ; see letter from Wilhelm Pfeffer, 6 November 1881 and nn. 3 and 4). Francis had met Fredrik Elfving in 1879 at the laboratory in Würzburg headed by Julius Sachs (see letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] …
To Francis Darwin 25 May [1881]
Summary
Sends further chapters of Earthworms for correction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 25 May [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13174 |
From Francis Darwin 23 [May 1881]
Summary
Would like some of his notes. Has been looking at roots of Linum, cucurbits, larch, and orchids. Is content that mother should teach Bernard whatever religion she likes.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 [May 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … May 1881 was 23 May. See letter to Francis Darwin, 20 May 1881 ; CD and Francis had begun …
- … sheets had arrived at Down on 22 May 1881 (see letter to Francis Darwin, 22– 3 May 1881 ). …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 20 May 1881 . The Monday following …
- … letter from F. A. Tscherning, 6 May 1881 and nn. 1 and 3). The proof-sheets were for Francis’s article ‘On the power possessed by leaves of placing themselves at right angles to the direction of incident light’ ( F. Darwin …
To Francis Galton 18 [December 1881]
Summary
Can FG call on Monday evening?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 18 [Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13560 |
To G. J. Romanes [17 December 1881]
Summary
Asks him to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | [17 Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.578) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12382 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 6 June 1881]
Summary
Has accepted FD’s correction to chapter seven [of Earthworms].
Weather is bad; sky like lead and the lake as black as ink.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 6 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13194 |
To G. J. Romanes 17 [December 1881]
Summary
Asks him to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 17 [Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.606) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13556 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Henry Huxley on 18 December 1881 ( letter to Francis Darwin, [18 December 1881]) . Andrew …
- … letter and the letter to G. J. Romanes, 10 December [1881] . See letter to G. J. Romanes, 10 December [1881] and n. 5. The Darwins were in London from 13 to 20 December 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD had gone to visit Romanes on 16 December 1881, but as Francis …
To J. V. Carus 18 May 1881
Summary
Ernst Krause wishes to publish a section of Earthworms in Kosmos. CD has consented. Hopes JVC will not object. He feels under obligation to Krause.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 18 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 187–188) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13164 |
To J. V. Carus 29 June 1881
Summary
CD will soon finish corrections [of Earthworms] for printer, and then clean sheets will be sent to JVC for translation of the book and to Ernst Krause. The subject has been a "hobby-horse" with CD, and he has perhaps treated it in foolish detail. Has told Krause he does not think any part of the MS suitable for Kosmos, but Krause must decide.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 29 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 189–190) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13227 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 8 July 1881?]
Summary
A stock certificate has arrived for FD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 8 July 1881?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 82v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13186 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (73) |
| Darwin, Francis | (15) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Müller, Fritz | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (48) |
| Darwin, Francis | (19) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Krause, Ernst | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (121) |
| Darwin, Francis | (34) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (9) |
| Krause, Ernst | (7) |
