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To Francis Darwin   12 July [1879]

Summary

Notes observations on sensitivity and movement of radicles.

Has finished chapter [of Movement in plants] on sleeping plants and is now looking over heliotropism notes.

Is perplexed by Erasmus Darwin; Erasmus [A. Darwin] likes it, but Henrietta thinks it much too long.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  12 July [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 62
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12152

Matches: 9 hits

From Francis Darwin   [before 17 July 1878]

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Summary

More sleepers from green-house.

Julius Sachs’s view of climbing plants: he distinguishes between nutation to find a support and growth after support is found.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 17 July 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 209.1: 155; DAR 274.1: 50, 52
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11613

Matches: 9 hits

From Francis Darwin   [after 16 June 1879]

Summary

Reports on roots and climbing plants experiments he is performing in Sachs’ laboratory. Orchids with air roots have come. Goebel says proshelic better than helic.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 16 June 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 53
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12111F

Matches: 9 hits

  • … to Francis around 16 June 1879 (see letter to Francis Darwin, 16 June [1879] and n. 5). …
  • … a botanist in Sachs’s laboratory (see letter to Francis Darwin, 16 June [1879] and n. 4). …
  • … See letter to Francis Darwin, 16 June [1879] and n. 8. Francis was working in the …
  • … of the apex to Francis (see letter to Francis Darwin, [before 5 June 1879] and nn. 2 and …
  • … mustard ( Sinapis alba ; see also letter to Francis Darwin, 6 and 7 June [1879] and n. …
  • … 5). See letter to Francis Darwin, 16 June [1879] and n. 2. For CD’s description of the …
  • … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 16 June [1879] . …
  • … Ubbadubba was a pet name for Francis’s son, Bernard Darwin . No letter mentioning the boys …
  • letter to Francis Darwin, 16 June [1879] , in which CD mentions Bernard’s head being full of ‘drums, trumpets & soldiers’. On paper soldiers, see Ryan 1995 . The boys were Bernard’s cousins Walter Stewart George Davenport Atkin and Robert Laurence Atkin (Dor and Robert). Their mother, Mary Elizabeth Atkin , had travelled to Switzerland with Elizabeth Darwin on 17 June 1879; they returned to Down on 18 July 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis

From Francis Darwin   [after 7 July 1878]

Summary

Sleep in Porlieria studied.

Oats begin germinating.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 7 July 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 209.7: 157
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11596

Matches: 7 hits

From Francis Darwin   [after 2 October 1876]

Summary

Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 2 Oct 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10629F

Matches: 6 hits

From Francis Darwin   [21 July 1878]

Summary

Has been investigating nutational movements of climbing plants; comments on the opinions of Julius von Wiesner and Julius Sachs. Remarks on the sleep movements of certain plants and the mechanism of tendril curvature. Is experimenting with Porlieria.

Has visited K. G. Semper’s laboratory.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [21 July 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 162: 59, DAR 209.8: 151
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11623

Matches: 9 hits

To Francis Darwin   25 June [1879]

Summary

Suggests experiments to test the response of radicles to light. Considers an alternative term for heliotropism.

Will be curious to have FD’s spiral theory about circumnutation explained to him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  25 June [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 56
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12122

Matches: 8 hits

To Francis Darwin   25 July [1878]

Summary

Is forwarding the writing machine to Carl Semper.

Is glad FD has taken up his old friends, the twiners.

Hopes to get heliotropic aerial roots from J. D. Hooker. Asks FD to find out whether any moulds or roots are apheliotropic. Is puzzled by heliotropism in subterranean roots.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  25 July [1878]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11631

Matches: 10 hits

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

Matches: 5 hits

  • … 1871] and n.  5. The annotations are for CD’s letter to Francis Darwin, 21 May [1871] . …
  • … St George’s Hospital, London (see first letter from Francis Darwin, [after 22 May 1871] ). …
  • … H.  Darwin, [14 May 1871] ). See letter to Francis Darwin, 16 May [1871] . See letter from …
  • … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 16 May [1871] . …
  • Francis was hoping to travel to the United States in the summer with his brother George Howard Darwin and two friends (see letter

To Francis Darwin   2 July [1879]

Summary

Stresses importance of ensuring that cauterisation of radicles does not, through injury, prevent movement. Plans an experiment to test for "apheliotropism" in certain radicles.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  2 July [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12133

Matches: 6 hits

  • … in the roots of this species (see letter to Francis Darwin, 6 and 7 June [1879] and n. …
  • … 5, and letter from Francis Darwin, [after 16 June 1879] and n. 4). CD was …
  • … one from his silver fir branches (see letter to Francis Darwin, 25 June [1879] and n. 7). …
  • … were still apheliotropic (see letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 June 1879 ). …
  • … the term ‘Sachs’ curvature’, see the letter to Francis Darwin, 16 June [1879] , n. 8. CD …
  • … of ‘aphelic’ would be ‘aphelism’ (see letter to Francis Darwin, 25 June [ 1879] and n. 6). …

To Francis Darwin   30 July [1878]

Summary

Comments on function of bloom.

Describes the effect of water shortage on sleep movements in Porlieria.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  30 July [1878]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11635

Matches: 9 hits

  • … See the letter from Francis Darwin, 24 and 25 July 1878 , reporting being unwell and also …
  • … did not support this view (see letter from Francis Darwin, 24 and 25 July 1878 and n. 1). …
  • … as the one from Kew (see letter from Francis Darwin, [after 7 July 1878] and n. 3). …
  • … may be a reference to the missing letter from Francis Darwin (see n. 2, above). CD did not …
  • … stomata open to breathe (see letter from Francis Darwin, 24 and 25 July 1878 ). Émile Mer …
  • … Mer 1876 , pp. 257–8). See letter from Francis Darwin, 24 and 25 July 1878 . Plants of …
  • … relationship between this letter and the letter from Francis Darwin, 24 and 25 July 1878 . …
  • letter from Francis, with the impudent beginning, has not been found. Hugo de Vries was working in Sachs’s laboratory in Würzburg. The Darwins
  • letter to Hugo de Vries, [15] August [1878] ). Sachs had shown Francis the fruit of Helvingia ruscifolia (a synonym of Helwingia ruscifolia ); Francis had suggested that the petals, which closed over the carpel, might be covered with bloom because they acted like a part of the fruit (see letter from Francis Darwin, [ …

To Francis Darwin   28 June [1879]

Summary

Discusses the movements of radicles. His observations show that sensitivity to touch resides in the root tip and he believes that sensitivity to gravity governing geotropic responses is also in the root tip. Would much like to convert Julius von Sachs to his ideas on radicle movement.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  28 June [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 59
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12128

Matches: 6 hits

From Francis Darwin   [before 5 December 1870]

Summary

Sends list of bills.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 5 Dec 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7387G

Matches: 4 hits

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: 8 hits

  • … See letter to Francis Darwin, 16 and 17 May 1881 . No correspondence between Francis and …
  • … for example, Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 June …
  • … the mycelium of a fungus (see letter from Francis Darwin, 14 May 1881 and n. 7). Francis …
  • … of the sinking of a ship (see letter to Francis Darwin, 16 and 17 May 1881 and n. 11). …
  • … see Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Francis Darwin, 29 May 1879 ). Elfving was the …
  • … relationship between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 16 and 17 May 1881 . …
  • Francis described the special rotation apparatus designed by Horace Darwin that allowed him to observe clearly the circumnutation of the sporangium. In his letter
  • Francis had mentioned meeting Oskar Schmidt in his letter of 14 May 1881 . Kneipe : pub, bar (German). Bernard Darwin

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: 8 hits

  • … contained three diagrams (see letter from Francis Darwin, 19 [May 1881] and n. 4). Francis …
  • … 4 [June 1881] . See letter to Francis Darwin, 30 May [ …
  • … 19 [May 1881] and n. 3). See letter to Francis Darwin, 30 May [1881] and n. 4. Eosine and …
  • … of which had recently appeared (see letter to Francis Darwin, 16 and 17 May 1881 and nn. 6 …
  • … relationship between this letter and the letters to Francis Darwin of 30 May [1881] and …
  • … 1881] ; the letter from Francis’s son, Bernard Darwin , has not been found. Francis had …
  • 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, …
  • 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, …

From Francis Darwin   [29 May 1876]

Summary

The Salvia has arrived.

Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.

Cannot do any teazel work.

Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [29 May 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 58
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10515I

Matches: 6 hits

  • … 1876 , and the letter to Francis Darwin, 30 [May 1876] ; see n. 2, below. When Francis …
  • … expecting had not yet arrived (see letter from Francis Darwin, 27 May 1876 and n. 1). In …
  • … Francis to look for orchids (see letter from Francis Darwin, 27 May 1876 ). CD referred to …
  • … his observations to CD (see letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] ). His research was …
  • … by the relationship between this letter, the letter from Francis Darwin, 27 May  …
  • letter from Moritz Schiff, 8 May 1876 and nn. 6 and 9). In his paper on the subject, Francis noted that in the early stages of the process of aggregation the aggregated masses were extremely motile but in a strongly aggregated condition the masses become motionless ( F. Darwin 1876b , p. 314; see also F. Darwin 1877b , p. 266). Francis

From Francis Darwin   [25–7 November 1878]

Summary

He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [25–7 Nov 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11768H

Matches: 6 hits

  • … creeping wood sorrel) (see letter from Francis Darwin, [before 22 November 1878] and n. …
  • … 3. ) See also letter from Francis Darwin, [23 November 1878] . CD planned …
  • … on 25 or 26 November 1878 (see letter to Francis Darwin, [22 November 1878] , and letter …
  • … Frankland (see n. 7, below). See letter from Francis Darwin, [before 22 November 1878] and …
  • … n. 2, and letter to Francis Darwin, [22 November 1878] . William Ogle’s translation of …
  • letter to William Ogle, 17 August 1878 . Francis gave a lecture on 9 December 1878 at the London Institution titled ‘Self-defence among plants’ (see letter to Francis Darwin, [ …

From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin   30 June 1879

Summary

Last night had tremendous thunderstorm. Will ask Goebel about proshelismus. Describes experiments on beans. Please send Bessy’s address. Has got to know nice Englishman named Purdy and his wife. Bathes nearly every night with the Finlander.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  30 June 1879
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12128F

Matches: 9 hits

  • … George Davenport Atkin (see letter from Francis Darwin, [after 16 June 1879] and n. 6). …
  • … and away from the sun (see letter to Francis Darwin, 25 June [1879] and n. 6). Karl …
  • … bean) and Vicia (vetch; see letter from Francis Darwin, [before 26 June 1879] ). He was …
  • … on Porliera (a synonym of Porlieria ), see letter to Francis Darwin, 16 June [1879] and n. …
  • … 3. See letter to Francis Darwin, 24 June [1879] . CD had asked Francis to touch a cell (of …
  • … Albert Bernhard Frank , see the letter from Francis Darwin, 29 May 1879 . Elizabeth Darwin …
  • … in Sachs’s laboratory (see letter from Francis Darwin, [after 2 June 1879] and n. 3). …
  • letter from G. H. Darwin, 24 June 1879 and nn. 2 and 3). Ubbadubba was a pet name for Francis’ …
  • Francis and his brother George Howard Darwin visited Norway in August 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The American has not been identified. ‘Axles’ was evidently a family word used to refer to unresolved work-related issues (see also Correspondence vol. 26, letter

To Francis Darwin   14 July [1878]

Summary

Asks for list of families of sleeping plants. Believes sleep is merely modified circumnutation at a particular time of day.

Porlieria has had no water for some time but shows no sign of flagging.

Describes the response of Thalia flowers to touch.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  14 July [1878]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 35, 36, 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11608

Matches: 6 hits

  • … list of species that slept (see letters from Francis Darwin , [after 7 July 1878] and [12  …
  • … indoors (see n. 3, above). See letter from Francis Darwin, [12 July 1878] . Gossypium is …
  • … like the one CD owned ( letter from Francis Darwin, [12 July 1878] ). Horace Darwin had …
  • … the differences in behaviour (see letter to Francis Darwin, [after 7 July 1878] and n. 3). …
  • … powery alligator-flag), see the letter to Francis Darwin, 7 [July 1878] , the letters to …
  • … journal Nature to Francis (see letter to Francis Darwin, 7 [July 1878] and n. 5). Horace …

From Francis Darwin   [23 November 1878]

Summary

Many thnks for the pelargonium letter.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [23 Nov 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 43
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11755F

Matches: 6 hits

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