From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 10
Summary:
Forwards chapter [of Orchids (1877)] for correction.
Sadness at the death of Amy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
20 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 11
Summary:
Suggests German works worth translating.
Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 12
Summary:
FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
27 [Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 13
Summary:
Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 14
Summary:
Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.
Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 15
Summary:
Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].
Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
8 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 16
Summary:
Sends an article for FD.
Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[11 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 17
Summary:
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[12 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 18
Summary:
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 22 July 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 40
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 20 Mar 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 19
Summary:
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. Dec 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 28
Summary:
Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[10 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 20
Summary:
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 22a)
Summary:
Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.
Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 39–40)
Summary:
Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.
On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
2 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.503)
Summary:
Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.
Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.527)
Summary:
Discusses planting onions for experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 June 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 35
Summary:
Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Sept 1875 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 32
Summary:
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15–18 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 5
Summary:
FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project