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DCP-LETT-11014F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:
[c. 24 June 1877]
Source of text:
Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Summary:

CD has written to [Charles] Wyville Thomson in favour of PPCH’s request [for duplicates of Pycnogonida collected by the Challenger expedition], and hopes it will be successful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11152

From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 199.5: 100
Summary:

Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11216A

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Warren Maude Moorsom
Date:
29 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 146: 385b
Summary:

His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11239

From:
Henry Jackson
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 209.11: 260
Summary:

Nomenclature for kinds of heliotropism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11254

From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 393
Summary:

SB’s book [Life and habit (1878)] will be bound shortly. He will send two copies, one of which can be given to CD. To SB’s surprise it has turned out to be an attack on CD’s views and a defence of Lamarck; describes how he was brought to the opinions expressed in it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11277

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman
Date:
12 Dec 1877
Source of text:
Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS 58)
Summary:

Writes for CD, thanking TFC for his pamphlet on Selliera. CD was so interested that he ventured to forward it to Nature for publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11302

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 21
Summary:

Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11302F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 45
Summary:

FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 [June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 22
Summary:

Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].

Is working too hard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11312A

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Thomas Alva Edison
Date:
[20–9 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
Thomas Edison National Park (Edison Document File, 1878 Folder: (D-78-02) Edison, T.A. – General)
Summary:

His father asks him to thank TAE for sending the curious case of the insects [see 11271].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11400

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 394
Summary:

Thanks ASW for Aegilops seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11418

From:
Anton Stecker
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 250
Summary:

Will publish Origin first

and then Descent.

AS is looking for a job in a zoological museum or accompanying an expedition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11429F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Anton Stecker
Date:
17 Mar 1878
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Sends father’s regrets that CD will not be able to help Stecker as appointments are few in number and much sought after.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11445

From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 196
Summary:

Suggests movements of sensitive plants may protect against insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11453

From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 197
Summary:

JIR’s "theory" of sensitive plants published in an anonymous letter he sent to the Field 2½ years ago. Mechanisms for protection against insects in sensitive plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[11 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 23
Summary:

Julius von Sachs will "swear & curse" when he finds out he has missed sensitiveness of root apex. Has been putting his notes together and the case is conclusive. [Dated "Saturday 10th" by CD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11504F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 47
Summary:

Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
15 [July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 24
Summary:

A report has arrived for FD which CD will forward.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11523F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Date:
[before 24 May 1878]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 206)
Summary:

Regrets that the arrangement to visit Down must be for Friday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11538

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[13–26 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 26
Summary:

Has had conflicting information on the movement of radicles; wants FD to experiment with them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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