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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 70
Summary:

News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 72
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 [May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 66
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project