From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25–7 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 41
Summary:
He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 60
Summary:
Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 59
Summary:
Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 54
Summary:
Fungus is an Aecidium. Porliera, Anthuriums and Aroids will hopefully sprout if weather gets hot. Sachs has changed his ideas about the cause of heliotropism. Describes men he is sharing a lab with.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 209.5: 230–2
Summary:
Geotropism.
Experimenting on Porlieria in damp and dry earth.
Hermann Müller has been ridiculed for teaching children "in the beginning was Carbon".
Will ask about Ernst Krause.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 16 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 53
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 55
Summary:
Discusses results of geotropism experiment. Has started some heliotropic caustic experiments on mustard roots. Has trouble making marks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
30 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 49
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 51
Summary:
Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.3: 334
Summary:
Heliotropism nomenclature. Apheliotropic mustard roots grow more quickly in dark. Measures growth with microscope as S. H. Vines did in mould. Studying air roots.
FD’s and Stahl’s negative opinion of Sachs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 61
Summary:
Pressure paralyses the streaming of protoplasm in the hairs of Tradescantia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 31 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 56
Summary:
Discusses Müller-Thurgau’s work on heliotropism. Will start on Thursday for Heidelberg and Strassburg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
23 Oct 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36217)
Summary:
CD thanks Krause for the errata.
CD is sorry to hear that Krause’s part will not appear in the French edition, and cannot believe that C.-F. Reinwald would be influenced by antagonism to the Germans. Reinwald always gives CD a small percentage on sales, and CD had intended to pass it on to EK.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
[29 Oct 1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36218)
Summary:
Encloses a letter from CD to C.-F. Reinwald for EK to read, and if he approves, to send on.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 61
Summary:
Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 62
Summary:
Will stay until London until after the Linnean Society meeting unless CD wants anything. Asks to send abstracts of papers. Has made short abstracts of papers for Nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25–7 May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 65
Summary:
Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 63
Summary:
Thanks for letter and journals. Sends information on earthworms and also information from Mr Ruck. Describes his fishing and his success finding sea shore plants that are new to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 or 12 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 64
Summary:
Sorry he forgot the gardener’s address. Having a very nice time in Cambridge, and is almost finished the bramble paper. Drawing room is upside down, so living in Horace’s working room and dining room. Greek question was lost in the Senate House. George dined there last night. Too muddy to bicycle. Has some stuff for spectacles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
26 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43)
Summary:
Indications on the movement of flowers.
It is not customary to recommend someone for membership of the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Correspondent
- Auckland Star1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Cheeseman, T. F.1
- Darwin, A. E.1
- Darwin, Amy1
- Darwin, C. R.99
- Darwin, Elizabeth1
- Darwin, Emma4
- Darwin, Francis137
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, H. E.5
- Darwin, Horace5
- Darwin, Leonard2
- Darwin, Sara1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Edison, T. A.1
- Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer1
- Gilbert, J. H.1
- Hawkshaw, Clarke1
- Heckel, Édouard1
- Higginson, T. W.1
- Hoek, P. P. C.1
- King, George1
- Krause, Ernst3
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Meldola, Raphael1
- Moorsom, W. M.1
- Oliver, Daniel1
- Pearce, Horace1
- Romanes, G. J.3
- Ruck, Amy1
- Sedgwick, Sara1
- Stecker, Anton1
- Stoppelaar, G. N. de1
- Tait, Lawson2
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.2
- Unidentified1
- Wedgwood, Emma2
- Wedgwood, K. E.1
- Wilson, A. S.1
- FEWER