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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
22 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 29
Summary:

CD sends words that he is too busy to work on the Drosera RLT has sent. CD also regrets that the fluid on virgin pitchers of Nepenthes was not tested with white of egg. Until that is done, he doubts whether physiologists would admit the presence of the ferment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 29
Summary:

Sends Linnean papers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 33
Summary:

Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 30
Summary:

[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 24
Summary:

Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 23
Summary:

Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 25
Summary:

Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 4
Summary:

Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 58
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 37–8
Summary:

Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 1
Summary:

Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 22
Summary:

Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 39
Summary:

Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
8 June 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Asks about constituents of burnt soil.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 40
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 36
Summary:

Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Horace Pearce
Date:
24 Nov 1876
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (27 May 2007, lot 590)
Summary:

Explains how they look after Drosera plants.

Encloses his father’s autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project