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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 26 June 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 5
Summary:

Sends FD £5 for the loan of his microscope.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 6
Summary:

Sends to Pantlludw [North Wales] bottle of formic acid. FD and Amy [Darwin] can search for spawn. If found, keep in two basins and add 6 drops of acid to one and look for differences.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 6
Summary:

"Try only 1 or 2 drops of Formic A[cid]."

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 7
Summary:

Fears all the seeds are dead. Will try with less vapour of formic acid.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
15 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 8
Summary:

Observations on bees’ biting holes in Lathyrus.

Suggests an experiment FD could carry out with Drosera.

CD is working on Mimosa, and "everything has turned out as perversely as possible".

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 [Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 9; DAR 271.4: 1
Summary:

Pollination and floral structure of Lathyrus. Asks where bees bite through the flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[4 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.9: 2
Summary:

Asks FD to bring any book that gives the affinities of the various earths, alkalis and metals.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1873
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873-8 f.1)
Summary:

Asks for details about microscope parts.

Wants FD to ask Hooker for species of Desmodium; CD believes he has found new movements.

Also ask whether Hooker has Drosophyllum.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 10
Summary:

Lists observations he would like FD to make on the dried species of Desmodium at Kew.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 11
Summary:

Wants FD to look at the little lateral leaflets of Desmodium. CD has "a wild hypothesis that the little leaflets may be tendrils reconverted into leaflets".

Contributor:
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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:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 11
Summary:

Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.

Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–15 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 10
Summary:

Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn’t suit him. May go to Pryor’s on Sunday.

Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 27
Summary:

He is travelling overnight by train from London to Pantlludw and will wake A. R. Ruck with a morningade on his flute.

Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 26
Summary:

Has found Lathyrus maritima on the cliffs near Barmouth.

Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 or 17 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 140–1
Summary:

Gives his opinion on why tubes of peas split to the right of the loose stamens [inLathyrus sylvestris].

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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 142–3
Summary:

Regrets that "our brush theory" is wrong.

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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 7
Summary:

Reports that S. W. Moore may be able to provide various substances for CD’s research on the digestive power of Drosera (sundew).

Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 June 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 8
Summary:

Has discussed with E. E. Klein about the purchase of a Hartnack microscope from Paris.

Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 9
Summary:

Has got a cold, so will not go to Kew. Wrote to Hartnack about price of microscopes and describes own model. Told Hooker about Tisley Spiller’s microscope in Paris.

Contributor:
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