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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

DCP-LETT-11541

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 25
Summary:

Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.

Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11545

From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 198
Summary:

Suggests sensitive plants that close at night would be protected from nocturnal-feeding snails. JIR’s brother in India says snails occur there in abundance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11553F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 48
Summary:

Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11559

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 June [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 27
Summary:

Has been observing the movements of leaves and cotyledons; sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation. Reports some odd observations on movement in Oxalis species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11564

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 23 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 28
Summary:

Can send FD twisted branches of some climbing plants if he wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
26 June [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 29–30
Summary:

Asks questions related to movement in plants. The cotyledons of Oxalis offer a promising field for study.

Wonders why Julius von Sachs thinks bloom is a protection against insects.

Encloses notes on the cotyledons of Oxalis species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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