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DCP-LETT-10611

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
20 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 11
Summary:

Suggests German works worth translating.

Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10617

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 12
Summary:

FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10621

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
27 [Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 13
Summary:

Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.

Has some articles that might interest FD.

Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10623

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 14
Summary:

Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.

Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10629

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 15
Summary:

Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].

Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10629F

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

DCP-LETT-10635

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
8 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 16
Summary:

Sends an article for FD.

Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10635F

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

DCP-LETT-10638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[11 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 17
Summary:

Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10641

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[12 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 18
Summary:

Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10687F

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

DCP-LETT-10747

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 22 July 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 40
Summary:

Asks FD to write on his behalf and say that he is unwilling to join a deputation [on vivisection] and that he believes in the need to protect physiology as well as lower animals.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10752

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 20 Mar 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 19
Summary:

Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10762

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. Dec 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 28
Summary:

Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10762F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 June? 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 3
Summary:

Forwards letters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10770F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Auckland Star
Date:
4 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Auckland Star , 1 March 1877, p. 2
Summary:

His father is grateful for the account of the alleged discovery of men with tails.

His father does not believe in their existence of the tailed men, although the tails may be an inherited monstrosity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10940F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar
Date:
25 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen)
Summary:

Sends thanks for diploma on CD’s behalf.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10989F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 June 1877
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5)
Summary:

CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.

CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10994F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 2
Summary:

Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10995

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[10 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 20
Summary:

Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him

and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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