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:
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
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:
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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
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:
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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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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:
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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:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 June? 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 3
Summary:
Forwards letters.
Contributor:
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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
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
From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 199.5: 100
Summary:
Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Warren Maude Moorsom
Date:
29 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 146: 385b
Summary:
His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Jackson
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 209.11: 260
Summary:
Nomenclature for kinds of heliotropism.
Contributor:
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From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 393
Summary:
SB’s book [Life and habit (1878)] will be bound shortly. He will send two copies, one of which can be given to CD. To SB’s surprise it has turned out to be an attack on CD’s views and a defence of Lamarck; describes how he was brought to the opinions expressed in it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 394
Summary:
Thanks ASW for Aegilops seed.
Contributor:
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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:
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Correspondent
- Butler, Samuel (b)3
- Darwin, Amy2
- Darwin, C. R.169
- Darwin, Elizabeth1
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, Francis
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, H. E.5
- Darwin, Horace3
- Darwin, Leonard2
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Galton, Francis1
- Garrod, A. H.1
- Greaves, E. A.1
- Hadley, E. A.1
- Jackson, Henry1
- Krause, Ernst1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Martindale, William1
- Moorsom, W. M.1
- Rogers, J. I.4
- Ruck, Amy2
- Stecker, Anton1
- Tait, Lawson1
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- Wilson, A. S.1
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