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DCP-LETT-8715F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 6
Summary:

Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8942F

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9009F

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9012

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].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9016

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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9059F

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9092F

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9095F

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9115

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26? Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 209.2: 21–2
Summary:

Observations on the leaves of Desmodium. Most are trifoliate; none has tendrils. Gives some comments from Hooker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9198

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Mar 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 132
Summary:

Fears [CD’s] albumen theory will not work because albumen is coagulated and filtered out in making extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamine, and colchicine [alkaloid poisons].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9199

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Mar 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 133
Summary:

Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9791F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 28
Summary:

Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9803F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[after 6 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/8)
Summary:

Asks DO to return enclosed post-card with locality of Genlisea aurea specimen that DO had sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9961F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 and 2 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 31
Summary:

Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird’s Six months in the Sandwich Islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9961G

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 May 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 34
Summary:

Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12128F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
30 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 49
Summary:

Last night had tremendous thunderstorm. Will ask Goebel about proshelismus. Describes experiments on beans. Please send Bessy’s address. Has got to know nice Englishman named Purdy and his wife. Bathes nearly every night with the Finlander.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 22a)
Summary:

Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.

Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10402

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 39–40)
Summary:

Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.

On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10765

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
2 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.503)
Summary:

Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.

Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11270

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.527)
Summary:

Discusses planting onions for experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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