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DCP-LETT-9106

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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DCP-LETT-9110

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9218

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 12
Summary:

Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.

Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9219A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1875 or later?]
Source of text:
CUL, Darwin Pamphlet Collection R112
Summary:

Asks FD to make out [Hermann] Hoffmann’s conclusions about the fertilisation of Phaseolus multiflorus [in Untersuchungen zur Bestimmung des Werthes von Species und Varietät (1869)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9219B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 8
Summary:

Begs FD’s pardon: his notes on Utricularia amethystina are on same page with those on U. nelumbifolia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9534G

From:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 59.1: 71
Summary:

Information about insects on Pinguicula leaves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9565A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 27 July 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 7
Summary:

Has been examining Utricularia minor. Same essential structure but catches smaller Entomostraca. One bladder had 24, another 20, and another 15 Entomostraca. "What slaughter! We must make out the functions of the beast––".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9958B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 9
Summary:

Sends a chapter [of Insectivorous plants]. Never was there anything so dull, but later chapters will be better. Please correct an error on p. 86.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 153
Summary:

Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.

Contributor:
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