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
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:
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:
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:
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
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
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
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 June] 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 181
Summary:
Sleep of Porlieria hygrometrica seems independent of light.
Will have lots of time for oats. W. F. P. Pfeffer’s point is that there is no growth in sleepers with joints. A. F. Batalin says there is a slight growth.
[Dated Saturday 28th by FD.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 57
Summary:
He has been talking to Julius von Sachs about sleeping plants that move with and without growth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.7: 157
Summary:
Sleep in Porlieria studied.
Oats begin germinating.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.1: 156–7, DAR 209.14: 88
Summary:
Chlorophyll development in oat seedling.
Lists the sleeping plants he has seen.
Julius Sachs thinks Hugo de Vries has not cleared up everything [about climbing plants]. But Sachs has not worked on the mechanical problem.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.1: 155; DAR 274.1: 50, 52
Summary:
More sleepers from green-house.
Julius Sachs’s view of climbing plants: he distinguishes between nutation to find a support and growth after support is found.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–7 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 57
Summary:
Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 152
Summary:
Sachs jumps to the conclusion twiners and tendrils are similar from the Menispermum that twined without a stick. Akebia grows down a stick; not only the free end is involved.
Sleeping plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Sept 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 44
Summary:
He has been working hard at Kew for two days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 42
Summary:
Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 46
Summary:
He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 43
Summary:
Many thnks for the pelargonium letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25–7 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 41
Summary:
He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 60
Summary:
Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project