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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 6
Summary:

"Try only 1 or 2 drops of Formic A[cid]."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 7
Summary:

Fears all the seeds are dead. Will try with less vapour of formic acid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
15 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 8
Summary:

Observations on bees’ biting holes in Lathyrus.

Suggests an experiment FD could carry out with Drosera.

CD is working on Mimosa, and "everything has turned out as perversely as possible".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 [Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 9; DAR 271.4: 1
Summary:

Pollination and floral structure of Lathyrus. Asks where bees bite through the flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[4 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.9: 2
Summary:

Asks FD to bring any book that gives the affinities of the various earths, alkalis and metals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1873
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873-8 f.1)
Summary:

Asks for details about microscope parts.

Wants FD to ask Hooker for species of Desmodium; CD believes he has found new movements.

Also ask whether Hooker has Drosophyllum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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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:
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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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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
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:
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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
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
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
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:
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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
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 June 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 35
Summary:

Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Sept 1875 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 32
Summary:

Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15–18 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 5
Summary:

FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project