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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1)
Summary:

Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 45
Summary:

Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.

Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.

Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.

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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
13 [Sept 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 46
Summary:

Asks what position the sub-peduncles assume when the main flower peduncle of Oxalis is tied so as to be horizontal.

Asks whether FD can find some plants at Kew for CD to trace epinastic and hyponastic movements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
John Clarke (Clarke) Hawkshaw
Date:
[before 18 Apr 1878]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (27 March 2019, lot 160)
Summary:

FD reports that CD thinks CH’s observations on limpets worth publishing (Hawkshaw 1878).

Marlborough Robert Pryor of Weston Park, Stevenage, is an admirable naturalist, especially concerning limpets.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[21 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 47
Summary:

Instructs FD to make some observations on movement in Trifolium and Impatiens. Sends some seeds to be sown.

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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[22 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 48
Summary:

Suggests experiment to detect salts deposited on surface of leaves.

Wants FD to have another go at horse-chestnut radicles.

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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 52
Summary:

Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 51
Summary:

Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project