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DCP-LETT-10156F

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:
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DCP-LETT-10287F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 29
Summary:

Sends Linnean papers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10287G

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 33
Summary:

Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10362F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 30
Summary:

[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10488F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 24
Summary:

Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10492F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 23
Summary:

Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10515G

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 25
Summary:

Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10515H

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 4
Summary:

Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10515I

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 58
Summary:

The Salvia has arrived.

Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.

Cannot do any teazel work.

Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10515J

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 37–8
Summary:

Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10517F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 1
Summary:

Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10520F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 22
Summary:

Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10526F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 39
Summary:

Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10629F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 40
Summary:

Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10635F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 36
Summary:

Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10762F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 June? 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 3
Summary:

Forwards letters.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10994F

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:
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DCP-LETT-10178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[31 Aug 1875 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 13
Summary:

Sends proofs of Variation [2d ed.] for FD to look over.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10485B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[30 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 10
Summary:

CD has just had an interview with Edward Frankland, who "almost laughs" at FD’s idea of getting potash and soda out of the soil by treating it with sulphuric acid. Asks FD to send him a soil sample to give to Frankland. Sends enclosures giving address and labels for soil samples.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10489A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 5
Summary:

Expresses his pride in FD, whose article ["On the structure of the snail’s heart", J. Anat. Physiol. 10 (1876): 506–10] was highly praised by G. H. Lewes.

Lewes has also been quoting FD’s letter in Nature [13 (1876): 384–5] on pycrotoxine in relation to the vivisection controversy.

Was introduced to James Sully, author of the article in Mind on Wilhelm Wundt ["Physiological psychology in Germany", 1 (1876): 20–43]

and Sensation and intuition (1874) [see 10320], by "Mrs Lewes" (George Eliot).

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