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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11302

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 21
Summary:

Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 [June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 22
Summary:

Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].

Is working too hard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[11 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 23
Summary:

Julius von Sachs will "swear & curse" when he finds out he has missed sensitiveness of root apex. Has been putting his notes together and the case is conclusive. [Dated "Saturday 10th" by CD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
15 [July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 24
Summary:

A report has arrived for FD which CD will forward.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11538

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[13–26 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 26
Summary:

Has had conflicting information on the movement of radicles; wants FD to experiment with them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11541

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 25
Summary:

Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.

Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11559

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 June [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 27
Summary:

Has been observing the movements of leaves and cotyledons; sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation. Reports some odd observations on movement in Oxalis species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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