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DCP-LETT-10604

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 10
Summary:

Forwards chapter [of Orchids (1877)] for correction.

Sadness at the death of Amy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10611

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
20 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 11
Summary:

Suggests German works worth translating.

Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10617

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 12
Summary:

FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10621

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
27 [Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 13
Summary:

Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.

Has some articles that might interest FD.

Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10623

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 14
Summary:

Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.

Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10629

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 15
Summary:

Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].

Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10635

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
8 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 16
Summary:

Sends an article for FD.

Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[11 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 17
Summary:

Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10641

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[12 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 18
Summary:

Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10762

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. Dec 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 28
Summary:

Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10765

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10752

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 20 Mar 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 19
Summary:

Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10995

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[10 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 20
Summary:

Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him

and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11270

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

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-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-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-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-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

DCP-LETT-11564

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 23 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 28
Summary:

Can send FD twisted branches of some climbing plants if he wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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