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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)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1004

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Francis
Date:
[after 21 September 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

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-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-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-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-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-10687F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Horace Pearce
Date:
24 Nov 1876
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (27 May 2007, lot 590)
Summary:

Explains how they look after Drosera plants.

Encloses his father’s autograph.

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.]

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