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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-10770F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Auckland Star
Date:
4 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Auckland Star , 1 March 1877, p. 2
Summary:

His father is grateful for the account of the alleged discovery of men with tails.

His father does not believe in their existence of the tailed men, although the tails may be an inherited monstrosity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10940F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar
Date:
25 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen)
Summary:

Sends thanks for diploma on CD’s behalf.

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-10989F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 June 1877
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5)
Summary:

CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.

CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.

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-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-11014F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:
[c. 24 June 1877]
Source of text:
Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Summary:

CD has written to [Charles] Wyville Thomson in favour of PPCH’s request [for duplicates of Pycnogonida collected by the Challenger expedition], and hopes it will be successful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11302F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 45
Summary:

FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11216A

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Warren Maude Moorsom
Date:
29 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 146: 385b
Summary:

His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.

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-11277

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman
Date:
12 Dec 1877
Source of text:
Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS 58)
Summary:

Writes for CD, thanking TFC for his pamphlet on Selliera. CD was so interested that he ventured to forward it to Nature for publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11312A

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Thomas Alva Edison
Date:
[20–9 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
Thomas Edison National Park (Edison Document File, 1878 Folder: (D-78-02) Edison, T.A. – General)
Summary:

His father asks him to thank TAE for sending the curious case of the insects [see 11271].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11754G

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

DCP-LETT-11400

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 394
Summary:

Thanks ASW for Aegilops seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11429F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Anton Stecker
Date:
17 Mar 1878
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Sends father’s regrets that CD will not be able to help Stecker as appointments are few in number and much sought after.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11711F

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

DCP-LETT-11504F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 47
Summary:

Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11523F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Date:
[before 24 May 1878]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 206)
Summary:

Regrets that the arrangement to visit Down must be for Friday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12131F

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
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