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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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.

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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:
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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:
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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.

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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 199.5: 100
Summary:

Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Jackson
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 209.11: 260
Summary:

Nomenclature for kinds of heliotropism.

Contributor:
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From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 393
Summary:

SB’s book [Life and habit (1878)] will be bound shortly. He will send two copies, one of which can be given to CD. To SB’s surprise it has turned out to be an attack on CD’s views and a defence of Lamarck; describes how he was brought to the opinions expressed in it.

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From:
Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 219
Summary:

Accepts CD’s offer of £50 for portrait of Erasmus Darwin.

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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:
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From:
Anton Stecker
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 250
Summary:

Will publish Origin first

and then Descent.

AS is looking for a job in a zoological museum or accompanying an expedition.

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From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 196
Summary:

Suggests movements of sensitive plants may protect against insects.

Contributor:
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From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 197
Summary:

JIR’s "theory" of sensitive plants published in an anonymous letter he sent to the Field 2½ years ago. Mechanisms for protection against insects in sensitive plants.

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