From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 26
Summary:
Has found Lathyrus maritima on the cliffs near Barmouth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 or 17 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 140–1
Summary:
Gives his opinion on why tubes of peas split to the right of the loose stamens [inLathyrus sylvestris].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 142–3
Summary:
Regrets that "our brush theory" is wrong.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15–18 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 5
Summary:
FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 7
Summary:
Reports that S. W. Moore may be able to provide various substances for CD’s research on the digestive power of Drosera (sundew).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Sept 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 27
Summary:
He is travelling overnight by train from London to Pantlludw and will wake A. R. Ruck with a morningade on his flute.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 9
Summary:
Has got a cold, so will not go to Kew. Wrote to Hartnack about price of microscopes and describes own model. Told Hooker about Tisley Spiller’s microscope in Paris.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26? Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 209.2: 21–2
Summary:
Observations on the leaves of Desmodium. Most are trifoliate; none has tendrils. Gives some comments from Hooker.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin; Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 139–40
Summary:
Describe the Pinguicula species found at Mürren. Have found seeds on some. Their large roots seem to indicate that they do not get much animal food.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 28
Summary:
Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[after 6 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/8)
Summary:
Asks DO to return enclosed post-card with locality of Genlisea aurea specimen that DO had sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 and 2 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 31
Summary:
Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird’s Six months in the Sandwich Islands.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 May 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 34
Summary:
Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 June 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 35
Summary:
Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
22 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 29
Summary:
CD sends words that he is too busy to work on the Drosera RLT has sent. CD also regrets that the fluid on virgin pitchers of Nepenthes was not tested with white of egg. Until that is done, he doubts whether physiologists would admit the presence of the ferment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Sept 1875 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 32
Summary:
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 33
Summary:
Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 29
Summary:
Sends Linnean papers.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 30
Summary:
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 22a)
Summary:
Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.
Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].
Contributor:
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