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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.

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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.

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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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DCP-LETT-11575

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 June] 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 181
Summary:

Sleep of Porlieria hygrometrica seems independent of light.

Will have lots of time for oats. W. F. P. Pfeffer’s point is that there is no growth in sleepers with joints. A. F. Batalin says there is a slight growth.

[Dated Saturday 28th by FD.]

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DCP-LETT-11593F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 57
Summary:

He has been talking to Julius von Sachs about sleeping plants that move with and without growth.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11596

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.7: 157
Summary:

Sleep in Porlieria studied.

Oats begin germinating.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11604

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.1: 156–7, DAR 209.14: 88
Summary:

Chlorophyll development in oat seedling.

Lists the sleeping plants he has seen.

Julius Sachs thinks Hugo de Vries has not cleared up everything [about climbing plants]. But Sachs has not worked on the mechanical problem.

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DCP-LETT-11553F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 48
Summary:

Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11613

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.1: 155; DAR 274.1: 50, 52
Summary:

More sleepers from green-house.

Julius Sachs’s view of climbing plants: he distinguishes between nutation to find a support and growth after support is found.

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DCP-LETT-11623

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 59, DAR 209.8: 151
Summary:

Has been investigating nutational movements of climbing plants; comments on the opinions of Julius von Wiesner and Julius Sachs. Remarks on the sleep movements of certain plants and the mechanism of tendril curvature. Is experimenting with Porlieria.

Has visited K. G. Semper’s laboratory.

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