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DCP-LETT-12075

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 209.5: 230–2
Summary:

Geotropism.

Experimenting on Porlieria in damp and dry earth.

Hermann Müller has been ridiculed for teaching children "in the beginning was Carbon".

Will ask about Ernst Krause.

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DCP-LETT-12111F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 16 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 53
Summary:

Reports on roots and climbing plants experiments he is performing in Sachs’ laboratory. Orchids with air roots have come. Goebel says proshelic better than helic.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12126F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 55
Summary:

Discusses results of geotropism experiment. Has started some heliotropic caustic experiments on mustard roots. Has trouble making marks.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12128F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
30 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 49
Summary:

Last night had tremendous thunderstorm. Will ask Goebel about proshelismus. Describes experiments on beans. Please send Bessy’s address. Has got to know nice Englishman named Purdy and his wife. Bathes nearly every night with the Finlander.

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