From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1879 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 51
Summary:
Wants FD to find out what sort of man Ernst Krause is.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 15
Summary:
Thanks for FD’s letter describing microscopic work under experienced supervision.
Is glad to hear of C. E. Stahl’s objection to treating plants as mere machines.
Pleased that J. von Sachs has yielded on growth.
Perhaps Stahl will recognise whether the case of the silver fir is the same as that referred to in the German account [see 12074b].
CD has finished the first draft of his essay on Erasmus Darwin’s life and is "heartily sick of the job".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
2 June 1879
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 356–7)
Summary:
Intends to publish a translation of Ernst Krause’s essay on Dr Erasmus Darwin, with a prefatory notice by himself. Asks JM to decide whether to publish it on commission or on usual two-thirds profit terms. CD incapable of judging chance of its selling.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
