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DCP-LETT-12084

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 5 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 53
Summary:

Believes that he will prove that the tip of radicle is the brain as far as geotropism is concerned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12085

From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 171
Summary:

Sends her drawing of Elston Hall as it was in 1754.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
5 June 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36186)
Summary:

Has read Dallas’ translation of first part of EK’s essay [on Erasmus Darwin]. Has sent his MS to printer. Is perplexed by duplication. Thinks EK’s essay is better than his. Wishes he had sent all his material to him for a single biography. Best plan may be for EK to incorporate whatever he thinks useful in CD’s material.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
Date:
5 June 1879
Source of text:
David W. Bowerman (private collection)
Summary:

NvM’s questions cannot be answered fully. "Science has nothing to do with Christ, except in so far as the habit of scientific research makes a man cautious in admitting evidence. For myself, I do not believe that there has ever been any Revelation."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
5 June 1879
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 173–4)
Summary:

Has been writing life of Erasmus Darwin.

Wants plants with heliotropic aerial roots. Has proved root apex governs nature of flexure in upper part of root.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12089

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 June 1879
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (5 December 2013)
Summary:

Unable to accept invitation.

Looked at leaves and saw no sign that animal matter was absorbed. Believes insects were caught only accidentally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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