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:
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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:
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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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 25
Summary:
Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.
Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.
Contributor:
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From:
Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 152
Summary:
Thanks for reply to query. Asked E. Haeckel same question and his answer agreed with CD’s. Haeckel disbelieves in the supernatural. What does CD think?
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B11
Summary:
Is well disposed toward publishing Krause’s essay on Dr Erasmus Darwin, particularly if CD undertakes to fill up its gaps. He thinks ED’s reputation is increasing.
Contributor:
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 107–8
Summary:
Has finished the first part of Krause’s MS [of Erasmus Darwin]. Expects to receive the concluding portion soon.
Contributor:
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 137
Summary:
Wants to republish Fritz Müller’s paper ["Ituna and Thyridia", Kosmos 5 (1879): 100–8] in Proceedings of the Entomological Society. [Thyridita!?]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 [June] 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 366
Summary:
Mentions wheat varieties sent by Governor General of Turkestan.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 and 7 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 211: 54
Summary:
Describes his experiments investigating the geotropic responses of radicles.
Contributor:
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From:
Douglas Fox
To:
William de Wiveleslie Abney
Date:
7 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 29
Summary:
Regrets he knows little of Dr Erasmus Darwin, but relates anecdotes told him by his father, Dr Fox of Derby.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 14
Summary:
Conveys some information about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s second wife and discusses photos of him and his wife.
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B27
Summary:
Hopes to send last part of his work soon. CD may lay it aside or print only parts of it. Wants to add account of evolutionists before Erasmus Darwin. Superficial account by Samuel Butler makes this necessary.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 30
Summary:
Memorandum about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s bequests.
Contributor:
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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 309
Summary:
Reports on his family’s illnesses and other domestic matters.
Contributor:
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.10: 85
Summary:
Sleep in Crotalaria.
Report of John Ball’s lecture to Geographical Society: Alpine flora is direct descendant of Palaeozoic flora ["On the origin of the flora of the European Alps", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography 1: 564–88].
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Buchanan White (Francis) (Buchanan) White
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 202: 129
Summary:
Is applying for the Chair in Zoology at Owens College and asks CD for a testimonial.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Buchanan White (Francis) (Buchanan) White
Date:
[after 11 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 129v
Summary:
Does not feel he knows enough of FBW to offer his opinion as a testimonial.
Contributor:
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