From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 52
Summary:
Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 42
Summary:
Is pleased FD’s climbing work goes well.
Thanks him for information on heliotropism.
Discusses sleep movements
and his observations on the sensitivity of radicle tips.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Fisher
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 106
Summary:
Agrees to read manuscript if short.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
9 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 7339: 57)
Summary:
Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea
and about wasps on Scrophularia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André (Jean-Baptiste) Dumas; Joseph Louis François (Joseph) Bertrand
Date:
12 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 21
Summary:
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Academy.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
14 [Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 43
Summary:
Instructs FD to plant some Oxalis seeds.
Wishes to trace the movement of an old cotyledon. Asks him to examine and compare the pulvinus of a species which moves its cotyledon greatly with one of a species that moves it only moderately.
Are the tendrils ready for heliotropic experiment yet?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 44
Summary:
Instructions to sow some seeds
and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.
Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
17 [Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 73
Summary:
He and Emma rejoice that GHD’s mathematical troubles are at an end. It is miraculous that he unconsciously followed the right course – like composing a sonata by a fluke.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Ogle trans. 1878, pp. v–vi
Summary:
Is glad WO is undertaking the editing of Anton Kerner’s book [Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (1876)], which appears to open out "highly original & curious fields of research". [Used as prefatory letter to Kerner, Flowers and their unbidden guests, The translation revised and edited by W. Ogle (1878).]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[19 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 4v
Summary:
Asks FD to reply to a letter [11653a] requesting a list of CD’s books.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
E. Vignes
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
La France , 1 May 1882
Summary:
Is gratified by EV’s "spirited and able defence" in the article printed in La France [26 April 1878].
Contributor:
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