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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 46
Summary:

He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 394
Summary:

Thanks ASW for Aegilops seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Anton Stecker
Date:
17 Mar 1878
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Sends father’s regrets that CD will not be able to help Stecker as appointments are few in number and much sought after.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
John Clarke (Clarke) Hawkshaw
Date:
[before 18 Apr 1878]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (27 March 2019, lot 160)
Summary:

FD reports that CD thinks CH’s observations on limpets worth publishing (Hawkshaw 1878).

Marlborough Robert Pryor of Weston Park, Stevenage, is an admirable naturalist, especially concerning limpets.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 47
Summary:

Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Date:
[before 24 May 1878]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 206)
Summary:

Regrets that the arrangement to visit Down must be for Friday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 51
Summary:

Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 June] 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 181
Summary:

Sleep of Porlieria hygrometrica seems independent of light.

Will have lots of time for oats. W. F. P. Pfeffer’s point is that there is no growth in sleepers with joints. A. F. Batalin says there is a slight growth.

[Dated Saturday 28th by FD.]

Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 57
Summary:

He has been talking to Julius von Sachs about sleeping plants that move with and without growth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.7: 157
Summary:

Sleep in Porlieria studied.

Oats begin germinating.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.1: 156–7, DAR 209.14: 88
Summary:

Chlorophyll development in oat seedling.

Lists the sleeping plants he has seen.

Julius Sachs thinks Hugo de Vries has not cleared up everything [about climbing plants]. But Sachs has not worked on the mechanical problem.

Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 48
Summary:

Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.1: 155; DAR 274.1: 50, 52
Summary:

More sleepers from green-house.

Julius Sachs’s view of climbing plants: he distinguishes between nutation to find a support and growth after support is found.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 59, DAR 209.8: 151
Summary:

Has been investigating nutational movements of climbing plants; comments on the opinions of Julius von Wiesner and Julius Sachs. Remarks on the sleep movements of certain plants and the mechanism of tendril curvature. Is experimenting with Porlieria.

Has visited K. G. Semper’s laboratory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 and 25 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 60, DAR 209.6: 198
Summary:

Notes Julius Sachs’s opinion on the heliotropism of moulds: he can see no use in the response.

C. E. Stahl is working on swarm spores which can be made both helio- and apheliotropic.

Sachs has told him that some ferns sleep, and he suspects that some grasses may move.

Sachs also feels they may be working at bloom from a wrong point of view and suggests leaves may need to keep dry in order to keep their stomata open.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 152
Summary:

Sachs jumps to the conclusion twiners and tendrils are similar from the Menispermum that twined without a stick. Akebia grows down a stick; not only the free end is involved.

Sleeping plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–7 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 57
Summary:

Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1)
Summary:

Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Sept 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 44
Summary:

He has been working hard at Kew for two days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 42
Summary:

Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project