From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 10
Summary:
Lists observations he would like FD to make on the dried species of Desmodium at Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 11
Summary:
Wants FD to look at the little lateral leaflets of Desmodium. CD has "a wild hypothesis that the little leaflets may be tendrils reconverted into leaflets".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 23 July 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 9
Summary:
Asks for a specimen of Pinguicula.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 27 July 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 7
Summary:
Has been examining Utricularia minor. Same essential structure but catches smaller Entomostraca. One bladder had 24, another 20, and another 15 Entomostraca. "What slaughter! We must make out the functions of the beast––".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 12
Summary:
Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 8
Summary:
Begs FD’s pardon: his notes on Utricularia amethystina are on same page with those on U. nelumbifolia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 9
Summary:
Sends a chapter [of Insectivorous plants]. Never was there anything so dull, but later chapters will be better. Please correct an error on p. 86.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[31 Aug 1875 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 13
Summary:
Sends proofs of Variation [2d ed.] for FD to look over.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1875 or later?]
Source of text:
CUL, Darwin Pamphlet Collection R112
Summary:
Asks FD to make out [Hermann] Hoffmann’s conclusions about the fertilisation of Phaseolus multiflorus [in Untersuchungen zur Bestimmung des Werthes von Species und Varietät (1869)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 22a)
Summary:
Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.
Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 39–40)
Summary:
Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.
On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[30 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 10
Summary:
CD has just had an interview with Edward Frankland, who "almost laughs" at FD’s idea of getting potash and soda out of the soil by treating it with sulphuric acid. Asks FD to send him a soil sample to give to Frankland. Sends enclosures giving address and labels for soil samples.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 5
Summary:
Expresses his pride in FD, whose article ["On the structure of the snail’s heart", J. Anat. Physiol. 10 (1876): 506–10] was highly praised by G. H. Lewes.
Lewes has also been quoting FD’s letter in Nature [13 (1876): 384–5] on pycrotoxine in relation to the vivisection controversy.
Was introduced to James Sully, author of the article in Mind on Wilhelm Wundt ["Physiological psychology in Germany", 1 (1876): 20–43]
and Sensation and intuition (1874) [see 10320], by "Mrs Lewes" (George Eliot).
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 [May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 14
Summary:
Discusses FD’s observations on the protrusion of protoplasmic masses by cells of the teasel. Suggests analogy with amoeba. "I would work at this subject if I were you, to the point of death."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 15
Summary:
Comments on FD’s discovery – "if it so proves". It will be important to see whether the protoplasm oozes through the cell-walls [of Dipsacus] or whether it can be withdrawn.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 16
Summary:
Looks to FD’s "grand discovery" as almost certain. Suggests observations.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 22 July 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 40
Summary:
Asks FD to write on his behalf and say that he is unwilling to join a deputation [on vivisection] and that he believes in the need to protect physiology as well as lower animals.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 10
Summary:
Forwards chapter [of Orchids (1877)] for correction.
Sadness at the death of Amy.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
20 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 11
Summary:
Suggests German works worth translating.
Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 12
Summary:
FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.
Contributor:
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