From Francis Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle 24 January [1881]
Summary
FD and CD have been interested in AdeC’s diagram for illustrating inheritance. The difficulty of estimating different qualities in oneself and others is very great. Encloses a diagram illustrating how FD compares himself with his parents. CD has filled in a comparison with his father. It shows he resembles his father more than FD resembles CD. [The qualities compared are: stature, hair, eyes, pulse, musical capacity, ability to draw, tendency toward biological sciences, tendency toward mathematical sciences, perseverence, memory, aptitude for foreign languages.]
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 24 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13642 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 18 January [1881]
Summary
Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".
Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13017 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 24 January 1881
Summary
Thanks AdeC for interesting letter. CD has been annoyed by the multitude of new terms lately invented in all branches of biology in Germany. What AdeC says about the word "purpose" made CD vow not to use it again, but it is difficult to cure oneself of a vicious habit and difficult to avoid for anyone who tries to make out the use of a structure.
Francis will write about the diagram [see 13642].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 24 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13026 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 6 July [1881]
Summary
Thanks for a "grand volume" [vol. 3 of Monographiae phanerogamarum (1878–96)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 6 July [1881] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13236 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 9 July 1881
Summary
AdeC thinks Monographiae phanerogamarum may be of some use to CD for the most nearly correct names to adopt.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13239 |
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Candolle, Alphonse de | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |