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Authorised form of nameDarwin; Sir; Francis (1848 - 1925)
Dates1848 - 1925
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDown, Kent, England
Date of birth16 August 1848
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death19/09/1925
Dates and placesBurial:
St Giles' cemetery, now Ascension Cemetery, Cambridge
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Cambridge; St George's Hospital. MA (Cambridge); MB (1875, Cambridge)
Career:
Never practised medicine; Secretary to his father at Down (for 8 years); Lecturer in Botany, Cambridge University (1884-1888); Reader in Botany, Cambridge (1888-1904); President, British Association (1908)
Honours:
Kt 1913
Memberships:
FLS; FZS; FRMCS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/06/1882
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
For Sec 1903-1907; VP 1907-1908
Medals and prizes:
Darwin Medal 1912
RelationshipsGreat grandson of Erasmus Darwin (FRS 1761); grandson of Robert Waring Darwin (FRS 1788); son of Charles Robert Darwin (FRS 1839) and his wife Emma Wedgwood; brother of George Howard Darwin (FRS 1879) and Horace Darwin (FRS 1903).
Married: 1) (1874) Amy Ruch; 2) (1883) Ellen, daughter of John Crofts (she died 1903); 3) (1913) Mrs Maitland
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1932 vol 110 pp i-xxi, plate, by Albert Charles Seward and Frederick Frost Blackman
References:
James R Moore, 'On the Education of Darwin's Sons: The Correspondence Between Charles Darwin and the Reverend G V Reed, 1857-1864' in NR 1977-8 vol 32 pp 51-70
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/45044003
Royal Society codeNA8197
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1882/09Darwin, Sir Francis: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/34/70Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society[November 1906]
NLB/25/108Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society[11 August 1902]
NLB/36/236Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Secretary, Royal Society27 September 1907
NLB/3/16Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society15 February 1889
NLB/3/273Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1889
NLB/3/519Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society1 July 1889
NLB/3/545Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society8 July 1889
NLB/6/586Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society8 June 1892
NLB/6/58Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society22 February 1892
NLB/5/399Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society3 June 1891
NLB/5/401Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Horace Darwin3 June 1891
NLB/10/924Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]8 March 1895
NLB/10/211Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society22 October 1894
NLB/10/775Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society4 February 1895
NLB/10/389Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster16 November 1894
NLB/9/310Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society27 April 1894
NLB/11/375Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans, Treasurer, Royal Society18 June 1895
NLB/12/170Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Marshall Ward, Fellow of the Royal Society23 December 1895
NLB/23/1/139Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society1 October 1901
NLB/24New Letter Book volume 24, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration13 February 1902-21 July 1902
NLB/14/272Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Galton, Fellow of the Royal Society8 February 1897
NLB/49New Letter Book volume 49, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 October 1913-6 April 1914
NLB/50New Letter Book volume 50, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration6 April 1914-17 November 1914
RR/16/250Memoranda from Robert William Frederick Harrison, and reply from Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Some new species of lagenostoma: A type of pteridospermous seed from the coal measures' by E A Newell Arber16 February 1905
RR/16/11Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose[February 1904]
RR/16/173Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on report submitted to the Evolution Committee, II, regarding three papers 'Experimental Studies in the Physiology of Heredity' by William Bateson, E R Saunders and Reginald Crundall Punnett, 'Experiments with Poulty' by C C Hurst, and 'Some Experiments on Wheat-breeding' by Rowland Harry BiffenSeptember 1904
RR/16/134Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'The histology of Uredo dispera, Erikss, and the 'Mycoplasm' Hypothesis' by Harry Marshall WardMarch 1903
NLB/26/707Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Wychfield, Cambridge18 May 1903
RR/16/224Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'The action of wood on a photographic plate in the dark' by William James Russell4 July 1904
RR/18/7Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Further experiments on the origin of life question with certain superheated saline solutions' by Henry Charlton Bastian24 October 1910
RR/17/446Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respira­tion V.—A critical examination of Sachs’ method for using increase of dry weight as a measure of carbon dioxide assimilation in leaves' by David Thoday19 June 1909
NLB/28/103Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]11 January 1904
NLB/15/844Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Wychfield, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge22 December 1897
NLB/17/60Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society8 July 1898
NLB/16/833Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to A C Seward, Fellow of the Royal Society17 June 1898
NLB/24/565Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society3 June 1902
NLB/22/159Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society13 March 1901
NLB/21/575Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society12 December 1900
NLB/22/179Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society19 March 1901
NLB/21/588Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Wychfield, Cambridge13 December 1900
NLB/22/41Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society18 February 1901
NLB/22/72Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society26 February 1901
NLB/22/526Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Botany Committee30 May 1901
NLB/22/642Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Botany Committee19 June 1901
NLB/22/475Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society21 May 1901
NLB/22/547Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Francis] Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society1 June 1901
NLB/22/465Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society20 May 1901
NLB/23/1/169Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society4 October 1901
NLB/50/305Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society12 June 1914
NLB/22/782Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society17 July 1901
NLB/22/773Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society15 July 1901
NLB/21/771Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society28 January 1901
NLB/23/2/248Copy letter from Joseph Larmor and Michael Foster, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society30 October 1902
NLB/23/2/103Copy letter from Alfred Bray Kempe, to Professor Andrew Russell Forsyth, Chairman of the Mathematic Committee and other Sectional Committee Chairmen29 June 1901
NLB/31/542Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society9 October 1905
NLB/23/1/388Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society5 November 1901
NLB/30/186Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to Professor Magnus Gustaf Retzius, [Fellow of the Royal Society]8 February 1905
NLB/23/1/434Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Francis Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Cambridge12 November 1901
NLB/24/785Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society11 July 1902
NLB/23/1/699Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, 12 Egerton Place, S.W.7 January 1902
NLB/24/811Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to [Francis] Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]15 July 1902
NLB/24/331Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society28 April 1902
NLB/24/424Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society14 May 1902
NLB/25/206Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society22 September 1902
NLB/25/263Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society6 October 1902
NLB/25/451Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society7 November 1902
NLB/25/281Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society9 October 1902
NLB/25/380Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society28 October 1902
NLB/25/479Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society[10] November 1902
NLB/24/651Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society12 June 1902
NLB/25/485Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society10 November 1902
NLB/24/675Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Hugo Muller, Fellow of the Royal Society16 June 1902
NLB/24/705Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society23 June 1902
NLB/25/667Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society]5 December 1902
NLB/24/809Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1902
NLB/24/728Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society1 July 1902
NLB/26/236Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society16 February 1903
NLB/27/218Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society21 July 1903
NLB/27/239Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society23 July 1903
NLB/33/32Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society19 June 1906
NLB/30/142Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society3 February 1905
NLB/27/864Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society14 December 1903
NLB/30/165Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society7 February 1905
NLB/27/822Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society7 December 1903
NLB/29/674Copy telegram from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Cripps' Corner, Forest Row[November 1904]
NLB/30/292Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society28 February 1905
NLB/34/76Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society23 November 1906
NLB/29/272Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society30 August 1904
NLB/30/463Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society28 March 1905
NLB/29/593Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society11 November 1904
MC/28/56Letter from Francis Darwin, 10 Madingley Road, Cambridge, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]13 December 1913
NLB/32/259Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to Dr Lehmann8 February 1906
NLB/28/750Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society11 May 1904
NLB/29/473Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society22 October 1904
NLB/29/450Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society18 October 1904
NLB/31/453Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society21 September 1905
NLB/32/72Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society21 December 1905
NLB/31/599Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society17 October 1905
NLB/31/815Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society17 November 1905
NLB/33/206Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society16 July 1906
NLB/35/677Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society1 July 1907
NLB/37/36Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Francis Darwin FRS13 January 1908
NLB/33/857Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society14 November 1906
NLB/33/623Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society10 October 1906
NLB/33/688Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Mr [Francis] Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]22 October 1906
NLB/36/10Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society24 July 1907
NLB/35/36Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society8 April 1907
NLB/34/148Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to Professor Hugo De Vries, Fellow of the Royal Society4 December 1906
NLB/34/235Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society14 December 1906
NLB/34/149Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to Professor Elias Metschnikoff, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Institut Pasteur, Paris4 December 1906
NLB/35/315Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Secretary, Royal Society14 May 1907
NLB/34/674Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to The Rector, Royal University of Upsala, For the Senatus Aacademicus25 February 1907
NLB/34/845Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to the President, Michigan Agricultural College, Lansing, Michigan, USA18 March 1907
NLB/34/833Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to The President, Royal Academy of Science, Stockholm15 March 1907
NLB/34/830Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society15 March 1907
NLB/34/844Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to Monsieur le President, de l'Academie des sciences, Paris18 March 1907
NLB/34/895Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to Monsieur le President, de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris22 March 1907
NLB/36/534Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society12 November 1907
NLB/38/539Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society14 September 1908
NLB/40/541Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Francis Darwin FRS 23 June 1909
NLB/40/496Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Francis Darwin FRS 15 June 1909
NLB/42/81Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to F [Francis] Darwin FRS23 March 1910
NLB/41/92Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society13 October 1909
NLB/42/317Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to F [Francis] Darwin, FRS 18 May 1910
NLB/42/206Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Francis Darwin, FRS, 13 Madingley Road, Cambridge25 april 1910
NLB/42/331Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Francis Darwin FRS24 May 1910
NLB/41/809Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to, Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society28 February 1910
NLB/45/632Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Francis Darwin FRS18 April 1912
NLB/45/212Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Francis Darwin FRS19 January 1912
NLB/48/563Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society26 July 1913
NLB/47/151Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Francis Darwin FRS9 December 1912
NLB/45/613Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Francis Darwin FRS12 April 1912
NLB/45/668Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Francis Darwin FRS22 April 1912
MC/28/57Letter from Francis Darwin, 10 Madingley Road, Cambridge, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]10 December 1913
NLB/50/256Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society4 June 1914
NLB/48/367Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society23 June 1913
NLB/55/102Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Francis Darwin, FRS04 December 1917
NLB/51/7Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir Francis Darwin FRS19 November 1914
NLB/52/245Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Francis Darwin, FRS2 October 1915
NLB/47/518Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Francis Darwin FRS13 February 1913
NLB/48/267Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Botany Committee6 June 1913
NLB/48/326Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Botany Sectional Committee16 June 1913
NLB/48/363Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society20 June 1913
NLB/48/414Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir [Francis] Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Botany Sectional Committee1 July 1913
NLB/48/476Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Botany Committee10 July 1913
NLB/50/73Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society23 April 1914
NLB/50/586Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society12 August 1914
NLB/51/50Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir Francis Darwin FRS26 November 1914
NLB/50/54Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society22 April 1914
NLB/50/612Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society26 September 1914
NLB/50/258Copy letter from [unknown correspondent], to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society5 June 1914
NLB/50/285Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society9 June 1914
NLB/50/33Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir [Francis] Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, The Chairman of the Botany Sectional Committee21 April 1914
NLB/50/280Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society9 June 1914
MC/21/150Letter from Hugo De Vries, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, to Mr [Francis] Darwin7 November 1906
NLB/50/396Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society3 July 1914
NLB/50/663Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society7 October 1914
NLB/50/601Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society21 September 1914
NLB/50/838Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society16 November 1914
NLB/50/667Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society8 October 1914
NLB/50/734Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society27 October 1914
NLB/51/33Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir Francis Darwin FRS24 November 1914
NLB/54/561Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Francis Darwin, FRS19 June 1917
RR/24/80Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Geotropism and the Weber–Fechner law' by James Small[June 1917]
RR/20/25Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'On the floral mechanism of welwitschia mirabilis (Hooker)' by Arthur Harry Church7 March 1914
RR/32/49Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'On the effect of temperature on the stomata' by Francis DarwinFebruary 1925
RR/22/40Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'On the relation between transpiration and stomatal aperture' by Francis DarwinAugust 1915
RR/9/131Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'On the relations of particular structural features' by David Douglas Cunningham1883
NLB/56/579Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Francis Darwin, FRS20 March 1919
RR/9/140Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'On the continuity of the protoplasm through the walls of vegetable cells' by Walter Gardiner1883
NLB/67/571Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS23 January 1925
RR/14/25Referee's report by Sydney Howard Vines, on a paper 'Observations on stomata' by Francis Darwin14 June 1898
RR/14/26Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Observations on stomata' by Francis Darwin19 June 1898
RR/17/27Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'On the transpiration current in plants' by Henry Horatio Dixon[November 1906]
RR/15/338aReferee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'The seed-fungus of lolium temulentum. L. the darnel, or poisonous rye-grass' by E M Freeman2 August 1902
RR/22/8Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Analyses of agricultural yield. Part II - The showing-date experiment with Egyptian cotton, 1913' by William Lawrence Balls24 March 1915
RR/22/41Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'On the relation between transpiration and stomatal aperture' by Francis Darwin15 August 1915
NLB/68/922Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Frederick Frost] Blackman, FRS1 December 1925
NLB/62/594Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Francis Darwin, FRS20 March 1922
NLB/62New Letter Book volume 62, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration11 November 1921-10 June 1922
IM/GA/Russell/001065Darwin, Sir Francis1922
NLB/67/650Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Francis Darwin, FRS6 February 1925
NLB/66/662Copy letter from the Royal Society; [to the Printers]16 June 1924
NLB/68/765Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS30 October 1925
NLB/68/858Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur George] Tansley, FRS13 November 1925
NLB/50/571Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society31 July 1914
MC/19/238Letter from Francis Darwin, 30 Kensington Square, to [Rober William Frederick] Harrison19 April 1904
NLB/3/721Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Secretary of The Pasteur Fund, Mansion House24 September 1889
NLB/10/914Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society6 March 1895
RR/15/331Memoranda from Robert William Frederick Harrison, and reply from Francis Darwin, on a paper on a paper 'The physics and physiology of the protoplasmic streaming of plants' by Alfred James Ewart14 May 1902
RR/16/101Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Cultural experiments with 'Biologic Forms' of the Erysiphaceae' by Ernest S SalmonDecember 1903
RR/13/295Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'The relations between marine animal and vegetable life' by H M Vernon2 January 1898
NLB/22/57Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society22 February 1901
NLB/22/563Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society5 June 1901
NLB/23/1/668Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society21 December 1901
NLB/24/476Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society23 May 1902
NLB/31/827Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to His Excellency the Russian Ambassador, Chesham House, Chesham Place, S.W. 21 November 1905
NLB/31/828Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to His Excellency the German Ambassador, 9 Carlton House Terrace, S.W. 21 November 1905
MC/21/135Letter from [Francis] Darwin, 13 Madingley Road, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison17 July 1906
NLB/34/515Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society1 February 1907
NLB/47/467Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Francis Darwin FRS, 11 Egerton Place, SW4 February 1913
NLB/50/493Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society17 July 1914
RR/12/309Letter from Francis Darwin, regarding a paper 'On the ascent of sap' by Henry Horatio Dixon and John Joly7 March 1895
RR/21/19Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Analyses of agricultural yield. Part I.—The spacing experiment with Egyptian cottom, 1912' by William Lawrence Balls and Francis S Holton5 June 1914
NLB/34/834Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to The President, The Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna15 March 1907
NLB/22New Letter Book volume 22, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration8 February 1901-2 August 1901
RR/8/12Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'On the protrusion of protoplasmic filaments from the glandular hairs of the common teasel (Dipsacus sylvestris)' by Francis Darwin3 May 1877
RR/15/21Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Some new observations on the static diffusion of gases and liquids and their significance in certain natural processes occurring in plants' by Horace Tabberer Brown and F Escombe13 July 1900
MC/12/255Letter from F [Francis] Darwin, Down, Beckenham, to John Evans, [Treasurer of the Royal Society]12 June 1882
MC/12/254Letter from F [Francis] Darwin, Down, Beckenham, to G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society11 June 1882
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
RR/12/310Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'On the ascent of sap' by Henry Horatio Dixon and John Joly24 October 1894
PP/13/8Paper, 'Preliminary account of the morphology of the sporophyte of Splachnum luteum' by J R Vaizey1888
RR/8/11Referee's report by Joseph Dalton Hooker, on a paper 'On the protrusion of protoplasmic filaments from the glandular hairs of the common teasel (Dipsacus sylvestris)' by Francis Darwin7 May 1877
RR/12/89Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'On the ascent of sap' by Henry Horatio Dixon and John Joly27 December 1894
MC/18/35Letter from [Francis] Darwin, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison15 May 1903
AP/59/1Unpublished paper, 'On the protrusion of protoplasmic filaments from the glandular hairs on the leaves of the common teasel (Dipsacus sylvestris)' by Francis Darwin1877
MC/19/237Letter from Francis Darwin, Botanical Laboratory, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison22 February 1904
MC/20/26Letter from [Francis] Darwin, 30 Kensington Square, to the Royal Society[1905]
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
MC/28/55Letter from Francis Darwin, Brookthorpe, Gloucester, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]24 June 1913
MC/28/58Letter from [William Erasmus] Darwin, 11 Egerton Place, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]30 July 1913
NLB/31/21Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to the Secretary, Congres International Pour L'Etude de La Radiologie Et de L'Ionisation 8 June 1905
MC/21/133Letter from [Francis] Darwin, 13 Madingley Road, Cambridge, to [Joseph] Larmor19 March 1906
MC/21/134Letter from [Francis] Darwin, 13 Madingley Road, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison25 June 1906
NLB/33/229Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society20 July 1906
MC/21/136Letter from Francis Darwin, The Royal Society, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison23 October 1906
MC/29/177Letter from [Ernest William] MacBride, Imperial College of Science and Technology (Royal College of Science), South Kensington, London, S.W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]22 June 1914
MC/18/34Letter from [Francis] Darwin, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison5 March [1903]
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
MC/18Volume 18 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1903
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/21/413Letter from [John William] Mallet, University of Virginia, Charlottsville, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, London20 March 1906
MC/21/538Letter from Pierre [?], Ambassade Imperiale de Russie, Chesham House, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House22 September 1906
MC/32/66Letter from [Francis] Darwin, Brookthorpe, Gloucester, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]June 1917
MC/32/67Letter from [Francis] Darwin, 10 Madingley Road, Cambridge, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]3 December 1917
MC/34/46Letter from Francis Darwin, Brookthorpe, Gloucester, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]10 March 1919
MC/39Volume 39 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1925
MC/39/104Letter from [Arthur George] Tansley, Grantchester, Cambridge, to [Francis Alexander] Towle14 November 1924
MC/21/215Letter from [James Lachlan] Galbraith, The Library, The University, Glasgow, to the [Royal Society]2 October 1906
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