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Francis Darwin. Sir Francis Darwin FLS FRS FRSE [1] (16 August 1848 – 19 September 1925) was a British botanist. He was the third son of the naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin. [2] Biography. Francis Darwin in 1910. Francis Darwin was born in Down House, Downe, Kent in 1848.
Francis Darwin. CUL DAR 225: 42. Cambridge University Library. Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences.
Sir Francis Darwin, 1848–1925, English botanist, assistant to his father, Charles Robert Darwin. He lectured in botany at Cambridge and was foreign secretary of the Royal Society and president of the British Association. He edited the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887) and was knighted in 1913. The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.
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Darwin, Francis (b. Down, Kent, England, 16 August 1848; d. Cambridge, England, 19 September 1925)botany. Source for information on Darwin, Francis: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography dictionary.
Apr 18, 2024 · Charles Darwin’s own memoir, included in Francis Darwin’s Life and Letters (1887), was also censored as the family attempted to shape Darwin’s legacy. The thousands of letters sent to Charles Darwin were largely unpublished.
To Francis Darwin 28 June [1879] Discusses the movements of radicles. His observations show that sensitivity to touch resides in the root tip and he believes that sensitivity to gravity governing geotropic responses is also in the root tip.
Francis Darwin consented to the publication but refused Galton permission to include any of his father's letters. (Letter to Francis Darwin, 28 June 1887. DAR106-107) The family struggled to keep tight control over Charles Darwin's letters in order to protect his posthumous image.
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