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Sir Francis "Frank" Darwin was a British botanist. He was a son of the naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin, brother of astronomer George Darwin, and brother of politician, economist and eugenicist Leonard Darwin. He edited The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1887), and produced some books of letters from the correspondence of Charles Darwin; The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887) and More Letters of Charles Darwin (1905). He also edited Thomas Huxley's On the Reception of the Origin of Species (1887).