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DCP-LETT-6134

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 160
Summary:

Has studied Variation with interest.

Cannot quite follow CD on reversion and Pangenesis,

but is amazed at CD’s observations and method.

Comments on varieties of asses, kidney beans, and artichokes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6147

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 161
Summary:

Discusses Hildebrand

and criticises Delpino.

Asks to borrow C. K. Sprengel’s Entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur [1793].

Botanists have no explanation of the case of Viola odorata and other showy flowers being sterile while inconspicuous ones bear seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6405

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 29 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 237
Summary:

Asks CD to sign enclosed certificate first, as he does not know T. H. Farrer personally. [On top part of first two pages of a letter to Hooker from H. C. Rothery about Farrer’s nomination for Linnean Society]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6734

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 162
Summary:

The Linnean Society Council wants CD to review two papers, with reference to their value for publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6744

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 163
Summary:

Will have Fritz Müller’s letter ["On the modification of the stamens in a species of Begonia", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1871): 472–4] read at next Linnean Society meeting [read 3 June 1869].

Has given the seeds to Daniel Oliver.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7005

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 164
Summary:

Has heard that CD thinks GB is wrong on some points in his [Presidential] Address [to Linnean Society, see 6793]. Asks CD to point out where he is wrong.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7012

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 165
Summary:

Comments on CD’s observations on his address; clarifies his view of the importance of isolation, the effect of climate, the plants of S. Africa and Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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LINNEAN1926

From:
George Bentham
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
6 Oct 1827
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/20/76, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends parcel of plants from [George] Arnott, just returned from excursion to Scotland. Sends copy of his work on Pyrenaean plants; apologises for delay; printed in a hasty manner. The last year so taken up with his legal studies that he has neglected botany, but time spent with Arnott and [William Jackson] Hooker has revived his interest; wrote to Montpellier, [France], to have his herbarium sent over.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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FVM-58-08-23a

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 August 1858
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-05-16

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 May 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published copy of this letter see Daley (1927-8) pp. 92-3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-05-22

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
22 May 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published version of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 94. Also published, with elisions, in Moyal (1976) pp. 177-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-10-15

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 October 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published version of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 98. Also published in Moyal (1976) pp. 179-80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-11-16

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 November 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published copy of extracts of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 98
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-03-24

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 March 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For published extracts of this letter see Daley (1927-8) pp. 99-100
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-04-18

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 April 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For published extracts of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 127
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-05-19

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-05-24

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 May 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-06-24

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 June 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-07-14

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
14 July 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-07-24

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 July 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens MelbournePublished in part in Moyal (1976) pp. 180-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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