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DCP-LETT-3330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 689)
Summary:

Would prefer to have Primula paper published in the Linnean Society’s Journal rather than Transactions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3335

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 691)
Summary:

Thanks GB for valuable letter [3331].

Will follow his suggestion about violets.

Discusses differences between Thymus and Primula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3344

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
15 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 198)
Summary:

Thanks JL for a flower of Bolbophyllum, a genus that puzzles him.

Recent work has convinced him a number of orchids are male. Points out that JL [in The vegetable kingdom (1846), pp. 177–8] "accidentally misquoted" R. H. Schomburgk on this point.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3350

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
24 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 199)
Summary:

Delayed thanking JL for two notes until he heard from Hooker about Acropera luteola; had no idea A. luteola was not a well-known name.

Cites his reasons for identifying A. loddigesii as male; hopes for a Gongora flower from Hooker which, JL suggested, may be the female.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
28 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 200)
Summary:

Thanks JL for information about Acropera luteola.

Also thanks for the Gongora; cannot avoid the impression it is male.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3437

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 694–6)
Summary:

Asks GB’s help to clear up discrepancies between his and John Lindley’s observations on pollination of Melastomataceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3488

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 699)
Summary:

Will try to come to Linnean Society to read his paper, but has been "extra headachy". Fears his paper ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70] will not be worth Lindley’s attendance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
28 Mar [1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 34 DAR/1/1/34)
Summary:

Publication plans for the account of the Beagle expedition – CD to have the third volume for his journal.

News of naturalists and their interest in his specimens. Queries about plant specimens, including one on whether seeds from Keeling Island would endure salt water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-355

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
18 [May 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 35 DAR/1/1/35)
Summary:

Plans to apply to Government for assistance with publishing Zoology.

Robert Brown has taken an interest in the fossil woods.

CD is at work on his journal. Has not begun his geology yet. Has seen much of Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-356

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[28 May 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 36 DAR/1/1/36)
Summary:

CD to read paper on formation of coral islands at Geological Society. Lyell seems prepared to give up [his view].

Publication of the Narrative is now definite. Feels he should have published journal after the geology and zoology of the voyage.

Robert Brown, as well as JSH, is interested in edible fungi from Tierra del Fuego.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-366

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[12 or 13 July 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 37 DAR/1/1/37)
Summary:

Has been "cramming up learning to ornament my journal with".

Sends a list of questions on his botanical specimens. Needs answers for Journal of researches, which he expects to go to press in August.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-368

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1 Aug 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 38 DAR/1/1/38)
Summary:

Botanical queries for Journal of researches, which is about to go to press.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3723

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
14 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 192)
Summary:

Thanks JL for review [of Orchids, Gard. Chron. (1862): 789–90, 863]; CD published almost by accident, having been led on in part by encouragement from JL.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-373

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
16 Aug [1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 39 DAR/1/1/39)
Summary:

Reports his successful interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Thomas Spring Rice] about a grant for publishing [Zoology]. Thanks JSH for help with this; "you have been the making of me from the first".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3760

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 715)
Summary:

Asks for reference to GB’s summary of Targioni-Tozzetti’s book ["Historical notes on the introduction of various plants into the agriculture and horticulture of Tuscany: a summary of a work entitled Cenni storici sulla introduzione di varie piante nell agricultura ed orticultura Toscana by Dr Antonio Targioni-Tozzetti, Florence, 1850", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 9 (1855): 133–81]. [See Variation, 1st ed., 1: 306 n.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-378

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[20 Sept 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 40 DAR/1/1/40)
Summary:

Doctors have urged him to knock off all work and go to the country. Arranges proof-reading with JSH, while he is at Shrewsbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-381

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[23 Sept 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 41 DAR/1/1/41)
Summary:

Proof-reading arrangements for Journal of researches. CD’s difficulty in writing correctly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-382

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
14 Oct [1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 42 DAR/1/1/42)
Summary:

CD’s reasons for his reluctance to take the Secretaryship of the Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-384

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[4 Nov 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 43 DAR/1/1/43)
Summary:

CD’s work [on Zoology] is going smoothly. Marvels at finding himself an author [of Journal of researches]. Part so far printed has a good many errata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-388

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[19 Nov 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 44 DAR/1/1/44)
Summary:

Asks JSH to look over the prospectus [for Zoology]. Has one more chapter of Journal of researches to finish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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