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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 80–1
Summary:

Oliver cannot, as CD has requested, hunt for trimorphic flowers in the Herbarium’s collection of Oxalis specimens. He would help Frank if he comes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Pieter Harting
Date:
19 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Leiden University Libraries (BPL 1938)
Summary:

Thanks for account of his work. Cannot read Dutch, but son has translated it.

Thanks for album sent by PH’s countrymen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 111: A84
Summary:

Regrets he cannot help on Oxalis question. He did not note the names of species with cleistogamic flowers as he thought they were sufficiently known.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Mar [1877]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (tipped into Orchids 2d ed., EC85 D2593 862oba)
Summary:

Sends an informal title-page [for Orchids, 2d ed.].

Appreciates the condolences for Frank [on death of his wife, Amy].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 181: 127
Summary:

Pangenesis supports the existence of gemmules; does not accept Galton’s experiments as disproving their existence or importance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Chalmers Morton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 248
Summary:

The editor of the Agricultural Gazette asks CD to settle a point being debated in his journal. Can a desirable breed of cattle, which is so inbred as to have scrofula, be maintained by crossing with a breed of healthy constitution?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
19 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Wishes to reprint his four Linnean Society papers on di- and trimorphic plants [Forms of flowers]. Requests permission and woodblocks of figures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 486
Summary:

Murray’s will not announce CD’s new work [Forms of flowers] until informed to do so.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project