From:
William Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 39–40
Summary:
Facts and inferences relating to different varieties of sweetpeas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert Way
Date:
7 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.205)
Summary:
Asks AW about archaeological evidence concerning the first appearance of dray horses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
7 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:
Much interested in MTM’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On the relation between the abnormal and normal formations in plants", Notes Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1860): 223–7].
Asks for information about crossing of varieties of peas. Describes his own experimental results: "the offspring out of the same pod, instead of being intermediate, was very nearly like the two pure parents; yet in one, there was a trace of the cross & the next generation showed still more plainly their mongrel origins".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1860
Source of text:
DAR 166.1:180 [diagram here]
Summary:
Sketch and description of a [wasp’s] nest from Cuba. [Notes by CD on wasps’ nests and comb-building habits of hive-bees.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Barclay
Date:
7 April 1860
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project