From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
30 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 108
Summary:
Reports on state of family’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Wolstenholme
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[27 Mar 1863?]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 140
Summary:
Responds belatedly with advice about Cambridge colleges with particular reference to mathematics. Of the large ones Trinity stands out. Of the small ones Christ’s or possibly Caius.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[4 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 55
Summary:
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 110
Summary:
Discusses dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[10 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 111
Summary:
Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.
Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[25 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 112
Summary:
Relates events at Down;
asks WED to make some observations on Lythrum.
His present hobby-horse is tendrils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219. 1: 78
Summary:
CD’s health.
Family and local news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[18 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 118
Summary:
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[14–17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A3
Summary:
Instructions on measuring pollen of dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A8, A10
Summary:
Thanks WED for measuring cowslip pollen. Sends dimorphic flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 13
Summary:
Experiment instructions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5
Summary:
Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 80
Summary:
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[after 14 Apr – 5 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: 9
Summary:
Describes difference between Pulmonaria flowers; wishes to know whether it is general.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
19 [June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 14
Summary:
Different forms of flowers of Rhamnus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 122
Summary:
Writes of dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 15
Summary:
Polymorphism in Rhamnus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[24 June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 16
Summary:
Polymorphic flowers of Rhamnus [see Forms of flowers, p. 294].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
30 [June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 17
Summary:
Cuttings have arrived. Different flower forms [in Rhamnus?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 120
Summary:
Tells WED of a change in his will.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
