From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 108
Summary:
Sends flowers of a variety of Lychnis dioica which has bisexual flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 106
Summary:
Has forwarded a box of Lychnis plants to CD; gives her observations on the variations in stamen length.
Contributor:
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23–4 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 107
Summary:
Gives the results of her observations on Lychnis; lists four different types of flower present and their occurrence.
Contributor:
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 109
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s paper [not named].
Inquires whether Lychnis, as an hermaphrodite, is more susceptible to fungus, disease, other weaknesses.
Contributor:
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 110
Summary:
Sends seeds of female Lychnis diurna; has found none in hermaphrodites.
On variation, hybridity, and inheritance of parasites in this plant.
Contributor:
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 111
Summary:
Has found seeds produced by an hermaphroditic Lychnis and will send them. On structural obstacles to fertilisation of hermaphrodite Lychnis.
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 112
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of her book [Botany for novices (1864?)], intended to encourage the young, especially ladies, to study nature.
Contributor:
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 113
Summary:
Thanks CD for previous communications. Asks him to send a paper relating to flowers to be read at first meeting of her ladies’ literary and scientific society.
Contributor:
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 114
Summary:
Thanks for "Climbing plants" and other papers [as requested in 5316].
Sends specimens of a variety of Primula not mentioned by CD [in Primula paper, Collected papers 2: 45–63?].
Contributor:
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 115
Summary:
Thanks CD for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31] and "Climbing plants" sent to Manchester Ladies’ Literary Society. Comments on Lythrum.
Contributor:
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 105, 116
Summary:
Praises Variation and Pangenesis.
Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.
Contributor:
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 117, 119
Summary:
Sends abstract of her BAAS paper on the role of a parasitic fungus in producing bisexual flowers in Lychnis.
Contributor:
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 118
Summary:
Asks CD to which journal she should send her Lychnis paper and whether she may quote extracts from his letters to her.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
Date:
[26 or 27 May 1863]
Source of text:
Journal of Botany 7: 291–2
Summary:
Thinks the dark purple anthers are a mass of a Cryptogamic plant, allied to the smut of Wheat. There remains a case of a reversion from a diœcious to a hermaphrodite condition.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
Date:
2 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
Charterhouse Archives (ACC 013)
Summary:
Thanks LEB for the Lychnis seed [see 4258], which he will plant in the hope of fertilising the little ovaria.
Comments on the two forms of Linum.
Contributor:
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