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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Apologises for keeping the tables so long [see 10090]. The results seem extremely curious.
Comments on paper by JHG and J. B. Lawes.
Thanks for advice concerning preparation of soil for experiments. Will order the salts. Asks about burning soil or washing it with acid.
Thanks for invitation. His son [Francis] would like to inspect JHG’s plots.
Describes self- and cross-fertilisation experiments.
Asks JHG’s advice on setting up an experiment designed to test whether the cause of variation in cultivated plants lies in different substances absorbed from the soil when absorption is not interfered with by other plants in a state of nature. Can JHG suggest how he can get soil free of all the substances which plants naturally absorb?
Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.
Discusses fairy rings.
Thanks for a copy of Insectivorous Plants.
Discusses in detail how to prepare for experimental purposes a soil that lacks nutrients.
Sends advice on preparing and washing soil in preparation for CD’s experiments.