From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 224
Summary:
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 59 (EH 88206042)
Summary:
Thanks for information on Tecoma.
Cannot believe DO’s statement about Catasetum; is sure C. tridentatum sets seeds in its native country.
CD erred on Acropera, but how is it naturally fertilised?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 282
Summary:
Has six months’ leave from the Admiralty because of his health; intends going to Europe for four months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 102
Summary:
On fertilisation of Gongora.
His work on peloric Antirrhinum, Passiflora, and Verbascum, done at CD’s suggestion, is at CD’s disposal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Wright
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20, 25 and 26 Mar 1864 and 1 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 181: 163
Summary:
Describes the flower and mode of action of a particular orchid.
Has been examining Spiranthes and is experimenting to see whether insects are necessary for its fertilisation.
It seems that Oncidium is designed so as not to be fertilised.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 86–7, 175–7
Summary:
Sends drawings of the pollen from Chinese Primula plants with styles and pistils of different lengths; observations on sizes and condition of their pollen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26[–7] Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 225
Summary:
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 103
Summary:
Surprised at CD’s account of Bryanthus.
H. Crüger’s approach to Gongora fertilisation is beset with difficulties.
Reports his work on self-sterility of Oncidium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 193–7
Summary:
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
29 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/54)
Summary:
Eighty-two plants have germinated from earth on wounded partridge’s foot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
11 March 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/197, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
17 March 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/198, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
23 March 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/199, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
24 March 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/200, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
28 March 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/201, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
John F Fryer
Date:
15 March 1864
Source of text:
MM/21/11, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 March 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/143
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
8 March 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/143
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frederick Arrow
Date:
14 March 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/143
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Correspondent
- Airy, George Biddell2
- Akin, C. K.2
- Arrow, Frederick1
- Becker, L. E.1
- Bentham, George1
- Berthon, Peter Henry2
- Bonsey, W.1
- Bouverie-Pusey, Sidney Edward Bouverie1
- Cameron, Julia Margaret1
- Carpenter, William Benjamin1
- Clarke, William Branwhite1
- Colling, Elizabeth1
- Darwin, C. R.22
- Darwin, E. A.2
- Darwin, Emma5
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, H. E.2
- Darwin, W. E.5
- Faraday, Michael5
- Fryer, John F1
- Gray, Asa1
- Griesbach, John Henry1
- Haast, Julius1
- Haeckel, Ernst2
- Herschel (son), John1
- Herschel, John26
- Hodgson, Richard2
- Hooker, J. D.6
- Hooker, Joseph1
- Hooker, William1
- Howlett, Frederick2
- Jenner, William1
- Jennings, Edward John1
- Jones, Henry Bence1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Martius, Carl von1
- Maskelyne, Nevil1
- Moore, Charles1
- Moore, Harriet1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von8
- Newton, Alfred1
- Oliver, Daniel6
- Percy, John1
- Pritchard, Charles2
- Ransome, Frederick1
- Rodgers, Charles2
- Royal Society5
- Samuelson, James7
- Scott, John3
- Spencer, Herbert2
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Tyndall, John3
- Wade, Thomas Francis1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Wedgwood, Emma4
- Wright, Charles1
- Wyndham-Quin, [Augusta]1
- [Howlett, [Frederick1
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