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DCP-LETT-5592

From:
Jean-Baptiste-Édouard (Édouard) Bornet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Aug 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 256
Summary:

Sends ten different forms of Draba and Jordan’s instructions on when to sow seeds.

Reports sterility of a cross of two varieties of Papaver.

Thanks CD for a memoir.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5610

From:
William Angus Knight
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 40
Summary:

Offers CD a room for his forthcoming visit to the BAAS meeting at Dundee.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5611

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Baptiste-Édouard (Édouard) Bornet
Date:
20 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 501, fol. 388)
Summary:

Thanks JBEB for seeds of Draba which he will sow next year.

Describes the results of some crossing experiments with Papaver.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6637

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[20 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.205
Summary:

Thanks EC for her sonnet; talks about solar photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7754

From:
Norman Macleod
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 August 1867]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/1.195-196 verso; Reel 10
Summary:

Portrait of William Herschel will be returned after Second National Portrait Exhibition closes 31 Aug. Gratitude for JH's loan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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