From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 132
Summary:
JDH asked to check Lindley on Acropera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 133
Summary:
Transport of an orchid to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 688
Summary:
Requests more precise details about Oxalis, to which GB referred in his remarks on Primula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 134
Summary:
Acropera species may be males of other orchids.
Homologies of ducts in orchids.
Went to British Museum to see Bates’s mimetic butterflies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 689)
Summary:
Would prefer to have Primula paper published in the Linnean Society’s Journal rather than Transactions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
30 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 2 (EH 88205986)
Summary:
Requests that DO examine enclosed microscope slides of Acropera ovules, to confirm CD’s opinion that females are non-functional.
Can DO comment on disagreement between Robert Brown and John Lindley over the number of Acropera carpels?
O. Heer’s Atlantis theory vs CD’s hypothesis of a migration north during warm periods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 691)
Summary:
Thanks GB for valuable letter [3331].
Will follow his suggestion about violets.
Discusses differences between Thymus and Primula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
27 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Hindman (dealers) (8 October 2020, lot 44)
Summary:
Thanks Dorothy Nevill for her assistance in supplying him with plants, but he will not require any more. Asks her to remember him to A. E. Knox.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
3 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 52 (EH 88206035)
Summary:
Thanks for "multitudinous" references.
Thanks Hooker for orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Scot Skirving
Date:
16 Nov [1861-8]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 481
Summary:
Knows nothing of the habits of earwigs. Thinks Edward Newman may be trusted on the point [as to whether or not earwigs can fly].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 November 1861
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 134
Summary:
Refers to Bates' admiration of ARW.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project