From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24–5 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 42 (EH 88206025)
Summary:
Observation on morphology of Primula ovarium sent for DO’s use.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
24 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B72–4
Summary:
Enthusiastic about JS’s work on Passiflora self-incompatibility.
CD quotes JS on rostellar pollen germination [in "Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 77–8]. H. Crüger attributes it to ants’ carrying stigmatic secretion to pollen.
Homomorphic cowslip seedlings are, sadly, showing variation.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 188
Summary:
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.
Geographical distribution during and between glacial periods.
Latent characters and reversion.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
28 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 43 (EH 88206026)
Summary:
Nectar secretion in Edwardsia. Could the stamen protect stigma?
Sends monstrous Primula with three pistils.
Had never heard of Robert Caspary, but what DO thinks is the placenta could be a whorl of pistils without stigmas.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 189
Summary:
CD regrets he used "creation" in Origin when he meant "appeared".
An Oken-like article in "Owenian style" in Athenæum.
Tropical plants continue to be troublesome.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
30 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.293)
Summary:
Thanks GHKT for specimens of Sethia. Discusses functions of their dimorphism for insect fertilisation.
Discusses polymorphism and fertilisation in Lythraceae.
Asks for seed of Limnanthemum.
Describes his interest in galls.
Discusses curious specimens of Gomphia and Lesemia.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[17–24 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 237
Summary:
Reports the observations of Hermann Crüger and John Scott that fruit is set by orchids whose flowers never open and that pollen-tubes are emitted from pollen-masses still in their proper position. These cases convince CD that in Orchids he underestimated the power of tropical orchids to produce seed without insect aid but he is not shaken in his belief that the structure of the flowers is mainly related to insect agency.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
24 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/53)
Summary:
Thanks for potatoes, which may be useful in crossing.
Germination of seeds in earth on partridge’s foot.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
27 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 76–7)
Summary:
Specimens obtained from Charles Martins will be most interesting.
Comments on QdeB’s book [Physiologie comparée (1862)].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Will send portion of copied manuscript [of Variation 2: 8–10] for WB to examine. Asks about inherited abnormalities of the eye.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Sends a sentence, quoting JP, on inherited peculiarities in eye-brows. Asks whether he may use it in his chapter on inheritance [Variation, ch. 12].
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