From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[14–17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A3
Summary:
Instructions on measuring pollen of dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A8, A10
Summary:
Thanks WED for measuring cowslip pollen. Sends dimorphic flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
4 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031)
Summary:
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 13
Summary:
Experiment instructions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5
Summary:
Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 233
Summary:
CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Pleased at Bates’s appointment
and Wallace’s paper.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 236
Summary:
CD’s pleasure at JDH’s willingness to help Scott find a position in India.
Naudin underrates contamination of his experiments by insects. Thus CD doubts Naudin’s results on rapidity and universality of reversion in hybrids.
Wallace’s paper on man [see 4494] reflects his genius, although CD does not fully agree with it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
28 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 51
Summary:
Thanks HCW for Lythrum specimens.
CD has at last finished his Lythrum paper. ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 234
Summary:
Forwards two character references for John Scott, for position JDH is arranging in India.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 235
Summary:
Request for climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 122
Summary:
Writes of dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[19 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 186
Summary:
Mentions WED’s extraordinary discovery of some pollen-grains of different sizes. The observations must be followed up.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[20 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A7
Summary:
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
