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DCP-LETT-3039

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 225–6
Summary:

List of references on orchid structure and fertilisation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 123
Summary:

Orchid anatomy.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3305

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 124
Summary:

Orchid homologies.

Sensitive responses in Catasetum.

Acropera becoming clear.

T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3307

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 86
Summary:

Reports events at Down;

has been doing good work on the homologies of orchids.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 77
Summary:

Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3309

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 127
Summary:

Rostellum of Masdevallia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 125
Summary:

JDH’s Fernando Po case.

Madeiran fauna pre-glacial according to Oswald Heer.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3311

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 126, 129b
Summary:

Orchid anatomy: homologies of column vascularisation.

Primula paper sent to Linnean Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3312

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1861
Source of text:
DAR 91: 83
Summary:

Refers CD to a paper which he ought to know: Ch. Fermond, "Faits pour servir à l’histoire générale de la fécondation chez les végétaux", Recueil des travaux de la Société d’émulation pour les sciences pharmaceutiques 3 (1859).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3313

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1861
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 63–4
Summary:

Discusses observations of his own and of John Torrey on dimorphism, especially in Amsinckia.

Is trying to find specimens of Houstonia for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3315

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 128, 129a
Summary:

CD fears he has misinterpreted vascularisation of butterfly orchid flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3318

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 130
Summary:

Homologies of orchid flower vascularisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
15 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 89
Summary:

Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3320

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 3
Summary:

Describes in detail his day at home and at the bank in Southampton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 131
Summary:

JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.

Faunal distribution and the glacial period.

Orchid homologies.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3325

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:
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DCP-LETT-3326

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:
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DCP-LETT-3327

From:
William Hugh Gower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1861
Source of text:
DAR 165: 81
Summary:

Sends notes on fertilisation of Victoria regia tending to show that impregnation with foreign pollen increases productivity of seeds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3329

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:
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DCP-LETT-3331

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1861
Source of text:
DAR 111: 73–4
Summary:

Remarks about Labiatae, Linum, Oxalis and Viola occasioned by hearing CD’s paper ["Two forms of Primula", read 21 Nov 1861, Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Contributor:
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