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DCP-LETT-4540

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
19 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 372
Summary:

Discusses fertilisation of flowers by bees. Thanks JTM for drawings.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4563

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
1[7] July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 373
Summary:

Discusses dimorphism in flowers. Describes his experiments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4914

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
13 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 374
Summary:

Discusses self-fertilisation in bee and spider orchids. Asks JTM to conduct experiment.

Comments on plates [see J. T. Moggridge’s contribution to Flora of Mentone and winter flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to Genoa London 1866, 1871. Part II dated 1865; Part I, 1866].

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DCP-LETT-5277

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
13 Nov [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 375
Summary:

Discusses fertilisation of peas by bees. Asks for seeds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
1 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 376
Summary:

Hopes JTM’s health will improve.

Asks for information about crosses of peas.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6777

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
7 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 146: 377
Summary:

Glad JTM intends to write a paper. Discusses JTM’s research on Arbutus.

CD’s riding accident.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7830

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
22 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.399)
Summary:

Thanks JTM for information on ants.

Mentions letter "from a Texas gentleman" Gideon Lincecum describing ants that plant seeds [see 3082].

Notes that fly orchid is unattractive to insects. Asks JTM to attempt fertilisation experiment with this plant.

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DCP-LETT-8550

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
9 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 378
Summary:

Discusses JTM’s research on habits of insects. "How incomparably more valuable are such researches than the mere description of a thousand species."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8805

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
10 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 379
Summary:

Much obliged for seeds. Will expose seeds to chemical vapours.

Comments on JTM’s spider experiments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9030

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
27 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 380
Summary:

Comments on experiments of touching seeds with acid.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9349

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
10 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 146: 381
Summary:

Criticises paper by Ziegler [see 9339].

Acid experiments on seeds have failed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9490

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
12 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 382
Summary:

Did not know Duval-Jouve was an evolutionist.

Delighted at JTM’s success with spiders.

On JTM’s experiments with acids on seeds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4567

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A29–30
Summary:

Sends seeds of Trichonema and bulb and leaves of Romulea rollii, plus specimens showing two forms of Primula marginata.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4570

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A25a, A25b
Summary:

Offers notes on Romulea rollii with sketch of a dissection.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4835

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 202
Summary:

Sends fresh plants from France: Lythrum graefferi, Romulea.

Does CD know Pulmonaria is dimorphic?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4915

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 171.2: 203
Summary:

Thanks for "Climbing plants".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4957

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 210
Summary:

Sends a tin full of Ophrys by his brother, who should take about 60 hours to reach Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5008A

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR Pamphlet collection G368 (bound in part of Moggridge 1865–8)
Summary:

Is sending Ophrys plants marked as CD requested as wild or under cultivation. Discusses arrangements for a scheme planned for 1867 and his method for marking his Ophrys specimens.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5084

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 205
Summary:

Sends a box of orchids.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5096

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 206
Summary:

Sends plants from France.

J. B. E. Bornet of Antibes, working in G. A. Thuret’s garden, finds Cistus hybrids do not follow the old dictum of having the mother’s foliage and the father’s habit. Bornet is engaged in long-term study.

JTM seeks invitation to Down.

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