From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 110
Summary:
Discusses dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[10 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 111
Summary:
Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.
Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May [1863]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 15)
Summary:
Discusses dimorphism in linum and primula. Describes death of Mrs. Ashworth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 110: 62
Summary:
Sends observations on [Anchusa] plants from Isle of Wight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 76: B188–90
Summary:
Describes the structure of Corydalis and its arrangement for making pollen accessible to bees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 and 20 May 1863
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 16)
Summary:
Alarmed that CD did not see what WED saw in Corydalis lutea. Has found buckbean in the New Forest. Will get seeds of Corydalis claviculata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[4 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 55
Summary:
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project