From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 95
Summary:
His observations of "selection" in growth of seedling trees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 93
Summary:
Answers D. Beaton’s criticism of Gärtner’s work, defending his results in crossing experiments and vindicating the memory of "one of the most laborious lovers of truth who ever lived".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1863
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 78)
Summary:
Is pleased that CD has [Roland] Trimen to collect specimens of Cape orchids. Suggests directions for securing dry specimens of what he draws.
Identifies Disa barbata and D. Cornuta of the Ophridiae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project