From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July [1863]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 18)
Summary:
Could not find Anchusa but will go out and find some.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Could not find Anchusa but will go out and find some.
Discusses heterostyly in Hottonia.
Criticises L. C. Treviranus’ statements on Primula longiflora’s having short-styled form.
Describes his results with crossing different coloured primroses. Will let CD, when he reads his paper, decide whether his finding white and red varieties perfectly sterile when crossed, yet fertile inter se, ought to be published.
Difficulty in getting his orchid paper published in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.