From:
Louis Rérolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 130
Summary:
French translation of Orchids will be published by Reinwald. Asks for CD’s new footnotes to be sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 19–20, DAR 178: 47
Summary:
Development of the horns of local sheep.
Results of breeding tailless pointers: of six puppies, three had stumps like parents.
Observations on Drosophyllum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 163
Summary:
Will have Fritz Müller’s letter ["On the modification of the stamens in a species of Begonia", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1871): 472–4] read at next Linnean Society meeting [read 3 June 1869].
Has given the seeds to Daniel Oliver.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Hellins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 138
Summary:
Notes sex ratios in Lepidoptera he is breeding.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hellier Baily
Date:
[10 May 1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Referee report on paper by Richard Spruce on sacs in Melastoma [see 6690]. CD says RS’s suggestions that sacs are inherited is not supported and should be deleted.
Contributor:
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