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DCP-LETT-4100

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700)
Summary:

Sends GB a selection of reviews of the Origin from his collection of about 90, with his opinion of some of them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4120

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 701)
Summary:

Disagrees with GB when he says he is not up to treating the whole subject [the present state of the species question]. He is especially equipped to handle the "great subject of affinities in relation to descent and independent creation".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4176

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 May [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 711–13)
Summary:

Natural selection implies that a form remains unaltered unless an alteration is to its benefit. This is not inconsistent with some forms remaining stable for long periods. Natural selection must at present be grounded entirely on general considerations. Of details we are still greatly ignorant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4217

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
19 June [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 709–10)
Summary:

GB’s address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] pleased him as much as Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] disappointed him on species question. GB has done a "real good turn to the right side".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4232F

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 July 1863
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9)
Summary:

Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.

He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.

Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
7 July [1864]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 716)
Summary:

Asks for names of plants mentioned in an article in Natural History Review ["South European Floras", n.s. 4 (1864): 369–84] so he can get seeds.

Also would like specimens of the two forms of Aegiphila.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4562

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 July [1864]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 708)
Summary:

Thanks GB for specimens [of Aegiphila] and his information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5077F

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Jan 186[8]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105 f. 222
Summary:

HCW’s criticisms of CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5137

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
[July–Sept 1866]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 714)
Summary:

Asks GB to consider whether it is necessary for the Linnean Society to be so strict about the number of books members may borrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5220

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 Sept [1866]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 705–6)
Summary:

His memory deceived him about GB’s statement [on propagation of thistles].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5225

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 Oct 1866
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 707)
Summary:

Invites GB and wife to luncheon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6138

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 Apr 1868
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 703–4)
Summary:

Is not surprised that GB cannot digest Pangenesis, but it has been an immense relief to CD in tying together large classes of facts.

Sends names of men writing on crossing of plants. Criticises some French observations. Praises Hildebrand and Federico Delpino.

Sends pamphlets.

CD is experimenting on a large scale on difference in plants raised from self-fertilised and crossed seeds.

F. Hildebrand has produced a graft-hybrid which seems to lend important support to Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 May [1868]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 702)
Summary:

Sends Ernst Haeckel’s [Generelle] Morphologie [1866] and C. K. Sprengel’s book [Entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur (1793)].

A. Gaudry and L. Rütimeyer have declared in favour of CD’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6258

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
23 June 1868
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 677)
Summary:

Expresses thanks and pleasure at what GB has said about his book [Variation] in GB’s [Presidential] Address [to the Linnean Society, 1868, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1868): lvii–c]. "What you say about Pangenesis quite satisfies me".

CD discussed "bud-variation" to show that it was an error to believe all variability is due to sexual generation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6743

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 May [1869]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 680)
Summary:

Sends a letter (and seeds) from Fritz Müller about a strange monstrous form of Begonia found wild in Brazil. Asks GB whether it is worth communicating to Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7011

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
25 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 678–9)
Summary:

CD finds GB’s address interesting; assures him that he has never said GB was wrong on any point, but that there were differences between them, which he now thinks are not great.

Comments on specific parts of the address [see 6793]: colonisation, variability of large and small genera, descent from a single parent or pair of parents, rapid multiplication and change in species, isolation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4250

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
11 November 1862
Source of text:
RBGK MS English Letters, A-K, 1862/5 # 288
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday4253

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
14 November 1862
Source of text:
RBGK MS English Letters, A-K, 1862/5 # 289
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

JHC1103

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Francis Adams Sr.
Date:
2 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.1, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1104

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1860
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.3, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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