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LINNEAN1926

From:
George Bentham
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
6 Oct 1827
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/20/76, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends parcel of plants from [George] Arnott, just returned from excursion to Scotland. Sends copy of his work on Pyrenaean plants; apologises for delay; printed in a hasty manner. The last year so taken up with his legal studies that he has neglected botany, but time spent with Arnott and [William Jackson] Hooker has revived his interest; wrote to Montpellier, [France], to have his herbarium sent over.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

DCP-LETT-11267

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 111: A75–6
Summary:

Cites cases of leguminous plants whose cleistogamic flowers produce more seed than perfect flowers. [See Forms of flowers, p. 326.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2186

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 or 17 Dec 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 151
Summary:

Returns CD’s lists [sent with 2184]. Confusion in genera of Silene is great in continental botanic gardens. One would have to know whether C. F. v. Gärtner had the right names for species in his experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-58-08-23a

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 August 1858
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-M61-05-06

From:
George Bentham
To:
William Hooker
Date:
6 May 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Bentham Biographia, f. [16]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-05-16

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 May 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published copy of this letter see Daley (1927-8) pp. 92-3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-05-22

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
22 May 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published version of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 94. Also published, with elisions, in Moyal (1976) pp. 177-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-10-15

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 October 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published version of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 98. Also published in Moyal (1976) pp. 179-80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-11-16

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 November 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published copy of extracts of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 98
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3331

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1861
Source of text:
DAR 111: 73–4
Summary:

Remarks about Labiatae, Linum, Oxalis and Viola occasioned by hearing CD’s paper ["Two forms of Primula", read 21 Nov 1861, Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3332

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1861
Source of text:
DAR 109 (ser. 2): 121
Summary:

Lists pairs of Oxalis species with differing proportions of stamens and styles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-03-24

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 March 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For published extracts of this letter see Daley (1927-8) pp. 99-100
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-04-18

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 April 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For published extracts of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 127
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3554

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 152
Summary:

Thanks CD for his book [Orchids]. CD has opened a new field for observation and a new unexpected track to explore phenomena that had before appeared "irreconcilable with ordinary opinion and method shown in the organic world".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-05-19

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FVM-62-05-24

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 May 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-06-24

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 June 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-07-14

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
14 July 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-07-24

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 July 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens MelbournePublished in part in Moyal (1976) pp. 180-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FVM-62-08-07

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
7 August 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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