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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 60
Summary:

Thanks for "Two forms of Primula" [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Praise for Orchids.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
Date:
20 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 1
Summary:

Discusses hybrid strawberry–raspberry

and his research on Primula and Linum.

Suggests breeding experiments.

Doubtful about Donald Beaton’s statement about Pelargonium.

Mentions experiments on peloric flowers.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26–7 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 61
Summary:

Has done extensive plant hybridisation: strawberry, raspberry, Rhododendron.

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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 62
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s experimental suggestions. Will count seeds of hybrid crosses.

Requests suggestions for Edinburgh Botanical Society expedition to British Columbia.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
Date:
2 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 2
Summary:

Suggests collecting seeds at different heights from British Columbia.

Describes experiment on seeds from short anthers.

C. V. Naudin writes he has discovered cause of hybrid sterility.

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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 63
Summary:

On holiday; cannot answer CD’s questions.

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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 64
Summary:

Has done Primula polyanthus experiment CD suggested.

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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 65
Summary:

Bryanthus erectus, said by [D. D.?] Cunningham to be a hybrid, has been found wild in North America.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
Date:
2 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 3
Summary:

Convinced length of stamens has no relation to powers of fertilisation in many plants.

Suggests experiments on Pelargonium and Phlox.

Advises about use of microscope.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 66
Summary:

CD is right on heterostyly in Primula. High praise. Has confirmed it with Primula polyanthus.

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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 110: 24
Summary:

Sends sprig of Linum luteum corymbiflorum [?]. CD is right about its being dimorphic.

Will try some odd strawberry crosses this summer.

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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 67
Summary:

Will find out identity of Robert Trail.

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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 68, 68a
Summary:

Offers to send Benoît de Maillet’s Telliamed [1750].

Encloses a letter [16 May 1867] from John Anderson, a nurseryman, giving information on budding of blotched ash at the nursery.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
Date:
22 May [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 4
Summary:

Obliged for case of grafted ash.

Asks about pods of Arabis.

Would like to borrow Maillet [Telliamed (1750)].

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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 69
Summary:

Has crossed pods of Arabis blepharophylla larger than normal ones.

Sends Telliamed as gift.

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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 70
Summary:

Details of Arabis crosses. Seed-pods of A. blepharophylla and A. soyeri crosses are longer and wider than those of either species.

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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 71
Summary:

Will send proto-Lamarckian pamphlet [1799] by Charles White, if CD wishes. It has a graduated scale of types from snipe to man.

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