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DCP-LETT-6710

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 137
Summary:

Sends paper on mechanisms of cross-fertilisation in flowers ["Note on Parnassia palustris", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1871): 24–31].

Studying how fertilisation takes place without the aid of insects in winter varieties.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6724

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 76: B176–7
Summary:

Sends CD some notes [missing] on the mode of fertilisation of winter-flowering plants, and outlines his conclusions regarding the different types of winter-flowerers and the means by which they are fertilised.

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DCP-LETT-6978F

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Nature
Date:
8 Nov 1869
Source of text:
Nature 1 (1869): 58
Summary:

Discusses cross-fertilisation in Vinca.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6980

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
9 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
Provenance unknown: formerly Sang Collection of Autographs and Manuscripts, Illinois Institute of Technology
Summary:

Returns proofs of a notice which he finds "highly honourable" to himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8303F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
[before 16 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 13 (1873): 152
Summary:

Discussed observations made in 1863 of Impatiens pollen and humble-bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8227

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
29 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
Kōbunzo (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

Asks AWB for a reference to a paper;

thanks him for his generous review of the last edition [6th] of the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8640

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 138
Summary:

Proposes establishing a quarterly journal for longer, illustrated articles of some popular appeal. Seeks CD’s support.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9350

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
11 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.438)
Summary:

Asks about woodblocks of illustrations for Climbing plants [1875].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8811

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 139
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.

Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].

Other publication plans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8898

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
5 May [1873]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8905

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 140
Summary:

Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller on fertilisation [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].

Publication plans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8976

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 141
Summary:

Believes some flowers fail to produce seed because of the access of too great a quantity of pollen. Asks for CD’s opinion and references.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9648

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 142
Summary:

Sends papers and references.

Reports his microscopic observations on Drosera and other plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9653

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
22 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 84
Summary:

Thanks for sending papers by Hermann Hoffmann.

Discusses spiral cells in Drosera and Pinguicula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9660

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
27 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 85
Summary:

Returns copy of Botanische Zeitung.

Responds to comments on Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9884

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 143
Summary:

Has found the relation of pollen-grain size to style size in Primula to be the opposite of CD’s view; asks whether there is an error or just remarkable variation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10074

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
17 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 86
Summary:

Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10300

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
16 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 87
Summary:

Arranges to visit AWB.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10302

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 144
Summary:

Is delighted CD plans to call on him.

Wants to discuss botanical work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
[17 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 88
Summary:

Declines invitation to breakfast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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