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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 July 1860
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 45
Summary:

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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.135, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

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

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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:

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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:

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697)
Summary:

Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 692)
Summary:

Thanks GB for specimen [of Orchis pyramidalis].

Discusses a great difficulty with orchids: "Insects visit several species which never secrete an atom of honey." [See Orchids, p. 44ff.] Does GB know whether nectar is ever secreted and reabsorbed promptly?

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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 September 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.136, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

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Contributor:
Hooker Project
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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:

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From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 November 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, GEB1/9 George Bentham Papers, Correspondence, vol. 9, Sabine-Sykes
Summary:

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
9 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 693)
Summary:

Thanks GB for arranging for his paper ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63] and for his photograph.

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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:

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 688
Summary:

Requests more precise details about Oxalis, to which GB referred in his remarks on Primula.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 689)
Summary:

Would prefer to have Primula paper published in the Linnean Society’s Journal rather than Transactions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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].

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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.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 691)
Summary:

Thanks GB for valuable letter [3331].

Will follow his suggestion about violets.

Discusses differences between Thymus and Primula.

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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 December 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Colonial Floras, Kewensia, K9/655.59, ff. 59-63
Summary:

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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1862?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.138, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Undated letter of four pages over 1 folio.

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Hooker Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 January 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 49-52
Summary:

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