From:
Richard Trevor Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr? 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 164
Summary:
Encloses strawberry blossoms used in his crossing experiments.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–11] Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 183, DAR 177: 86 (fragile)
Summary:
Studying self-sterility, particularly in Oncidium, where abortion occurs consistently but stigma functions normally. His hybrid orchid crosses show sterility occurs capriciously. Thus it is not a "special endowment".
Disputes Asa Gray’s and Hermann Crüger’s view of rostellar germination.
Doubts absolute sterility of Catasetum.
Disappointed by results with homomorphic cowslips.
Contributor:
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From:
James Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 59
Summary:
Sends CD seeds of Cattleya crispa as requested [see Collected papers 2: 77–8].
Anticipates success for his attempts to cross orchids artificially. Has not had a single seed germinate from a pod that was not produced by artificial crossing.
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From:
Arthur Rawson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 22
Summary:
Conducted crosses on Gladiolus varieties exactly according to CD’s letter. Flowers of same variety are self-sterile, whether from the same plant or not.
Contributor:
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From:
Arthur Rawson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 23
Summary:
Provides evidence of self-sterility in Gladiolus.
Has observed three seed-leaves in some Dianthus seedlings.
Cannot cross, or grow from seed, Dielytra spectabilis.
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 205
Summary:
Has seen some curious hybrid ducks and geese of Bartlett’s. Bartlett will do experiments suggested by CD when he has time.
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 39
Summary:
JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".
Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 74
Summary:
Preparations under way to move to London account for delay in thanking CD for his review [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
His book is finished, and he is sending a copy to CD; owing to the great expense few copies will be sent to reviewers.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 132
Summary:
The war is nearly finished, "rebeldom is ""gone up"" ".
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 12] Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 87
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Has not published much because he would be ignored as a gardener; hence he is looking for a foreign appointment.
Has prepared orchid sterility paper at CD’s suggestion [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].
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From:
David Thomas Ansted
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 74
Summary:
Is ready to make some arrangement to repay CD’s bond. Has written to F. Ransome to help arrange repayment and wants CD to write his opinion of a fair scheme.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 133
Summary:
Hopes CD will finish and bring out his book on variation.
AG will publish extracts of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic analogy [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–94].
Contributor:
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 14 Apr 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 155
Summary:
Asks CD whether he knows of "anything worth looking at" that has appeared abroad on his theory of the origin of species.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 171: 69
Summary:
Thanks CD for specimens which show that an abnormality in one genus is normal in another, which bears on CD’s views on descent.
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 21
Summary:
The ovule of Primula is amphitropous or what J. Georg Agardh calls apotropo-amphitropous [see Theoria systematis plantarum (1858), tab. 24, fig. 5–6].
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From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 18–19
Summary:
Difference in plumage of Ardeola, a species of heron, in summer and winter. [See Descent 2: 190.]
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From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 164: 137
Summary:
Discusses having skull photographed and a cast made.
Contributor:
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From:
William Hepworth Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 162: 186
Summary:
Thinks CD’s letter ["The doctrine of heterogeny", Collected papers 2: 78–80] will appear "with a clearer field and to better effect" if delayed a week, since next issue [of Athenæum] has Lyell’s reply to Hugh Falconer, and W. B. Carpenter’s report on the Abbéville jaw.
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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.
Contributor:
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From:
David Thomas Ansted
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 75
Summary:
Was unable to see Ransome [to find out whether DTA’s shares in the patent had earned any income so he could repay CD] but believes Ransome’s work will be profitable. Bemoans his own constant financial misfortune and asks CD to give up the deed of his loan to him, on the promise that if the shares ever yield any income, CD will be paid.
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