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DCP-LETT-3585G

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 13)
Summary:

Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3675

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 162: 90
Summary:

WED has been collecting Lythrum plants. Numerical proportions of the three forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3676

From:
John Obadiah Westwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:

Bee with adhering orchid pollinia lent to Charles Daubeny. Pollen-masses shaken off but if CD still interested he is welcome to specimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[2–3 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 70, DAR 210.6: 102
Summary:

Discusses Lythrum, "a really wonderful case"; asks WED to make observations and collect specimens; sends a diagram which shows what crosses he believes are fertile.

Would like George to watch bees visiting the flowers; wants some pods from different forms to compare shapes and count seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3677

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 91
Summary:

Sends specimens of the three forms of Lythrum. Remarks on the numerical proportions of different forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3681

From:
Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 64
Summary:

Proportions of different forms of Lythrum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3679

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 67–9
Summary:

Gives J. T. Rothrock’s observations on the structure and fertility of the two forms of Houstonia. Mentions his own observations on Rhexia virginica and Gymnadenia tridentata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3680

From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug [1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 57
Summary:

Finds many beautiful Epipactis specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4373

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams; Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
4 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 127
Summary:

Their enumeration [of forms of Lythrum?] is invaluable. He will write later to explain what he is trying to prove about Lythrum through laborious crosses.

Asks for flowers of both forms of Hottonia to measure pollen and compare stigmas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3683

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 32 bis, DAR 162: 92
Summary:

Has read CD’s long letter on Lythrum and agrees with it. Is examining the pollen of the different types.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3671

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 5 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 90.1
Summary:

Describes insects caught while visiting Lythrum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3674

From:
Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:

Looked for Hottonia but with little success.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3684

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 4–5
Summary:

Muscular fibres of whale no larger than those of bee – evidence of a community of origin.

Problem of the abortive wings of ostrich in relation to conditions of their survival.

Contributor:
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WCP1850

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 August 1862
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B4-5
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 27
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 145-146]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3646

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
8 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.2)
Summary:

Asks HCW’s help with his experiments on Lythrum salicaria, for which he needs flowers of the rare Lythrum hyssopifolia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3685

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (71)
Summary:

Believes Lythrum is trimorphic. Asks AG for seeds of plants he suspects are polymorphic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3686

From:
Thomas White Woodbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:

Breeding cells of Ligurian bee are larger than those of common bee. Thanks CD for comb.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3687

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
12 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

WBT’s "too kind and flattering" article on Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3688

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18–19 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 111, 116
Summary:

Notes and observations on orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1851

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 August [1862]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 28-29
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 146-147]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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