From:
Down Friendly Society
To:
Bromley Savings Bank
Date:
[before 14 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 3v
Summary:
Notification of the Society’s intent to withdraw funds from its account.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 23, 41–2, 81–2
Summary:
Sends observations on Valeriana officinalis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
14 July 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.187
Summary:
Relating to writing for the Cornhill Magazine, and spare copies of the Cape Results.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 July [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (70)
Summary:
Adaptations of orchid flowers. Believes the structure of all irregular flowers is adaptation to insect fertilisation.
Linum grandiflorum distinguishes its own pollen so that when placed on stigma of same flower the pollen-tube is not even exserted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166: 199
Summary:
Offers to translate Orchids, since H. G. Bronn has died.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[after 14 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 12
Summary:
Leonard’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Erythraea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
