From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 122
Summary:
Writes of dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A8, A10
Summary:
Thanks WED for measuring cowslip pollen. Sends dimorphic flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
4 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031)
Summary:
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 13
Summary:
Experiment instructions.
Contributor:
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From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 181
Summary:
Would like to come to Down to visit.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 105
Summary:
Encloses MS of his paper ["On individual sterility of Oncidium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 162–7].
His next will be on Passiflora, Disemma, and Tacsonia [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 197–206].
When he receives proofs of his Primula paper he will add CD’s case about equal-styled cowslip.
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 110: A75–6
Summary:
Diagrams of short- and long-styled Pulmonaria under magnification.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B27
Summary:
Henry Holland sends thanks for Zoonomia.
Sir Henry would not expect podophyllin to be good for CD.
Contributor:
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From:
William Jenner
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[after 7 May 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 47
Summary:
Prescribes "Sod. exsic." with the podophyllin for CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 178: 183
Summary:
Cannot give information about the box of Oxalis bulbs that his brother [Roland Trimen] has forwarded to CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 106: B12–13
Summary:
On the Borneo cave exploration.
ARW will send his contribution to theory of origin of man. The vast mental and cranial differences between man and apes, whereas structural differences in other parts of body are small. The problem of explaining diversity of human races along with the stability of man’s form during all historical epochs. Discussion with "Anthropologicals" [following reading of ARW’s paper, "The origin of human races", before the Anthropological Society, 1 Mar 1864].
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A66–7
Summary:
Observations on style length of 150 flowers of Pulmonaria [angustifolia]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 105.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[14–17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A3
Summary:
Instructions on measuring pollen of dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5
Summary:
Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 218–19
Summary:
Is burning to hear CD’s reaction to Wallace’s excellent paper on man ["Origin of human races and the antiquity of man", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Wallace’s disclaimer of credit for natural selection is high-minded.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 233
Summary:
CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Pleased at Bates’s appointment
and Wallace’s paper.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 106
Summary:
Thanks for communicating Oncidium sterility paper [see 4485] to Linnean Society.
Surprised that CD’s seedlings of non-dimorphic cowslip breed true.
Surprised also that the red primrose he sent reverts to wild form. He had reasoned from red’s infertility with yellow that it was an established variety. Tries to correlate inheritance of colour and sterility between varieties.
Contributor:
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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 142: 94
Summary:
Cover containing some seeds mentioned in the letter to H. C. Watson, 28 May [1864], f.2 (S 4512).
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. 17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 80
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 80
Summary:
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
Contributor:
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