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DCP-LETT-3304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 123
Summary:

Orchid anatomy.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3305

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 124
Summary:

Orchid homologies.

Sensitive responses in Catasetum.

Acropera becoming clear.

T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.

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DCP-LETT-3306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 195)
Summary:

CD is sending an orchid flower; asks JL to identify it.

Also asks if JL can spare a dried flower of another orchid (name forgotten) [which CD describes] so that he can try to trace its ducts or spiral vessels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3039

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 225–6
Summary:

List of references on orchid structure and fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4329

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
3 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 52 (EH 88206035)
Summary:

Thanks for "multitudinous" references.

Thanks Hooker for orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3307

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 86
Summary:

Reports events at Down;

has been doing good work on the homologies of orchids.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 77
Summary:

Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3309

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 127
Summary:

Rostellum of Masdevallia.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 125
Summary:

JDH’s Fernando Po case.

Madeiran fauna pre-glacial according to Oswald Heer.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3311

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 126, 129b
Summary:

Orchid anatomy: homologies of column vascularisation.

Primula paper sent to Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3312

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1861
Source of text:
DAR 91: 83
Summary:

Refers CD to a paper which he ought to know: Ch. Fermond, "Faits pour servir à l’histoire générale de la fécondation chez les végétaux", Recueil des travaux de la Société d’émulation pour les sciences pharmaceutiques 3 (1859).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3314

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3313

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1861
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 63–4
Summary:

Discusses observations of his own and of John Torrey on dimorphism, especially in Amsinckia.

Is trying to find specimens of Houstonia for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3315

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 128, 129a
Summary:

CD fears he has misinterpreted vascularisation of butterfly orchid flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
12 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.270)
Summary:

Writes at Lindley’s suggestion to ask whether DN can send several orchid specimens. Describes his work in preparation for Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3317

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
12 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Returns a letter from a Mr Walsh – "a clear-headed man on my side". What he says about sea trout in lochs would make a good case for CD if borne out by professional ichthyologists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3318F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Guépin
Date:
14 Nov 1861
Source of text:
Archives Départmentales de Maine-et-Loire (24 J 1, pièce no. 32)
Summary:

Has read about JPG’s article on the fertilisation of orchids in Annales de la Societé Linnéenne d’Angers [1853], but has been unable to secure a copy. Seeks information about the role of bees in distributing pollen masses and about the varieties of orchids in Angers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3318

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 130
Summary:

Homologies of orchid flower vascularisation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
15 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 89
Summary:

Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
16 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 196)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for many valuable dried specimens [of orchids]. Has been promised Catasetum and some Dendrobium by Mr Rucker; has written also to Lady Dorothy [Nevill].

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