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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1870]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 141
Summary:

Sends CD "L’applicazione della teoria Darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori" [Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2 (1870)]. Continues to support vitalism and teleology.

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 146
Summary:

Transformism explains rudimentary organs, and teratology, which are otherwise inexplicable.

Looking forward to publication of Descent

and CD’s expected book on "Variation in nature" [see Variation 1: 4].

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 147
Summary:

Responds to CD’s request for Canna seeds.

Studying dichogamy in Lotus. Describes mechanism that pumps pollen on to a visiting bee. Corrects Axell on Lotus.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
1 June [1870]
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks FD for seeds of Canna.

Still thinks it would be worth FD’s while looking at the fertilisation of Lotus; does not think Frank Darwin has exaggerated the novelty of the contrivance.

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 111: A77–8
Summary:

Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.

Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.

Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 148
Summary:

Sends paper on Artemesia.

Praise for Descent.

Has talked to St George Mivart about CD’s health.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
22 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:

Will send FD’s work [Studi sopra un lignaggio anemofilo delle composte (1871)] to Nature for review.

CD’s health has been poor all summer – he doubts that he will ever "have the strength to publish on Variability under a state of Nature".

Hopes to publish on cross- and self-fertilisation next summer.

Encloses his photo and asks for FD’s.

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 149
Summary:

Praise of CD. Acknowledges his indebtedness to CD for defining the subject of plant fecundation.

Expecting CD’s work on the effects of cross-fertilisation.

CD has put him in touch with George Bentham.

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 150
Summary:

Going on circumnavigation voyage aboard the Garibaldi.

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 151
Summary:

Left the Garibaldi at Rio de Janeiro.

Phylogeny of aphids.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
1 May 1873
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:

Asks whether, in Italy, varieties of Lathyrus odoratus, Pisum sativum, and Phaseolus multiflorus must be grown separately to come true.

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 77: 152–3
Summary:

Sends information on Lathyrus odoratus, Phaseolus multiflorus and Pisum sativum.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
25 June [1873]
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:

Discusses role of insects in crossing varieties of Lathyrus odoratus and other species.

Comments on Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)],

and Anton Kerner ["Die Schutzmittel des Pollens", Ber. Naturwiss. Med. Ver. Innsbruck, 3 (1873): 100–68].

Admires FD’s work on anemophilous plants.

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 152
Summary:

Sends last part of his book [Ulteriori observazioni sulla dicogamia (1868–74)] [osservazioni!?] and describes contents.

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 153
Summary:

Looking forward to publication of Insectivorous plants, which he will review.

Paul Mantegazza has criticised FD on insectivorous plants

and CD on sexual selection; FD maintains dichogamy in plants supports sexual selection.

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 154
Summary:

Thanks for Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874], which confirms some of his observations,

and for Insectivorous plants, which he praises.

Suggests that a book integrating knowledge of plant–animal interactions be written by a Darwinist.

Defines biology as the science of external interactions.

German reception is far more positive than Italian.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
25 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks FD for the volumes of Revista Botanica [1874–5].

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 162: 155
Summary:

Has become Professor of Botany at Genoa.

Offers to send his paper on the necessity of out-crossing.

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 156
Summary:

Has reviewed Forms of flowers in Revista Botanica [(1877): 84–106].

CD’s treatment by the French Academy.

Hypothesises that the mollusc-like mantle of Balanus originates from a form of grafting.

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