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From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 111
Summary:

On crossing Aegilops.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
23 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 361
Summary:

Thanks for specimen of Aegilops flour.

Comments on ASW’s papers.

Cites paper by Wilhelm Rimpau on self- and cross-fertilisation in wheat ["Die Züchtung neuer Getreide-Varietäten", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 6

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 112
Summary:

Fertilisation of wheat.

Would like to borrow Wilhelm Rimpau’s papers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 394
Summary:

Thanks ASW for Aegilops seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
6 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 362
Summary:

Thanks for essays by ASW ["Experiments with turnip seeds", Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 13 (1876–9): 25–39, and a short notice, "Experiments in singling turnips"] and Aegilops seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 113
Summary:

On germination of wheat.

Can supply Drosera if CD wants some.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
16 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 363
Summary:

Thanks for second lot of Aegilops seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
24 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 364
Summary:

Sends specimens of Russian wheat variety kubanka, which after sowing for two years degenerates into a different variety, saxonka. Suggests that ASW conduct experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
29 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 365
Summary:

Thanks for specimen.

Always was sceptical of James Buckman’s experiment; heard afterwards that cruel trick was played on him.

Glad ASW is willing to look into Russian wheat case.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 86: B19–20
Summary:

Observations on dimorphic and trimorphic plants of Scotland.

On fertilisation of Scrophularia nodosa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
9 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 7339: 57)
Summary:

Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea

and about wasps on Scrophularia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 114
Summary:

Sends results of the first year’s experiments with the Russian wheat varieties sent by CD [see 11483].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
5 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 367
Summary:

Discusses ASW’s discovery of error in Russian belief about wheat varieties. Suggests that he publish paper in Journal of Royal Agricultural Society. [Results actually published in Gard. Chron. n.s. 11 (1879): 622–4.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 [June] 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 366
Summary:

Mentions wheat varieties sent by Governor General of Turkestan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
30 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 368
Summary:

Package of wheat varieties from Russia lost in transit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project