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DCP-LETT-1188F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date:
[10 July 1848]
Source of text:
Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124
Summary:

Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

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DCP-LETT-6178

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 163: 14/2; DAR 164: 40
Summary:

Raises a question about a statement in Orchids; his observations differ.

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DCP-LETT-6183

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 41
Summary:

Is confirmed about the bending of the fly orchid pollinia. [See "Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 141.]

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DCP-LETT-6229

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 42
Summary:

Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.

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DCP-LETT-6361

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 43
Summary:

Sends a paper he has written [on scarlet runner].

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DCP-LETT-6373

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 44
Summary:

Encouraged by CD’s reply. Sends another paper, on blue Lobelia.

Asks advice on books.

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DCP-LETT-6381

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 45
Summary:

Sends an addition to Lobelia paper; admires adaptations for fertilisation.

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DCP-LETT-6391

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 46
Summary:

Wonderful how every flower one looks at is explained by, and throws light on, the fertilising process.

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DCP-LETT-6432

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 47
Summary:

Delighted with mechanisms of Salvia and Viola. How can anyone who compares structure of Viola cornuta and common violet still suppose them to be separate creations?

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DCP-LETT-6445

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 48
Summary:

The conversion of Asa Gray must be a pleasure.

CD’s doctrine accounts for and gives a vera causa of structures.

Discusses F. Hildebrand’s book.

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DCP-LETT-6470

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 49; Linnean Society of London, MS Case 6B, No. 299
Summary:

Thinks CD’s views of insect agency and crossing might explain structure and variations of papilionaceous flowers. Lists five points. Asks CD’s opinion.

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DCP-LETT-6485

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 50
Summary:

Thanks CD for advice to watch the action and not only the structure [of plants].

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DCP-LETT-6556

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 51
Summary:

Red tape leaves no time for botany.

New ministry laudably attempting economies.

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DCP-LETT-6727

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 111: A79–80
Summary:

Justifies his use of term "degraded" by comparing contrivances for cross-fertilisation in different species of Viola.

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DCP-LETT-6739

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 52
Summary:

Thanks CD for lesson that it is wrong to call any plant which lives and thrives "degraded".

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DCP-LETT-6857

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 53
Summary:

Speculates on the function of the separate stamen of papilionaceous flowers.

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DCP-LETT-6861

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 54
Summary:

Will work on papilionaceous flowers since CD encourages it. Discusses function of hairs in certain plants.

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DCP-LETT-6898

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 55
Summary:

Asks CD’s opinion of a paper he has written on papilionaceous flowers.

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DCP-LETT-6929

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 56
Summary:

Federico Delpino’s book has very nearly all that THF has found and a great deal more.

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DCP-LETT-6935

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 57
Summary:

On the fertilisation of Tacsonia and Passiflora.

Encloses a poem, "The Biological Teleologist", written after reading Delpino.

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