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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
19 May [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/2)
Summary:

Thanks THF for correcting the error in Orchids.

Asks him to find out what insects visit the fly orchid and for what purpose.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
5 June 1868
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/3)
Summary:

"I have seen the action on Ophrys exactly as you describe and am thoroughly ashamed of my inaccuracy."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
15 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/4)
Summary:

Comments on THF’s MS [on fertilisation of scarlet runners]. Suggests publication, though CD anticipated main features ten years before. Is amused at the caution with which THF put his case that the final end [of the contrivances] was crossing distinct individuals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
19 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms299/5)
Summary:

Will send THF’s paper [on scarlet runners] to Annals and Magazine of Natural History with a note recommending publication [see 6384].

Suggests books on Lobelia.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
24 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/6)
Summary:

Informs THF that Annals and Magazine of Natural History will publish his paper [see 6384].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
29 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/9)
Summary:

Suggests THF write a paper on violets. Asa Gray, once a sceptic, now declares he is convinced whole structure of a flower is adapted for a cross with another individual.

Urges THF not to give up Pangenesis lightly. "It has thrown light on my mind in regard [to] a great series of complex phenomena."

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
26 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/7)
Summary:

Advises THF that best plan is to investigate the part certain structures play with all plants or orders, instead of describing means of fertilisation in particular plants. Naturalists value observations far more than reasoning.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
6 May [1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/1)
Summary:

Dislikes the use of the term "degradation" as applied to the closed flowers of Viola species. Species with such self-fertilising flowers also have flowers adapted for crossing. The development of closed flowers adapted to ensure a sufficient stock of seed is progressive.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Aug [1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/8)
Summary:

THF’s view, if confirmed, pleases CD in that what appears a mere morphological character is found to be of use. Carl Nägeli has been attacking him on this head.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/17)
Summary:

Sympathises with THF at being forestalled by Delpino, but urges him to publish confirmation.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
20 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/10)
Summary:

Comments on notes made by THF on Passiflora and Tacsonia. Suggests he examine more species. Recalls his own observations on P. princeps and Tacsonia.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[27 Nov 1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12)
Summary:

Encloses extract from a letter from Fritz Müller about humming-birds visiting Passiflora, "as a caution about Passiflora in contrast with Tacsonia".

[Signed with CD’s name by Emma Darwin.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 [May 1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/13)
Summary:

Encloses part of letter from Fritz Müller on Passiflora, with seeds.

Is endeavouring to have included in next census a question as to whether the parents in each household are cousins.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
28 May [1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14)
Summary:

Fertilisation of barberries.

Passiflora.

Is continuing his experiments on the comparative growth of crossed and self-fertilised plants.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[29 June 1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/11)
Summary:

Encloses seeds from Fritz Müller, of a species of Passiflora, fertilised by a humble-bee.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
2 [Mar 1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14a)
Summary:

Was aware of Maine’s view but never thought of its extension to morals. Cannot avoid thinking that personal property like flint tools must have "strictly belonged to individuals as much as a bone to a dog".

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
21 June [1871]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Cullum M411)
Summary:

Confesses to intense hatred of the bee [orchid] for its anomalous perpetual self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/18)
Summary:

THF’s article in Nature ["The fertilisation of a few papilionaceous flowers", 6 (1872): 478–80, 498–501] is extremely good.

Suspects he now has answer to why common peas and sweetpeas hardly ever intercross, a point which half drove CD mad for years.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
28 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/19)
Summary:

Recommends Hermann Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/20)
Summary:

Asks THF to examine old flowers of Coronilla for holes bored by bees.

Is investigating whether drops of water injure leaves.

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