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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 60
Summary:

Thanks for "Two forms of Primula" [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Praise for Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26–7 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 61
Summary:

Has done extensive plant hybridisation: strawberry, raspberry, Rhododendron.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 62
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s experimental suggestions. Will count seeds of hybrid crosses.

Requests suggestions for Edinburgh Botanical Society expedition to British Columbia.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 63
Summary:

On holiday; cannot answer CD’s questions.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 64
Summary:

Has done Primula polyanthus experiment CD suggested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 65
Summary:

Bryanthus erectus, said by [D. D.?] Cunningham to be a hybrid, has been found wild in North America.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 66
Summary:

CD is right on heterostyly in Primula. High praise. Has confirmed it with Primula polyanthus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 110: 24
Summary:

Sends sprig of Linum luteum corymbiflorum [?]. CD is right about its being dimorphic.

Will try some odd strawberry crosses this summer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project