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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166: 199
Summary:

Offers to translate Orchids, since H. G. Bronn has died.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 200
Summary:

He and L. C. Treviranus have repeated many of CD’s orchid observations with the same results. Sends his paper ["Fruchtbildung der Orchideen", Bot. Ztg. 21 (1863): 329–33, 337–45].

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 201
Summary:

Pleased CD has had his [FH’s] orchid paper published [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 169–74].

Extension of CD’s Primula heterostyly work.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 202
Summary:

Studying insect pollination in Salvia

and heterostyly in Pulmonaria officinalis which is similar to Linum case.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 203
Summary:

Sending his paper on tristyly in Oxalis.

Cannot attend botanical congress, where CD will be vice-president.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 204; DAR 49: 150
Summary:

Assures CD of his belief in descent from his first reading of Origin.

Describes a case of dichogamy.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 205
Summary:

Explains dichogamy in Aristolochia. C. K. Sprengel was wrong.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 166: 206
Summary:

Intends to begin a journal reviewing the botanical literature.

Sends his book [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 207
Summary:

Reports making graft-hybrid potatoes.

Has found direct action of pollen in Mays [Zea] crosses and apple-trees.

F. Delpino has asked for CD’s address.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 208
Summary:

Sends graft-hybrid notice.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 209
Summary:

Thanks CD for mentioning his Corydalis and Primula experiments in Variation.

Has become Professor of Botany at Freiburg.

Encloses specimen of Corydalis cava.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 210
Summary:

Potato graft-hybrid fails to give potatoes.

August Weismann requests Wallace’s address to find out about experiments on butterflies hinted at in Variation.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 166: 211
Summary:

Sends CD some seeds.

Has been experimenting with Oxalis crosses.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 212
Summary:

Praise for Descent.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 76: B179–80
Summary:

Sends results of his observations of cross- and self-fertilisation of Hypecoum grandiflorum and Eschscholzia californica [see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 331–2].

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 213
Summary:

No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 214
Summary:

Repeated maize crosses without success: i.e., in most cases yellow and red varieties did not produce fertile offspring.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 215
Summary:

Praise for Cross and self-fertilisation: most important point proved is benefit of crossing between related individuals grown under different conditions. This explains adaptive value of dispersal mechanisms.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 111: A84
Summary:

Regrets he cannot help on Oxalis question. He did not note the names of species with cleistogamic flowers as he thought they were sufficiently known.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 216
Summary:

Preoccupied by reorganisation of Botanic Garden.

Regards to Francis Darwin.

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