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DCP-LETT-6134

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 160
Summary:

Has studied Variation with interest.

Cannot quite follow CD on reversion and Pangenesis,

but is amazed at CD’s observations and method.

Comments on varieties of asses, kidney beans, and artichokes.

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DCP-LETT-6147

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 161
Summary:

Discusses Hildebrand

and criticises Delpino.

Asks to borrow C. K. Sprengel’s Entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur [1793].

Botanists have no explanation of the case of Viola odorata and other showy flowers being sterile while inconspicuous ones bear seed.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6405

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 29 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 237
Summary:

Asks CD to sign enclosed certificate first, as he does not know T. H. Farrer personally. [On top part of first two pages of a letter to Hooker from H. C. Rothery about Farrer’s nomination for Linnean Society]

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