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JHC1327

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-7-1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.109-110, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1328

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 July 1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.111, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1329

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13?-7-1855?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.112, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1330

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 July 1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.113-114, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1333

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 July 1856
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.117-118, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1335

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 October 1856
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.119, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-2003

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 684)
Summary:

Asks GB for help in clearing up his problems about Leguminosae, in connection with his "wild bit of speculation on the crossing of plants" [see Natural selection, p. 71].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2005

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 685)
Summary:

Thanks GB for information on Leguminosae, especially about those with apetalous flowers and almost without anthers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2010

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 687)
Summary:

Thanks GB for information on apetalous flowers. "The whole order [Leguminosae] will remain my detestable enemies."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1336

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 April 1857?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.120-121, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1337

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 June 1857
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.122, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1338

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14 July 1857
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.123, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-2177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 682–3)
Summary:

Thanks GB for his help on naturalised plants; comments on spreading of plants.

Wants to quote GB on the names of species and varieties of Silene on which C. F. von Gärtner experimented.

Thinks GB will be disappointed in his book [Natural selection]. "It will be grievously too hypothetical."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 681
Summary:

For his studies on fertility of crosses, asks GB to mark a list of pairs of Cucubalus as to whether they are varieties of the same species, or distinct species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2189

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700a)
Summary:

Thanks GB for his answers [to 2184], which were as explicit as he expected. Cucubalus viscosus and italicus are extremely sterile together; all other forms extremely fertile. Other instances of infertility found by Gärtner.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13778

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676)
Summary:

Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-58-06-15

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 June 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 44
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2342

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 686)
Summary:

At Hooker’s request, sends his copy of Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)], "shamefully scribbled over".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1341

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 July 1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.127-128, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1340

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
8 August 1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.125-126, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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