From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24–5 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 42 (EH 88206025)
Summary:
Observation on morphology of Primula ovarium sent for DO’s use.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5
Summary:
Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.
Interested in reversion.
Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.
JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].
Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
24 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/53)
Summary:
Thanks for potatoes, which may be useful in crossing.
Germination of seeds in earth on partridge’s foot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
24 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B72–4
Summary:
Enthusiastic about JS’s work on Passiflora self-incompatibility.
CD quotes JS on rostellar pollen germination [in "Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 77–8]. H. Crüger attributes it to ants’ carrying stigmatic secretion to pollen.
Homomorphic cowslip seedlings are, sadly, showing variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Snow Harris
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
24 March 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/480, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Mar [1863?]
Source of text:
Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand
Summary:
Encloses a dialogue on species from a New Zealand newspaper [S. Butler’s First dialogue on evolution, from the Christchurch Press].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project