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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14 April 1868?
Source of text:
Patrick Pollak Rare Books (bookseller)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 April 1868
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
20 April 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew. Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70. f.1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 Apr 1868
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 703–4)
Summary:
Is not surprised that GB cannot digest Pangenesis, but it has been an immense relief to CD in tying together large classes of facts.
Sends names of men writing on crossing of plants. Criticises some French observations. Praises Hildebrand and Federico Delpino.
Sends pamphlets.
CD is experimenting on a large scale on difference in plants raised from self-fertilised and crossed seeds.
F. Hildebrand has produced a graft-hybrid which seems to lend important support to Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 April 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 315-16
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
