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FVM-60-07-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 July 1860
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1345

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.135, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697)
Summary:

Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 692)
Summary:

Thanks GB for specimen [of Orchis pyramidalis].

Discusses a great difficulty with orchids: "Insects visit several species which never secrete an atom of honey." [See Orchids, p. 44ff.] Does GB know whether nectar is ever secreted and reabsorbed promptly?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1346

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 September 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.136, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-M61-11-01

From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 November 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, GEB1/9 George Bentham Papers, Correspondence, vol. 9, Sabine-Sykes
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
9 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 693)
Summary:

Thanks GB for arranging for his paper ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63] and for his photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3328

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 688
Summary:

Requests more precise details about Oxalis, to which GB referred in his remarks on Primula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 689)
Summary:

Would prefer to have Primula paper published in the Linnean Society’s Journal rather than Transactions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3335

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 691)
Summary:

Thanks GB for valuable letter [3331].

Will follow his suggestion about violets.

Discusses differences between Thymus and Primula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-12-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 December 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Colonial Floras, Kewensia, K9/655.59, ff. 59-63
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1348

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1862?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.138, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Undated letter of four pages over 1 folio.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-62-01-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 January 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 49-52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-01-25b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
25 January 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70, f. 53
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3437

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 694–6)
Summary:

Asks GB’s help to clear up discrepancies between his and John Lindley’s observations on pollination of Melastomataceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-02-20c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
20 February 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 54-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-03-25d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
25 March 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3488

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 699)
Summary:

Will try to come to Linnean Society to read his paper, but has been "extra headachy". Fears his paper ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70] will not be worth Lindley’s attendance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-04-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
19 April 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 57
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-05-23

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
23 May 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 58
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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