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JHC1112

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
23 May 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.17-18, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1114

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
2 June 1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.19-21, 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

JHC1115

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
7 July 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.22-24, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3227

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 698)
Summary:

Bentham has sent a damaged spurless Orchis pyramidalis; asks CL to send another. Fears they are irregular monsters. [See Orchids, pp. 47–8.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1116

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
18 August 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.25-27, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker 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

JHC1117

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
7 October 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.28-29, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3289

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 193)
Summary:

Thanks JL for identifying Catasetum saccatum.

Writes of his interest ("more than almost anything in my life") in orchids, but fears he is rash to publish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3299

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
25 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 194)
Summary:

Sends thanks for an informative letter;

would be grateful for any orchids; names some he would particularly like.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 195)
Summary:

CD is sending an orchid flower; asks JL to identify it.

Also asks if JL can spare a dried flower of another orchid (name forgotten) [which CD describes] so that he can try to trace its ducts or spiral vessels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1118

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
6 November 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.30-31, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker 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-3321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
16 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 196)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for many valuable dried specimens [of orchids]. Has been promised Catasetum and some Dendrobium by Mr Rucker; has written also to Lady Dorothy [Nevill].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
17 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 197)
Summary:

Lady Dorothy [Nevill] has written very obligingly and sent a lot of orchids.

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

DCP-LETT-3344

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
15 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 198)
Summary:

Thanks JL for a flower of Bolbophyllum, a genus that puzzles him.

Recent work has convinced him a number of orchids are male. Points out that JL [in The vegetable kingdom (1846), pp. 177–8] "accidentally misquoted" R. H. Schomburgk on this point.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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