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DCP-LETT-9589F

From:
Leyson Lewis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 8 August 1874, p. 174
Summary:

Encloses specimen of a male hop with female flowers. It is the only peculiarity in the ground.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9590

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 [Aug] 1874
Source of text:
DAR 97: C56–8; DAR 210.2: 39
Summary:

Sends a draft of his letter to the editor of the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 587–9], answering Mivart’s charges. Encloses draft of CD’s letter to John Murray, urging publication of GHD’s defence, with George’s amendments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9592

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 or 7] Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 40
Summary:

Urges CD not to break with Murray even if he does not force the editor [of Q. Rev.] to insert GHD’s letter [in response to Mivart’s attack]. Murray may have a rule not to meddle with editor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-74-08-06a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Robert Ramsay
Date:
6 August 1874
Source of text:
F74/10081, unit 744, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-1450

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[6 August 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1630
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9591

From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 85
Summary:

Thanks for the monoecious hop. It was the first monstrosity he ever observed.

Contemplates an article in Gardeners’ Chronicle on the horticultural bearing of CD’s fertilisation work.

Will publish note forwarded by CD on a male hop with apparently female flowers (Gardeners’ Chronicle, 8 August 1874, p. 174). 

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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