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From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 166
Summary:

Sends specimens of Boronia.

Discusses the section on diclinous trees and herbs in CD’s new book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 411–13]. CD’s theory that diclinism preceded hermaphroditism seems confirmed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 167
Summary:

Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.

Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 January 1877
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
30 April 1877
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
27 June 1877
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 168
Summary:

Thanks CD for Forms of flowers. Comments on the chapter on cleistogamic flowers; offers some corrections.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 12 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 169
Summary:

Answers CD’s query on "bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 December 1877
Source of text:
Box 6, item 4, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Melbourne.Letter not found
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 170
Summary:

CD’s election to the French Academy delights GB. Nationalistic prejudices have at last been overcome; congratulates him on what is now universal adoption of his views.

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From:
George Bentham
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 February 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 11-12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project