From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 July – 23 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 525
Summary:
Account of Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 6
Summary:
Asks for a note to the Geological Society, since the museum did not have the book Carlyle wanted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 July [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (69)
Summary:
Thanks for notes on Cypripedium and Platanthera hookeri, which is really beautiful and quite a new case.
His son, George, has been observing the insect fertilisation of orchids.
CD has been crossing peloric flowers of Pelargonium, but doubts he will get good results with respect to sterility of hybrids.
Rhexia glandulosa does not appear to be dimorphic. Lythrum is trimorphic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 July 62.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/28, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.319
Summary:
Sends letter from Mr. Rüppell, who wishes to get a copy of R.A.S. medal.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project