From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[2–3 Sept 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 103
Summary:
Asks WED to send some specimens [of Lythrum?].
[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED on verso.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
2 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 24)
Summary:
Can CCB get Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds?
Hottonia splendidly dimorphic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.8; Reel 10
Summary:
Sorry to hear about JH's pain. Encloses notes from GA's testimony to parliamentary committee investigating changing standards of weights and measures. GA's work continues on 'veritable precessions.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Murray
Date:
2nd Sept. 1862
Source of text:
John Murray Archive, Ms. 41214, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
2 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263
Summary:
Hive-bees and clover.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
2 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 35 (EH 88206018)
Summary:
Exciting work on trimorphism in Lythrum salicaria. Requests Lythraceae from Kew.
Wants to know of plants other than Melastoma and Lythrum with coloured pollen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project