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DCP-LETT-3948

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26–7 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 61
Summary:

Has done extensive plant hybridisation: strawberry, raspberry, Rhododendron.

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DCP-LETT-3958

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 62
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s experimental suggestions. Will count seeds of hybrid crosses.

Requests suggestions for Edinburgh Botanical Society expedition to British Columbia.

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DCP-LETT-3985

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 63
Summary:

On holiday; cannot answer CD’s questions.

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DCP-LETT-4105

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 64
Summary:

Has done Primula polyanthus experiment CD suggested.

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DCP-LETT-4126

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 65
Summary:

Bryanthus erectus, said by [D. D.?] Cunningham to be a hybrid, has been found wild in North America.

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DCP-LETT-4146

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 66
Summary:

CD is right on heterostyly in Primula. High praise. Has confirmed it with Primula polyanthus.

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DCP-LETT-4168

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 110: 24
Summary:

Sends sprig of Linum luteum corymbiflorum [?]. CD is right about its being dimorphic.

Will try some odd strawberry crosses this summer.

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DCP-LETT-5484

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 67
Summary:

Will find out identity of Robert Trail.

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DCP-LETT-5542

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 68, 68a
Summary:

Offers to send Benoît de Maillet’s Telliamed [1750].

Encloses a letter [16 May 1867] from John Anderson, a nurseryman, giving information on budding of blotched ash at the nursery.

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DCP-LETT-5549

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 69
Summary:

Has crossed pods of Arabis blepharophylla larger than normal ones.

Sends Telliamed as gift.

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DCP-LETT-5550

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 70
Summary:

Details of Arabis crosses. Seed-pods of A. blepharophylla and A. soyeri crosses are longer and wider than those of either species.

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DCP-LETT-5668

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 71
Summary:

Will send proto-Lamarckian pamphlet [1799] by Charles White, if CD wishes. It has a graduated scale of types from snipe to man.

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DCP-LETT-9466

From:
George S. Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 58
Summary:

Sends CD photograph of a "natural curiosity", a bear apparently "painted" with red iron on the face of a soft rock; has also sent copies to a few U. S. scientists.

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DCP-LETT-4071

From:
James Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 59
Summary:

Sends CD seeds of Cattleya crispa as requested [see Collected papers 2: 77–8].

Anticipates success for his attempts to cross orchids artificially. Has not had a single seed germinate from a pod that was not produced by artificial crossing.

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DCP-LETT-4215

From:
James Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 70: 181
Summary:

Sends a capsule of Dendrobium cretaceum. [See Orchids, 2d ed.]

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DCP-LETT-7407

From:
James Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 72
Summary:

Sends two books detailing a new medical method that will produce "a state of health & vigour on every occasion & in every instance" and is applicable to "the entire circle of animated nature" [William Hibbert, Important discovery. Hibbert’s new theory and practice of medicine (1870) and The new theory and practice of medicine (1870)]. The volumes apply to animals and man. Subsequent books will detail the method for insects and plants.

[Letter erroneously addressed to E. A. Darwin, and forwarded by EAD to CD.]

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DCP-LETT-1850

From:
Charles John (Carl Johann) Andersson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 85: A102
Summary:

European men choose partners for different reasons. Savages select more for bodily attraction than facial beauty.

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DCP-LETT-8971

From:
Bushell Anningson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 73
Summary:

Comments on the form and function of a muscle in the rectal region of animals.

Discusses the scratching action of dogs.

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DCP-LETT-7668

From:
George Frederick Ansell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 105–8
Summary:

Anecdotes about a dog and cat evidencing "a high order of instinct".

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DCP-LETT-4088

From:
David Thomas Ansted
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 74
Summary:

Is ready to make some arrangement to repay CD’s bond. Has written to F. Ransome to help arrange repayment and wants CD to write his opinion of a fair scheme.

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