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DCP-LETT-13756

From:
James L. Ambrose
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 159: 57
Summary:

Reminds CD of three cards JLA sent in February for CD to sign and date and write his good wishes on.

Contributor:
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DCP-REPO-8

Short:
American Academy
Long Name:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9257A

From:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 230: 37
Summary:

CD elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [See 9305.]

Contributor:
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DCP-REPO-9

Short:
Amherst
Long Name:
Robert Frost Library, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Contributor:
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DCP-REPO-11

Short:
Amsterdam Artis
Long Name:
Artis Library, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3924

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 60
Summary:

Thanks for "Two forms of Primula" [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Praise for Orchids.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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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