To Linnean Society, President and Council [10 May 1869]
Summary
Referee report on paper by Richard Spruce on sacs in Melastoma [see 6690]. CD says RS’s suggestions that sacs are inherited is not supported and should be deleted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hellier Baily |
Date: | [10 May 1869] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6722 |
To Linnean Society, President and Council 10 May 1869
Summary
Recommends publication of Mrs Barber’s paper on a rare case of fertilisation of a plant by one kind of insect alone, with access of others prevented by a mechanical obstacle [Mary Elizabeth Barber, "On the fertilisation and dissemination of Duvernoia adhatodoides", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1869): 469–72].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hellier Baily |
Date: | 10 May 1869 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP.57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6740 |
To George Bentham 10 May [1869]
Summary
Sends a letter (and seeds) from Fritz Müller about a strange monstrous form of Begonia found wild in Brazil. Asks GB whether it is worth communicating to Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 10 May [1869] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 680) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6743 |
letter | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Baily, W. H. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |