From Alfred Newton 21 March 1863
Summary
Sends tuber of Chilean wild potato, requested through Hooker and P. L. Sclater.
Plans to exhibit a bird’s foot with a large ball of clay attached. This phenomenon supports CD on seed dispersal.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4054 |
From John Scott 21 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s answers on Passiflora
and Asa Gray review.
Has observed gradation of sterility in Oncidium species.
Has observed rostellar germination and fertilisation in Laelia. The latter was prevented in Bletia by covering the stigma with plaster of Paris.
Gongora atropurpurea capsules are swelling.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4055 |
3.21 Herbert Rose Barraud, photos
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< Back to Introduction The successful portrait photographer Herbert Rose Barraud, who had studios in London and Liverpool, photographed Darwin in the summer of 1881, in a group of four or so close-up head-and-shoulders portraits. This was probably at…
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- … < Back to Introduction The successful portrait photographer Herbert Rose Barraud, who …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … house’ (Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (1887): 321). Darwin started on his journey around the …
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
