To George Bentham 22 April [1863]
Summary
Disagrees with GB when he says he is not up to treating the whole subject [the present state of the species question]. He is especially equipped to handle the "great subject of affinities in relation to descent and independent creation".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 701) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4120 |
To George Bentham 7 July [1864]
Summary
Asks for names of plants mentioned in an article in Natural History Review ["South European Floras", n.s. 4 (1864): 369–84] so he can get seeds.
Also would like specimens of the two forms of Aegiphila.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 7 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 716) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4554 |
To George Bentham 27 September [1866]
Summary
His memory deceived him about GB’s statement [on propagation of thistles].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1866] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 705–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5220 |
To George Bentham 12 December 1876
Summary
Has examined the specimens of Boronia pinnata. No evidence of two distinct bodies of individuals.
Asks whether extra-American species of Aegiphila are heterostyled.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 720) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10714 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 11 December 1876 and n. 2, and Forms of flowers , pp. 285–6. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 December 1876 and n. 3. Aegiphila obdurata is a synonym of A. obducta . See letter to George Bentham, …
- … George Bentham, 10 December 1876 and n. 1; CD was trying to ascertain whether the species were heterostyled, and Bentham offered to send flowers in which the difference in stylar and staminal length was more apparent. Gray had sent CD flowers of Amsinckia spectabilis (the seaside fiddleneck) in 1861 ( Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Asa Gray, 11 …
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 |
