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From Hermann Crüger 23 April 1863
Summary
Observations on Catasetum.
Figs require insects in order to set seed.
| Author: | Hermann Crüger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 276, DAR 205.8: 68 (Letters) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4124 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] ). CD was interested in attempting to …
- … the Journal of Horticulture , [31 March 1863]; he also discussed them with John Scott (see …
- … 25 May [1863] . CD had suggested crossing experiments on begonias to John Scott (see …
- … John Scott, 19 December [1862] ), and may have asked Crüger about the fertility of begonias in Trinidad (see n. 1, above). For experimental notes on begonias dated 19 March and 6 April 1863, …
From Hermann Crüger 21 January 1864
Summary
Sends his MS of orchid paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for CD to send to an editor.
CD was right about Catasetum sexes.
Ficus experiments fail.
| Author: | Hermann Crüger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 278 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4394 |
From Hermann Crüger 23 February 1863
Summary
Will observe fertilisation of melastomads as CD requests.
Observations on fertilisation by ants.
Detailed observations on sexes in Catasetum, which were made before he received Orchids and which differ from CD’s findings.
| Author: | Hermann Crüger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4008 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Correspondent
| Crüger, Hermann | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
