From H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin [18 May 1864]
Summary
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [18 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4442 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … A41–3, 50, and DAR 111. See letter to W. E. Darwin, [14–17 May 1864] and n. 2. George …
- … the letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] , and the letters from W. …
- … are from 1866 (see, for example, letter to W. E. Darwin, 20 June [1866] ( Calendar no. …
- … E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] and [19 May 1864] . For CD’s query regarding Menyanthes , see the letter …
- … E. Darwin, [16 March 1864] , n. 3). Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) for Saturday 21 May 1864: ‘Boys from school’. James Mackintosh Wedgwood. See letter …
- … E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] . No recent reference to Rhamnus , the buckthorn, has been found in CD’s correspondence. In 1861, CD asked Joseph Dalton Hooker where he could purchase a specimen after Asa Gray wrote that a North American species ( Rhamnus lanceolatus ) was dimorphic (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter …
From Henrietta Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [16 March 1864]
Summary
CD wants WED to make some measurements on mid-styled [Primula sinensis] plants.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [16 Mar 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3633 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … between this letter and the letter from W. E. Darwin, [15 March 1864] (see n. 2, …
- … that of a long-styled one (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 22 March [1864] and n. 8; see …
- … E. Darwin, 22 March [1864] and n. 4). George Howard Darwin was planning to go home for the Easter holiday; in 1864, Easter Sunday fell on 27 March. In a letter …
- … E. Darwin, [15 March 1864] and nn. 4 and 9). CD later wrote, while discussing the equal-styled form of the plant, that the pistil length varied greatly, even in flowers on the same umbel ( ‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic and trimorphic plants’ , pp. 414–15, and Forms of flowers , p. 218). A letter …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, H. E. | |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
Date
| 1864 | (2) |
