To W. E. Darwin 19 [June 1866]
Summary
Different forms of flowers of Rhamnus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 19 [June 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5125 |
Matches: 2 hits
To W. E. Darwin 22 June [1866]
Summary
Polymorphism in Rhamnus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 22 June [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5131 |
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [17 May 1864]
Summary
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [17 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4498F |
From F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin 11 March 1871
Summary
In response to queries on expression, which WED had asked on CD’s behalf, reports on shrugging and pouting observed in his children.
| Author: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7573 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 th . 1871 My dear Darwin, I am very sorry I missed you today— M rs . de Chaumont was too unwell to see anybody having been all the morning in bed with a very bad cold— I intended to have answered your former notes but waited until I could supply positive information, of which I am sorry to say I have little to offer— First with regard to the shrug :— Our eldest child, Helen, aged 4 years, 16 th . December last—shrugged her shoulders at the age of between 16 and 18 …
To W. E. Darwin 14 May [1864]
Summary
Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4495 |
To W. E. Darwin [20 June 1858]
Summary
Relates domestic affairs.
Thinks his bees’ cell theory will hold good.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [20 June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2267 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 18 June 1858. ‘Quinsy’ was a popular term for tonsilitis. Emma Darwin’s diary records that Ellen Harriet Tollet , an old friend of the Wedgwood and Darwin families, and Robert Mackintosh, Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood’s brother, arrived at Down on 17 June 1858. The new extension, consisting of a downstairs room and upstairs bedroom, was begun in September 1857 ( Correspondence vol. 6, letters to W. E. Darwin, [before 11 …
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: 1 hit
- … 18 May [1864] and [19 May 1864] . For CD’s query regarding Menyanthes , see the letter from Emma Darwin to W. 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 Asa Gray, 11 …
To W. E. Darwin 3 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks WED for measuring cowslip pollen. Sends dimorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A8, A10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4480 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 18 April 1864, and [30 April 1864], and nn. 2, 3, and 5, below). William used a camera lucida to make many of his botanical drawings (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 and 5 August 1862 ). CD had earlier considered the length of anthers as an indication of dimorphism (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] , and Correspondence vol. 11, …
Document type
| letter | (8) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
