From Richard Spruce [1876–7]
Summary
Notes on various instances of dimorphic stamens.
| Author: | Richard Spruce |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1876–7] |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: B119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4372 |
From Richard Spruce to J. D. Hooker 29 July 1864
Summary
Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.
| Author: | Richard Spruce |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4577 |
From Richard Spruce [before 1 April 1869]
Summary
Sends CD a paper ["Ant-agency in plant structure", published in Spruce Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, ed. A. R. Wallace (1908)] on plant structures he believes are the work of insects; asks him to forward it to the Linnean Society [read 15 Apr 1869].
Writes of his support for the Origin, before which he had been much concerned by the delimitation of so-called species.
| Author: | Richard Spruce |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 Apr 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6690 |
From Richard Spruce 15 April 1869
Summary
Describes the floral structure and fertilisation of some melastomes;
discusses the direct agency of insects in modifying the structure of flowers.
| Author: | Richard Spruce |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6697 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Spruce, Richard | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
