To W. B. Clarke 25 October [1861]
Summary
Thanks WBC for his account of glacial action in Australia. A mundane cooler period would throw a flood of light on geographical distribution. Has sketched a large MS on subject but does not know whether he will live to publish it.
Questions WBC on striated granite boulders.
Asks him to make a botanical experiment on insect fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Branwhite Clarke |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 139/36X, pp. 263–72) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3298 |
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- … Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Orchids : On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
From William Branwhite Clarke 16 January 1862
Summary
Answers CD’s questions on Australian flora, bees, geology.
| Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 172 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3392 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Clarke, W. B. (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Clarke, W. B. (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Clarke, W. B. (b) | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
