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
From W. E. Darwin [13 March 1881]
Summary
Cannot write so is using Lily as secretary. Proud to be member of Geological Society. Sends observations of rhododendron leaves. Could not find piece of ploughed land. Has proved Josiah Wedgwood III’s death in North Eastern Railway Company. Taking care because head hurts.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Mar 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141F |
From W. E. Darwin [28 June 1863?]
Summary
Sends description of Chrysosplene, asks about glands.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 June 1863?] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3894F |
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 W. E. Darwin 11 October [1862]
Summary
Sends comments on Lythrum.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3756F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 18 October 1862, supplement, p. 2). William appears to have made a mistake in the days, and may have been looking at 16 September in the calendar, which was a Tuesday; 16 October was a Thursday. The International Exhibition opened in South Kensington, London on 1 May 1862 ( The Times , 2 May 1862, pp. 11– …
From W. E. Darwin [18 June 1866]
Summary
Sends some specimens of three kinds of buckthorn.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18 June 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5109 |
From William Erasmus Darwin [7 May – 11 June 1866]
Summary
Sends flowers of buckthorn [Rhamnus catharticus] collected on Isle of Wight.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 May – 11 June 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5108 |
From W. E. Darwin 1 August 1862
Summary
WED has been collecting Lythrum plants. Numerical proportions of the three forms.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3675 |
Matches: 1 hit
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 …
From W. E. Darwin 14 April [1864]
Summary
Observations on [length of style and length of filament and stigmas of] Pulmonaria.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: A68–74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4462 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11, letters from W. E. Darwin, 4 May [1863] and 8 May [1863] . CD discussed Pulmonaria angustifolia ’s variability of style and filament length in Forms of flowers , pp 105–6. William’s statement suggests that he may have included a drawing of the three forms of the flowers illustrating the relationship of the stamens to the pistils; this drawing has not been found, but may have been similar to drawings in the enclosure to his letter of 18 …
From W. E. Darwin 21 October [1862]
Summary
Effect on seed production of differences in distance between Lythrum plants.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162.1: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3777 |
Matches: 1 hit
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 W. E. Darwin 18 June [1864]
Summary
Doesn't think will be able to find Buckthorn. Sends reference from Revue de Deux Mondes. Is settled at the Bank.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4538F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 18 May 1864] ). Pyrus torminalis is a synonym of Torminalis glaberrima , the wild service tree. Revue des deux mondes , 1 March 1864, pp. 87–8, described recent observations by Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold on the generation of hermaphrodite bees; a similar report in Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 14 (1864): 158–9 was taken from Siebold 1864 . William had been lodging at 1 Carlton Terrace, Southampton (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
From W. E. Darwin [April–May 1865]
Summary
Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 18 June [1864] ); CD probably asked William to collect some during the flowering season in 1865. Horace Darwin went to Clapham Grammar School in spring 1865 after Emma had consulted his private tutor, George Varenne Reed , curate of Hayes, Kent ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [25 March 1865] (DAR 219.9: 23); Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Prior to this, Horace had been so ill for three years that he was able to study for only short periods with Reed ( Correspondence vol. 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, …
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 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 …
Document type
| letter | (18) |
Author
| Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, W. E. | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
