To T. H. Farrer 28 May [1870]
Summary
Fertilisation of barberries.
Passiflora.
Is continuing his experiments on the comparative growth of crossed and self-fertilised plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 28 May [1870] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7205 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to Federico Delpino’s remarks on Johan Severin Axell’s monograph, Axell 1869 (see letter …
- … Federico Delpino, 20 May 1870 and n. 7). CD had lent his copy to Farrer (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter …
- … Federico Delpino, 14 October 1869 and n. 8). CD also refers to George Howard Darwin . CD refers to his research for Cross and self fertilisation. The last known visit by Farrer to Down House was sometime shortly before 9 October 1869 (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter …
From T. H. Farrer 31 December 1876
Summary
Much pleased with CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Is struck by width and caution of his generalisations and by the application of experiment to processes of life hitherto merely observed.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10742 |
From T. H. Farrer 9 October 1869
Summary
Federico Delpino’s book has very nearly all that THF has found and a great deal more.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6929 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 October [1869]
Summary
Sympathises with THF at being forestalled by Delpino, but urges him to publish confirmation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1869] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6930 |
To T. H. Farrer 13 October [1872]
Summary
THF’s article in Nature ["The fertilisation of a few papilionaceous flowers", 6 (1872): 478–80, 498–501] is extremely good.
Suspects he now has answer to why common peas and sweetpeas hardly ever intercross, a point which half drove CD mad for years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8557 |
From T. H. Farrer 13 October 1869
Summary
On the fertilisation of Tacsonia and Passiflora.
Encloses a poem, "The Biological Teleologist", written after reading Delpino.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6935 |
From T. H. Farrer 27 October 1870
Summary
Returning CD’s books.
Sympathises with women’s lot in life.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7351 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Federico Delpino’s that Farrer borrowed from CD may have included Delpino 1867b , 1867c, 1869a, and the first part of Delpino 1868–74 (see Marginalia 1: 191–2). The first three are in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL, and the last is in the Darwin Library–CUL. Farrer also maintained a house at Gloucester Terrace, Regent’s Park (see letter …
| letter | (7) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Farrer, T. H. |
