From L. E. Becker 21 May [1863]
Summary
Has forwarded a box of Lychnis plants to CD; gives her observations on the variations in stamen length.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4173 |
From George Bentham 21 May 1863
Summary
Returns CD’s pamphlets.
Wishes CD would work out further what keeps certain species immutable for great periods.
Feels himself a convert, but cannot go all lengths with CD.
Feels some reviewers distort CD’s argument.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4172 |
From John Scott 21 May [1863]
Summary
Supports, in his orchid paper, CD’s view that sterility occurs at random [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].
Cannot get his Drosera paper published [abstract in Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 17 (1863): 317–18].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 181, DAR 177: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4174 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
