To George Bentham 10 May [1869]
Summary
Sends a letter (and seeds) from Fritz Müller about a strange monstrous form of Begonia found wild in Brazil. Asks GB whether it is worth communicating to Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 10 May [1869] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 680) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6743 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 August 1869
Summary
Did not intend to imply that Hallett said variation stopped, but that it arrives at a point where further accumulation in direction sought is so slow as to result practically in fixity of type – but not absolute fixity.
Duke of Argyll has requested JDH to superintend publication of a flora of India. JDH thinks he [Argyll] is paying him off for his kick at natural theology.
Willy [Hooker] returning from New Zealand.
A unique character in Drosophyllum.
Sees no reason for CD to contribute to Ross and Faraday memorials.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Aug 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 27–9, DAR 100: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6862 |
From George Bentham 10 May 1869
Summary
Will have Fritz Müller’s letter ["On the modification of the stamens in a species of Begonia", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1871): 472–4] read at next Linnean Society meeting [read 3 June 1869].
Has given the seeds to Daniel Oliver.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6744 |
| letter | (3) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bentham, George | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
