From Asa Gray 21 November 1870
Summary
Reports case of apparent incipient dimorphism. Observations on variations in flower structure, especially style length, within species of Polemoniaceae.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B70–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7378 |
From Robert Swinhoe 2 February 1870
Summary
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 333 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7095 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Galton enquired in Notes and Queries on China and Japan 2 (1868): …
- … 1868, and Galton cited it in Galton 1869 , p. 335. No other reply has been found. Swinhoe refers to his paper, ‘On a new rat from Formosa’, first published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for 1864 ( Swinhoe 1864 ). There are no offprints of the paper in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. According to Emma …
From Alfred Newton 11 February 1870
Summary
Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.
He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7103 |
From Federico Delpino 20 May 1870
Summary
Responds to CD’s request for Canna seeds.
Studying dichogamy in Lotus. Describes mechanism that pumps pollen on to a visiting bee. Corrects Axell on Lotus.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7196 |
Matches: 1 hit
To Alfred Newton 9 February [1870]
Summary
Was gratified "beyond measure" by AN’s comments on his pigeon chapter [in Variation] in the [Zoological] Record [5 (1868): 94–6]. AN is the first man capable of forming a judgment who seems to have thought anything of this part.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7100 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Newton, Alfred | (2) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
