To Federico Delpino 1 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks FD for seeds of Canna.
Still thinks it would be worth FD’s while looking at the fertilisation of Lotus; does not think Frank Darwin has exaggerated the novelty of the contrivance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
| Date: | 1 June [1870] |
| Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7213 |
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 …
To J. D. Hooker 8 March [1870]
Summary
Would like to see JDH become Sir J. H. Does not think JDH owes his position in science to his father.
Sends questions on Round Island – if JDH should write [to Henry Barkly?].
Has he read Federico Delpino on Marantaceae [Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 1 (1869): 293–206]?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 167–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7128 |
From Hermann Müller 8 March 1870
Summary
HM intends studying bees to find evidence supporting CD’s theories. His work has shown him there are problems in separating species from varieties, and has also revealed many surprising instances of variation in habits.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 296 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7130 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 May [1870]
Summary
Concern about futures of Willy [Hooker] and Horace [Darwin].
Henrietta [Darwin] back from Cannes.
CD has been to Cambridge to visit Frank [Darwin]. Saw Sedgwick, who took him to the [Geological] Museum and utterly exhausted him. Humiliating to be "killed by a man of 86".
Saw Alfred Newton.
CD has been working away on man, to much greater length (as usual) than expected,
and on cross- and self-fertilisation.
Does JDH happen to have seeds of Canna warszewiczii matured in some hot country?
Sympathises with JDH on Dawson’s paper – amusing that Dawson hashes up E. D. Cope’s and L. Agassiz’s views.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 May [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 169–72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7200 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … CD had asked Federico Delpino for seeds of Canna warszewiczii (now C. indica ; see letter …
- … Federico Delpino, 20 May 1870 and n. 3). CD has double scored both margins, as well as double underlining the words ‘matured in some hot country’. CD refers to Hooker’s critical report on John William Dawson’s Bakerian lecture of 1870 (see letter …
From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 25 January [1870]
Summary
Sends a translation of two sentences [on floral structure] as requested by Henrietta Darwin.
| Author: | Alice Bonham-Carter |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6576 |
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 …
From J. D. Hooker 10 July 1870
Summary
Sends seeds from R. L. Playfair in Algiers.
F. Delpino writes asking where M. A. Curtis has published physiological observations on Dionaea ["Enumeration of plants growing spontaneously around Wilmington, North Carolina", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 1 (1834–7): 82–140; see Insectivorous plants, p. 301 n.].
Talk with Duke of Argyll on CD’s and Wallace’s views on man.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 53–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 17a: 117) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7272 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Federico Delpino and Moses Ashley Curtis . Curtis had published a description of Dionaea muscipula in M. A. Curtis 1834 . In Insectivorous plants , p. 301 n. , CD noted that Curtis was the first person to describe the secretion of the glands in Dionaea and cited M. A. Curtis 1834 . Hooker refers to William Curtis and probably to Curtis’s Lectures on botany ( W. Curtis 1805 ). See letters …
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bonham-Carter, Alice | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Bonham-Carter, Alice | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
